Author: Rebecca Wright

DVD Review: The Jetsons Meet the Flinstones

Originally airing from 1962–63 and again from 1985–87, The Jetsons was Hanna-Barbera’s Space Age complement to The Flinstones. Both franchises are amongHanna-Barbera’s most popular creations, so it makes perfect sense they would be brought together in 1987’s The Jetsons Meet…

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Blu-ray Review: Death at a Funeral (2007)

Frank Oz, better known as the voice of Yoda, Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy, has taken over the director’s chair regularly in his career. Understandably, his first experience as a director was with Jim Henson on The Dark Crystal. Usually…

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Blu-ray Review: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The 1964 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, yet another entry into director Vittorio De Sica’s ‘lighter fair’ filmography, is likely his best from that period. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni team up again for…

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Blu-ray Review: Hair

Based on the ground-breaking 1968 Broadway musical of the same name, Hair was long considered unfilmable. Under the guidance of noted director Milos Foreman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) Hair made it to the big screen in 1979….

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Blu-ray Review: The Makioka Sisters

Based on Junichiro Tanizaki’s epic novel Sasameyuki (‘A Light Snowfall’), The Makioka Sisters covers the complex relationships of four sisters from a haughty upper middle-class Osaka family. The year is 1938. The two eldest sisters, Tsuruko (Keiko Kishi) and Sachiko…

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Bu-ray Review: Vera Cruz

Shot on location in Mexico, 1954’s Vera Cruz was a new kind of western for the time. Filmed in Superscope, featuring sweeping landscapes, and multiple gun battles, and stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, rarely has a films tagline—“The Giants…

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