In Suzanne Collinsâ book Mockingjay , Cressida, the documentary filmmaker who works with Katniss on anti-Capitol propaganda, is physically described as âa woman with a shaved head tattooed with green vines.â Though that might sound pretty clean-cut (pun intended), Mockingjay Part 1…
“Working Girl” (1988, Fox, R, $16), now on Blu-ray, is the deliciously entertaining Cinderella story of a Staten Island secretary who fakes it until she can make it, and winds up with Prince Charming and the job of her dreams.
Review by John Delia One of the funniest films released last year Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day has come
Rent It THE FILM: I guess 2013's V/H/S 2 represents the peak on this cinematic bell curve, as the original and this second sequel, V/H/S: Viral , are about on par with one another.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Steve James crafts another powerful, warts-and-all documentary, this time about longtime Chicago movie critic Roger Ebert. The Hoop Dreams director pulls from Ebert's own memoir, and, fittingly, Martin Scorsese is an executive producer. Deep into production before Ebert's final bout with cancer, Life Itself is a triumphant portrait of an influential journalist and …
Recommended Though a majority of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's films share similar themes and his trademark “slow and steady” visual approach to storytelling, An Autumn Afternoon (1962) has the most in common with his 1949 drama Late Spring . Both feature a widowed patriarch living at home with a fully-grown, unmarried daughter who is prodded into seeking a husband
Recommended The Film: Unless you're throttling a spaceship towards the gravitational pull of a celestial boy, the methods in which time travel occur in fiction will always seem more magical than scientific, no matter if it's rudimentary wired-up cockpits powered by technobabble or tricked-out Delorians and blue telephone booths. What matters is how the time-travel itself gets used, whether for …
Recommended The Movie: During an interview featured in one of the extras for A Day in the Country, Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner points out how much of an odd choice this wistful and nostalgic ode to the simple pleasures of life was for the director at the time. Renoir shot A Day in the Country, adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant, in the middle of a career and personal life …
Despite the arrival of cloud storage and the ever-decreasing price of data storage, optical media still have a place in computing, especially when it comes to storing bytes in a safe place for a long time. Verbatim has unveiled a new 100GB Blu-ray optical disc, the M-DISC, which promises to store data for as long as 2000 years.
Review by John Delia Entering the Blu-ray home video market after appearing on the screen in 1961, the animated feature 101 Dalmatians has been