May 27, 2014
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Highly Recommended Flying Tigers (1942) is an impressive, still exciting example of early wartime propaganda. John Wayne, in his first war movie, stars as the leader of a squadron of mercenary pilots fighting the Japanese in the days before (and, late in the film, after) the attack on Pearl Harbor in a picture brimming with war movie clich s.
Kevin Costner was one of the biggest box office draws throughout the 1980s and 1990s but recent years have not been as kind. A string of poor films (Rumor Has it, Mr. Brooks, 3000 Miles to Graceland…
Highly Recommended The Movie: Growing up in a household with one parent who was an unabashed John Wayne fan, I grew to appreciate his work but in different ways. I have grown to realize that Wayne was a bit of an underrated actor in his time, and with Red River this was one of (if not) his first turn from preconceived notions on his character and how he turns from upstanding protagonist to a …
Also on July 15: Gurren Lagann movie Blu-ray set & Silver Spoon DVDs
Highly Recommended Joseph Anthony’s compelling Tomorrow (1972) is by no means a comfortable film, or at least it’s not supposed to be. Long stretches of silence are occasionally broken by awkward, thickly-accented dialogue. Shooting locations are rustic, run-down and lonely
Highly Recommended The Movie: Hitting Blu-ray a few short weeks before the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, director Stuart Cooper’s 1975 drama Overlord , which covers the lead-up to that famous battle at Normandy, is decidedly unsentimental, somewhat anticlimactic, yet undeniably beautiful. Starting with deftly edited archive footage from England’s Imperial War Museum, Cooper weaves in newly-shot …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The production design, effects and camera work in Director Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad are top notch; the narrative and characters, less so
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: World War II actioner, psychological drama, buddy flick, progressive if overly earnest “message picture” – 1949’s Home of the Brave juggles several things at once. It hasn’t lost its potency, however, in dealing with racism-induced guilt and shame …
Lionsgate announced today that Divergent will be released on Digital HD on July 22 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, VOD and Pay-Per-View on August 5. Here’s the announcement followed by the home entertainment trailer.