Highly Recommended It seems fitting that Somerville House would be releasing Zorro on Blu-Ray shortly before Django Unchained revives that character for a new generation; the character of Zorro is sort of like the yin to Django’s yang. Where Django acts only selfishly, manipulating people for his own ends, Zorro acts selflessly, fighting for justice and the little guy. This 1975 film appears to …
Recommended THE FILM: The following should be enough to gauge your interest in seeing Excision : AnnaLynne McCord fantasizes about having sex with corpses; former adult film star Traci Lords displays surprising acting chops as her uptight mother; and John Waters, the king of trash cinema, shows up as a priest.
Highly Recommended If you’ve been perusing the DVD and Blu – ray sections of your local retailers this year, then you’ve undoubtedly seen the banner atop many a disc that celebrates 100 years of filmmaking for Universal Studios.
Highly Recommended In your faaaace ! Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. piss off more goofs who can’t just enjoy a simple DVD full of toons with the release of Regular Show: The Best DVD in the World* (*at this moment in time) , a single-disc, 16-episode collection of Cartoon Network ‘s hit Monday night show (and my current favorite toon on television). Created by J
Rent It The Movie: The first feature film directed by Joe Dante in some time, 2009’s The Hole makes a slightly late debut on Blu-ray, but better late than never. If this isn’t his best movie, and few would argue that it is, it’s still a good time at the movies, a nice mix of the type of fantasy and light horror that have made a lot of Dante’s earlier pictures so much fun – but it doesn’t offer …
Recommended Not that you need me to tell you this or anything, but the Universal Classic Monsters boxed set hit Blu-ray this month, collecting a slew of the most iconic horror films from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Universal isn’t just spending this Halloween reveling in its past, though; the studio is also Read the entire review
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 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. More gripping, succinct, and troubling than almost any picture made in the Hollywood studios’ golden age, Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 Western High Noon is a starker, more thoughtful example of the genre than many of its …
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 THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.