One of this summer’s most talked about and discussed films hits Blu-ray this week, as does one of it’s biggest misfires, and Warner Brothers unloads some classic movies on to Blu-ray.
Last week, Christmas came early for many of the Maniacs on this site. Universal Studios, in celebration of their 100th anniversary, released the Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection. For all those horror aficionados, this box set was long in coming.
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Skip It The Courier is a tired thriller, filled with tired actors playing tired characters, wrapped up in a tired story. There is exactly one scene in the movie where anyone looks like they’re making an effort, and it’s the only scene in the movie that’s memorable or interesting
Recommended The Movie: Jane Fonda playing a grandmother? Having watched mostly her older films like Barbarella and Fun With Dick & Jane in recent years, it’s a bit of a shock to see her as an “old person” in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding
‘Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live In Budapest’ will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, 2CD+DVD Deluxe Edition and a 2CD+Blu-ray Deluxe Edition on November 6
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: There may not be an active filmmaker whose work is so immediately recognizable as Wes Anderson’s. You can walk into a room or switch over in the middle of one of his films and place it within seconds: the intricate production design, the symmetrical compositions, and the elegant tracking shots, lovingly panning from room and room and tableaux to tableaux.
Highly Recommended The third of four “Three Mesquiteers” Westerns released to Blu-ray by Olive Films, and the fifth of eight such films co-starring John Wayne, The Night Riders (1939) is extremely entertaining, though entirely in the B-Western sense.
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Rent It The Movie: The first feature film directed by Joe Dante in some time, 2009’s The Hole makes a slightly late debut on Blu-ray, but better late than never. If this isn’t his best movie, and few would argue that it is, it’s still a good time at the movies, a nice mix of the type of fantasy and light horror that have made a lot of Dante’s earlier pictures so much fun – but it doesn’t offer …