Highly Recommended The Movie: Hitting Blu-ray a few short weeks before the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, director Stuart Cooper’s 1975 drama Overlord , which covers the lead-up to that famous battle at Normandy, is decidedly unsentimental, somewhat anticlimactic, yet undeniably beautiful. Starting with deftly edited archive footage from England’s Imperial War Museum, Cooper weaves in newly-shot …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The production design, effects and camera work in Director Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad are top notch; the narrative and characters, less so
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: World War II actioner, psychological drama, buddy flick, progressive if overly earnest “message picture” – 1949’s Home of the Brave juggles several things at once. It hasn’t lost its potency, however, in dealing with racism-induced guilt and shame …
Lionsgate announced today that Divergent will be released on Digital HD on July 22 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, VOD and Pay-Per-View on August 5. Here’s the announcement followed by the home entertainment trailer.
Highly Recommended Il Sorpasso Blu Review Il Sorpasso is regarded as one of thefinest of allItalian comedies. Released in 1962, the film was first put intotheaters withlittle fanfare and box-office expectations. The film quickly became anincredible success based on audiences reactions and word of mouth thatthe filmwas something special
Coming to Movie Theatres Followed by TV and DVD This Holiday Season – Award-winning comedy returns as feature film and national multi-screen event rolling out to Cineplex Theatres across Canada , followed …
Recommended The Movie: Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the character’s first appearance (way back in John Byrne’s Next Men #21 unless you count San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 , which was Dark Horse Comics’ comic con exclusive released in August 1993), Anchor Bay has reissued the two animated features that were first unleased on Blu-ray in 2007. This seems, however, to basically be the …
There’s some very exciting home video news for horror fans this morning as Anchor Bay and Scream Factory have revealed plans for “Halloween: The Complete Collection” to hit Blu-ray September 23. That’s every single film in the slasher franchise (including the Rob Zombie remake and its sequel), spread across 15 discs! Full press release details follow:
Recommended The Movie: As an honorably discharged soldier from approximately a gajillion years ago, I have a soft spot for war films released before and since my time in the service.
Recommended One of a series of Blu-ray double-feature releases from Sony, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) are the last Japanese-made Godzilla movies to date, possibly ever