The Descendants (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended The Descendants Blu-ray Review The Descendants is a tale about families, the necessity of love, and the determinationto be capable of moving forward.
April 8, 2012
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Highly Recommended The Descendants Blu-ray Review The Descendants is a tale about families, the necessity of love, and the determinationto be capable of moving forward.
Recommended Wizards Blu-ray Review RalphBakshi certainly seemed to recognize unique ways to createsci-fi/fantasyworlds in animation. Wizards doesn’t necessarilyseem reminiscent of anything else. Perhaps other Ralph Bakshi movies?Even thatdoesn’t seem to be a positive given because of how this particularfilmmakingexperience was aimed at appealing more directly to families and a wideraudiencethan …
Highly Recommended One of the great things about DVD and now the Blu-ray format is how, occasionally, heretofore long-unseen movies turn out to be a lot better than their terrible reputations would suggest, diamonds in the rough, as it were. This proved true, for instance, when in 2006 Fox released to DVD their Laurel & Hardy movies from the 1940s, pictures long regarded as unfunny, painful …
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Chasing Madoff This documentary focuses on the long and futile attempt by whistle-blower Harry Markopolos to alert authorities to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
(PG-13, 105 minutes, The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay): Meryl Streep disappears so uncannily into former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher that her performance overpowers the movie. Filmgoers who come to see Streep in action will see only that: an actress delivering a bravura performance but not a thoughtful, provocative portrait of one of the most consequential figures of the 20th century …
Recommended The Movie: One of a seemingly endless barrage of adaptations of the Marquis de Sade’s Justine , Chris Boger’s 1977 film, also known as Cruel Passion (which is the title that appears on the print used for this Blu-ray release), takes a mature and almost subdued approach to this well known tale of perversions and sexual excess. The film follows two sisters, Justine (Koo Stark) and …
It all started with Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report . I left the theater feeling “meh†towards it. It was the first time ever for me feeling that way when it came to Spielberg and his work.
Sade have set a May 22nd release date for their live DVD/CD and Blu-ray for, “Bring Me Home – Live 2011”.
Reviewed by Peter Hartlaub and Mick LaSalle RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) A Dangerous Method In this latest from David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen is a compelling and twisted Freud, Michael Fassbender is a somewhat…
LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/–Â RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT – News) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company’s Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials …