Recommended You don’t have to be staring down retirement to enjoy Jon Turtletaub’s Last Vegas (2013), especially if you’re a fan of the talent involved. Its most notable strength is the participation of Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline as the center of its ensemble cast; though none of this quartet had ever worked with one another, they carry the weight of this …
DVD Talk Collector Series Conventional wisdom used to be that the only good Spaghetti Westerns were the five directed by Sergio Leone: Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and Duck, You Sucker! (1971). But over the last several decades, film historians including Sir Christopher Frayling began …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Hail Mary is one of two films directed by Jean-Luc Godard that the Cohen Media Group is releasing in beautiful new Blu-ray editions (the other is For Ever Mozart ). Originally released in 1985, Hail Mary is considered part of Godard’s “second Golden Age,” where his experimentation and intellectualism managed to not alienate wider audiences and he managed to have …
Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video.
Recommended Although I hadn’t seen any episodes of “Duck Dynasty” prior to receiving this Blu-Ray set, I couldn’t get through too many days without hearing its name or seeing pictures of one or more of the bearded guys associated with it. Lionsgate has now released a mammoth six-disc Blu-Ray collection of the show’s first 41 episodes, more than enough to get anyone acquainted with it
Recommended Although I hadn’t seen any episodes of “Duck Dynasty” prior to receiving this Blu-Ray set, I couldn’t get through too many days without hearing its name or seeing pictures of one or more of the bearded guys associated with it. Lionsgate has now released a mammoth six-disc Blu-Ray collection of the show’s first 41 episodes, more than enough to get anyone acquainted with it. My first …
Owners of Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4 consoles continue to report multiple hardware problems. Unlike the PS3, which is considered the best Blu-ray player yet launched, the PS4 doesn’t offer a great Blu-ray experience.
Highly Recommended Director Richard Lester’s Royal Flash (1975) was a relatively late-comer to DVD, being released by Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment in 2007, full of extra features and a fine video transfer, but all but dumped onto the marketplace with little-to-no fanfare.