Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills and other promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It has an abandoned battleship, not a locomotive, as its perpetually in-motion, out-of-control set, but Buster Keaton’s 1924 feature The Navigator — the last occasion on which he shared directing credit before going full auteur for the …
Highly Recommended Pocahontas Blu-ray Review Disney’s Pocahontas may not be the mostfaithful telling of the story imaginable (for some that follow history”to thebooks” and expect filmmakers to entirely follow suite that might evenseem a gigantic understatement) but it is acreative, visionary, and beautiful film about the discovery of the “newworld”in America by Spanish explorers and the …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “Gee, it’s funny how lonesome a fella can be, especially with a million people around him.” The new Criterion Blu-ray edition of Paul Fejos’s splendiferous 1928 color/B&W, silent/talkie Hollywood hybrid Lonesome is the kind of thing that makes you …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by the prolific Wolfgang Reitherman for Disney and released in 1970, The Aristocats has lost none of its charm in the forty-two years that it’s been around. The humor still works, the story still grans you and the music still swings. With the film now released on Blu-ray for the first time, established fans of the picture can enjoy it in the best possible …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended It’s hard to watch a movie like Harvey (1950) without a big smile on your face, or at least a little smirk. Adapted from the successful play by Mary Chase, this charming comedy follows the amiable Elwood P
Recommended Lewis returns to Blu-ray with four more movie-length episodes. An ITV co-production with PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery , it airs on the public television network in a slightly different form
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.