Some Days Are Better Than Others (Blu-ray)
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
April 22, 2012
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Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It As part of its 100th Anniversary Collector’s Series of Blu-ray titles, Universal is releasing Buck Privates (1941), Abbott & Costello’s first starring feature, and the movie that their fueled their rocket-like ascent to the top of the box office heap in the early-1940s. Spurred by the peacetime draft in the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Buck Privates is a truly …
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The word “infrastructure” most often hits our ears when tossed off by one politician or another, but to what extent do we grasp what our cities’, states’, or nation’s infrastructure actually is — what it looks like, how it came to be, how …
Highly Recommended The interesting, anomalous science fiction horror film The Asphyx (1973), a picture unjustly all but forgotten until recently, was the product of several converging trends.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by HBO Films, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I have never seen the groundbreaking 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family , but I have long been aware of it; it’s often cited as the first step American TV took toward the televised “reality” that’s proven as enduringly popular as it …
Recommended The Show: Â I’ve always been a fan of harem anime.
Highly Recommended Madonna: Truth or Dare Blu-ray Review Madonna is one of the most well lovedmusic acts in the history of pop music. Her albums continue to top thebillboardsales charts with each release
Highly Recommended The Descendants Blu-ray Review The Descendants is a tale about families, the necessity of love, and the determinationto be capable of moving forward.
Recommended Wizards Blu-ray Review RalphBakshi certainly seemed to recognize unique ways to createsci-fi/fantasyworlds in animation. Wizards doesn’t necessarilyseem reminiscent of anything else. Perhaps other Ralph Bakshi movies?Even thatdoesn’t seem to be a positive given because of how this particularfilmmakingexperience was aimed at appealing more directly to families and a wideraudiencethan …
Highly Recommended The Ring Blu-ray Review Have you heard the story of the haunted videotape? Peoplesay that it carries a curse with it. The idea might sound silly to someyoungeraudiences today, but The Ring introduced a terrifying concept: after viewing a video with frighteningandseemingly random images it led to a phone call with an ominous andforebodingvoice on the other end of the line.