Using your Blu-ray player to stream online video
You might think in these days of streaming video, your Blu-ray player is out of date – but Think again!
October 23, 2014
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You might think in these days of streaming video, your Blu-ray player is out of date – but Think again!
Recommended The Movie: Kingpin was originally released in 1996, between the Farrelly brothers' two biggest box office hits as comedy directors, their debut film Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary . To date, Kingpin remains their lowest grossing film in theaters (ignoring their contribution to Osmosis Jones , which isn't hard to do). And yet, Kingpin is easily one of the duo's best …
Rent It I first saw Sergio Corbucci's Compa eros (1970) when it was part of a five-movie DVD boxed set called Once Upon a Time in Italy , released ten-odd years ago by Anchor Bay. Despite its reputation among Spaghetti Western buffs, I found the picture less interesting than three of the other titles in the set ( A Bullet for the General , Four of the Apocalypse , and Keoma ).
Recommended The Movie: The third and final part of Sion Sono's so-called Hate Trilogy (preceded by the film's Love Exposure and then Cold Fish , both of which are definitely recommended for fans of this director's outsider filmography), 2011's Guilty of Romance debuts on Blu-ray in North America for the first time thanks to Olive Films.
Recommended The Movie: Set in a Japan recently ravaged by a powerful Tsunami, Sion Sono's 2011 picture Himizu takes place in a country that has essentially lost a war, not with another country, but with mother nature. Large portions of the populace have lost their homes and in tents and while what's left of the army and police forces do what they can to maintain law and order, as it stands the …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: During a vintage interview included on this essential Blu-Ray release of La Dolce Vita from Criterion, director Federico Fellini confesses that he hates talking about his own work in detail, because he thinks the filmmaker should be the last person to talk about their creation. Once the work is out there, he believes that it belongs to the audience from that …
Recommended Based on the 1982 French graphic novel Transperceneige , director Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2013) serves up a thinly-veiled slice of post-apocalyptic social commentary. After a failed attempt to combat global warming causes a new Ice Age, humanity's survivors are placed inside a massive train segmented by social classes
Sitting beside a fireplace with stockings hung by the chimney with care, Trace Adkins announced last week that he will be releasing a holiday DVD called The Christmas Show
The prominence of the Broadway production led, finally, to the screen. Director Ryan Murphy and Kramer joined in 2014 for “The Normal Heart” [HBO Films], with Mark Ruffalo , Matt Bomer , Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina and Julia Roberts .
An Auckland based DVD store and its manager have been fined $2000 plus $260 court costs for the sale of non-compliant unlabelled Asian sourced DVDs.