Playing for Keeps (Blu-ray)
Skip It The Movie: There was some local interest among my friends regarding the film Playing for Keeps .
February 23, 2013
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Skip It The Movie: There was some local interest among my friends regarding the film Playing for Keeps .
Recommended The Movie: In the early 80s, divorce suddenly became a big subject in the media, particularly when it involved couples with kids. Irreconcilable Differences , released in 1984, addressed not only the divorce of parents but of their daughter filing for legal divorce, or emancipation, from them as well. The movie begins with what was the biggest moment in the trailer and other …
Highly Recommended THE FILM I must confess to never having seen director Joseph Losey’s mid-career debacles (or masterpieces; depends on whose take you listen to) Modesty Blaise (1966) or Boom! (1968), but judging from what I’ve read and heard regarding those films, Losey — an expat German who fled the Nazis and made films in the U.S., the U.K., and France over a long and unusually varied …
Recommended Released between 2009 and 2012, five animated adaptations of Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel’s most celebrated books made their Blu-Ray debut courtesy of Warner Bros., who also did wonderful restoration work on Charles Schulz’ beloved Peanuts animated shorts
Recommended Like Network and several other films before and since, Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man (1987) seemed far-fetched decades ago…but it hits a little closer to home these days.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The 1941 winner of the Best Picture Oscar, How Green Was My Valley is one of John Ford’s nostalgic tributes to a foreign land and a foreign time. Narrated from a modern vantage point, but set in a Welsh mining village at the outset of the 20th Century, the …
Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. When I first watched The Hour sometime back, I actually thought it was a one-off. It seemed fairly self-contained and complete as a miniseries.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare to find a film as sincere and assured in its emotional intent as Ann Hui’s celebrated A Simple Life
Rent It In 10 Words or Less Back on Blu, empty on extras Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Monster Squad , Team-Up Flicks, ’80s movies Likes: Kids Adventures, Stan Winston effects Dislikes: Rights issues Hates: Missing out on existing extras The Story So Far… The Monster Squad is an underrated late-’80s action/horror-comedy pitting a team of kid horror-movie buffs against the classic Universal …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Rarely does a modern horror film fill me with the kind of dread that makes pedestrian scenes feel ripe for a jolt