RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This is a Blu-ray upgrade to the Criterion Collection’s 2006 release, with a new high-def transfer and the same wealth of extras (including Wim Wenders’ feature-length Ozu tribute documentary,…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Lon Chaney was the most popular male movie star of the second half of the 1920s. Think about that: In an era that valued youth and jazz, the most popular actor in the country was a middle-aged…
The exciting BBC series “Sherlock” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. Season two can be discovered on DVD and Blu-ray starting Tuesday, May 22.
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen takes flight once again in “Red Tails,” focusing on their time in Europe fighting in World War II. The war film takes off on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, May 22.
Cannes is not featuring any female directors this year but it does love women in film.
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Albert Nobbs Glenn Close plays a Victorian woman who goes through life disguised as a man in this interesting but dull and unsettling film. Albert is too weird and predatory not to seem repellent,…
Dark Shadows A funny update starring Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins, this Tim Burton film juggles a variety of comic conceits with success. Here and there it drags, but for the most part this is a lot of…
A new breed of Westerns is evolving on cable television, the latest being “Hell on Wheels” on AMC. Season one recently steamed onto DVD and Blu-ray.
Silly, bombastic ‘Battleship’ deserves to take plenty of hits
Mothers, keep your children far away from the horror thriller “Mother’s Day.” Starring Rebecca De Mornay, the violent remake is invading on DVD and Blu-ray.