Highly Recommended The second of four “Three Mesquiteers” Westerns being released to Blu-ray and co-starring John Wayne, Red River Range (1938) is no Red River (1948), but on its own terms is outlandish and amusing, if juvenile. As with Overland Stage Raiders the main draw is the revelatory high-def transfer, which might seem fairly ordinary to the casual viewer but is certain to astound long …
Highly Recommended While not quite on the same scale as finding Orson Welles’s original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons or the original camera negative of the long-lost London After Midnight , Olive Films nonetheless has quietly achieved something quite remarkable with their release of Overland Stage Raiders (1938) and three other relatively obscure John Wayne pictures made just prior to John …
Rent It The Movie: Having just seen The American President recently on Blu-ray, it did make me remember that it has been awhile since I had seen the Presidential comedy Dave . I am not entirely sure why I have skipped this over the years, maybe it was the concept behind the story or the story itself
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD copy included in this package, not the Blu-ray under review. Probably the easiest modern comparison to the Cinerama film process is the IMAX theaters, particularly the true IMAX experience that you find at museums around the country, with the curved ceilings. In fact, Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and a prior review of the Blu-ray by DVD Savant , not the Blu-ray disc under review. Elaine May is goofy in a way so natural and effortless, it makes most other goofiness look contrived or superimposed by comparison. As delightfully illustrated by her 1971 film A New Leaf (her screenwriting …
Highly Recommended *All images in this review taken from the Blu-ray discs in this set. Click on all images to view full size caps
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills provided by Kino Lorber, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials/stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman is still Whit Stillman after all these years. The godfather of Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach.
Recommended THE FILM: I must confess that Hocus Pocus was one of my favorite Disney movies as a child. It didn’t pander to kids, and the danger felt real