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Recommended Sailor Moon – Season 1 Part 1 Blu-ray Review Now available on home media after a longout-of-print statusin the United States, Sailor Moon – Season 1, Part 1 presents thefirst 23 episodes of the famously beloved anime series across asix-disc Blu-ray/DVDcombo pack release. The series follows the adventures of Usagi Tsukino(SailorMoon) as she discovers that she has special magical …
Rent It The Twilight Samurai Blu-ray Review The Twilight Samurai is in many regards athrowbackto the bygone era of classic samurai films. The story it is telling isone thatis more focused on character and the journey that is taken than it ison thesword fighting or samurai code. Directed by Yoji Yamada ( The HiddenBlade ),the film centers upon telling the story of Seibei Iguchi (HiroyukiSanada …
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of The Wind Rises . The Movie: Or, Jir Dreams of Flying : The Wind Rises feels especially elegiac as it will likely be the last film written and directed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki (who announced his retirement shortly before its release)
Rent It Step Up All In Blu-ray Review The fifth entry in the Step Up film series(whichdebuted in 2006), Step Up All In reunites some of the fanfavoritescharacters and brings characters together from several of the StepUp films into the new storyline. This entry establishes itself in such away thatreturning fans can enjoy revisiting their favorite characters and newaudiencemembers can still …
Recommended Please Note: The screen shots accompanying this review come from the DVD portion of White Christmas: Diamond Anniversary Edition. The Movie: With Bing Crosby crooning Irving Berlin songs in proto-psychedelic Technicolor, White Christmas is the cinematic equivalent of a holiday fruitcake stuffed with nuts and marischino cherries dyed in festive red and green
Highly Recommended Alive Inside Blu-ray Review Alive Inside is one of the year's mostimportant documentaries.The idea of the film began when filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett wasinvitedto see some of the work being done with elder-care individuals at aretirementhome by computer-whiz Dan Cohen, himself an outsider to the medicalfield andthe practices carried out by the nation's (and largely the …
Recommended Please Note: The screen shots accompanying this review come from the DVD portion of Cinerama's Search for Paradise. The Movie: The kitschy travelogue Search for Paradise whisks viewers off on a distant journey involving dangerous rocky mountain pathways, turbulent river rapids, a spectacular royal coronation, and, uh, lots of military aircraft. This 1957 release was the fourth film …