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 …
Recommended The Movies: First things first – those of you who already own the recent director’s cut Blu-ray release of Mimic ? The first disc in this two disc set which compiles the three films in the series is identical to that release outside of the cover art
Highly Recommended I must admit to taking Meryl Streep for granted most of the last 30 years. After a pretty amazing early film career in films like The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), and Sophie’s Choice (1982), for me Streep’s movies began a big downward slide beginning with the absurdly overrated Out of Africa (1985).
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 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.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Kino Lorber, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Celebrity profiles might seem to be one of the more disposable categories of entertainment, but like anything else, it’s all in the details and execution.
Rent It THE FILM: Whitney Houston’s first acting role was a good fit: She played international music and film superstar Rachel Marron, a vulnerable diva whose life was threatened by a crazed fan, alongside Kevin Costner as her tireless protector in Director Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard . Critics were not kind to the film, but it raked in over $400 million in worldwide receipts and its soundtrack …