Author: Rebecca Wright

Blu-ray Review: The Hour

Set in 1956, against the backdrop of the Suez Canal crisis, The Hour follows three brash employees of the titular news show. Asked to create a unique 60-minute investigative news program, wunderkind producer Bel Rowley (Romola Garai), calls on her…

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Blu-ray Review: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A period piece road picture about a trio of ex-cons who wind their way around the state of Mississippi during the Great Depression, the basic premise of O Brother, Where Art Thou? seems ideally suited for the Coens’ oeuvre, combining…

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Spy Kids 4 Coming to Blu-ray and DVD November 22

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Anchor Bay Entertainment and Dimension Films announced today the home video release of the fourth film in the action-packed family film franchise, SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD, from dynamo director Robert Rodriguez (Sin…

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Blu-ray Review: The Tempest

When compared to his other works, William Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest is a bit of an odd duck. While it combines elements of his previous comedies, romances, and tragedies into something original, it can also come off as a…

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Blu-ray Review: True Legend

Yuen Woo-ping has had a long and successful career as a director and actor in Hong Kong. American audiences may be more familiar with him through his outstanding fight choreography for such films as The Matrix, Kill Bill and The…

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Blu-ray Review: Footloose

Based on the real life effort from the kids of Elmore City, Oklahoma, to overturn a law in their town banning public dancing, Footloose is about more than rowdy high school kids wanting to show off their cool moves. Though…

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Blu-ray Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

If there ever was a living director capable of bringing Roald Dahl’s slightly warped children’s stories to the big screen, it has to be Tim Burton. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wasn’t the first time the two had “collaborated.” Burton…

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Blu-ray Review: Le Beau Serge

Often considered the first the film of what would become known as the French New Wave (though Jacques Rivette’s Paris Belongs to Us was the first to go into production), Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge received near unanimous critical acclaim…

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