Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The 1941 winner of the Best Picture Oscar, How Green Was My Valley is one of John Ford’s nostalgic tributes to a foreign land and a foreign time. Narrated from a modern vantage point, but set in a Welsh mining village at the outset of the 20th Century, the …
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This week could bring the release of this upcoming weekend’s big Oscar winner. Yes, Argo is hitting Blu-ray this week along with Game of Thrones and number of other pretty cool releases.
This week the DVD Shopping is going to take a bit of a departure and touch on a “fringe†movie instead of a straight up genre pic. Argo does have some spy elements and a Sci-Fi pic is involved with the plot
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare to find a film as sincere and assured in its emotional intent as Ann Hui’s celebrated A Simple Life
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Rarely does a modern horror film fill me with the kind of dread that makes pedestrian scenes feel ripe for a jolt
Woody Allen’s latest very much feels like a bunch of half-baked ideas the auteur has been working on since he started out: a mortician who can only sing opera sublimely in the shower, an ordinary man (Roberto Benigni) who is thrust into the spotlight for no good reason.
“You’re an activist not a supplicant,†maintains Alessandro Nivola’s sleazy intellectual, Roland, to his idealistic teen daughter, Ginger (Elle Fanning, convincing), in Sally Potter’s disjointed but good-looking portrait of teenage hormones and family dysfunction in early 1960s London.
Disney’s “Peter Pan” debuts at No. 1 on the Blu-ray sales list for week ending Feb. 10.
Recommended Throughout his career—and increasingly since 1999’s Magnolia —director Paul Thomas Anderson’s films have been hard to pin down. 2007’s striking There Will Be Blood (reviewed on Blu-Ray and DVD ) depicted a self-absorbed man and his pursuit of petroleum and profit