Author: Rebecca Wright

Blu-ray Review: Thor

Color me surprised when Kenneth Branagh’s name appeared as the director of Marvel’s Thor. He just Hardly known for his box office hits, he just didn’t seem like the right guy to the reigns of a $150 million superhero saga….

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Blu-ray Review: Scarface (1983)

Though it’s managed to achieve cult status nearly thirty years after its theatrical release, Brian De Palma’s Scarface was attacked by most critics. Made for an estimated $25 million, box office response was rather tepid, only grossing nearly $66 million….

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DVD Review: Police Story – Season One

The brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh, the 1973 debut of Police Story represented a major step forward in the more realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Though still a Detective Sergeant when the…

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Blu-ray Review: Dressed to Kill

Despite his successes, director Brian De Palma has rarely been a critical favorite. In his early years of his career, he was accused of ripping off Alfred Hitchcock and being very misogynistic. Today, many feel his films aren’t nearly as…

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Blu-ray Review: Trainspotting

“I chose not to choose life. I chose to choose something else,” says the film’s narrator and main character, a twenty-something Edinburgh man named Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), near the beginning of Trainspotting. From the start, it’s clear that this…

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Blu-ray Review: Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs, one of Sam Peckinpah’s best films, was released in 1971 as American soldiers were fighting in Vietnam and citizens at home were protesting United States involvement in the conflict. Shocking at the time because of its explicit gore,…

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