Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: Pretty Maids All in a Row

By the early 1970’s, Hollywood was in a transition period. A new generation of filmmakers were eager to make their mark. Among them was French provocateur Roger Vadim, fresh off the success of camp fest Barbarella, starring his then-wife, Jane…

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Blu-ray Review: The Mastermind

Writer/director Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind is both a character study and a heist film. Set in Framingham, Massachusetts,1970, James Blaine “J.B.” Mooney (Josh O’Connor), is an unemployed carpenter, art school dropout, and would be thief. JB orchestrates the theft of…

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Blu-ray Review: Letty Lynton

Legally unavailable for almost ninety years due to copyright infringement, 1932’s Letty Lynton has made its way to Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Archive. Based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, a young Joan Crawford stars as Letty Lynton, a…

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Blu-ray Review: The Late Show (1977)

Forever famous for his role as Ed Norton on televisions The Honeymooners, Art Carney found success on the big screen, winning a Best Actor Oscar for his role as Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto. In 1978, he joined Lilly…

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Blu-ray Review: Randy & the Mob

Probably best known for his role as Reverend Smith in the HBO series Deadwood, and for creating the Sundance TV series Rectify, Ray McKinnon wrote, directed, and starred as dual characters in 2007’s Randy and the Mob. Set in the…

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Blu-ray Review: Private Benjamin

A twenty-eight-year-old Jewish woman from a wealthy family, all Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) wants is a big house, nice clothes, two closets, a live-in maid, and a “professional man” for a husband. She seems to have it all, after her…

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Blu-ray Review: Tea and Sympathy

Based on the Broadway play of the same name, Tea and Sympathy is a story about the risks of not conforming to societal norms. Adapted for the screen by the play’s author Robert Anderson, the film created a considerable stir…

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