Author: Rebecca Wright

Blu-ray Review: Dances With Wolves

MGM | 1990 | 234 mins. | PG-13 To date, Dances With Wolves is by far actor/director Kevin Costner’s best work. Aided by writer Michael Blake, Costner used the Civil War as a background for the story of Dances With…

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Blu-ray Review: Middle Men

Paramount | 2009 | 112 mins. | R It’s hard to believe now, but there was actually a time during the early days of the internet (the early to mid ‘90’s), when people wondered if the technology would ever really…

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Blu-ray Review: The Double Life of Veronique

Criterion | 1991 | 98 mins. | R An international breakthrough for Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991’s The Double Life of Veronique is one of those films that gives the viewer bits and pieces of the story, but then leaves…

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Blu-ray Review: Life As We Know It

Warner Bros. | 2010 | 114 mins. | PG-13 Why is it that when actors experience success on television, they suddenly decide their too big for the medium? I mean, what’s wrong with making movies during the summer hiatus? The…

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Blu-ray Review: Network

Warner Bros. | 1976 | 121 mins. | R When director Sidney Lumet and writer Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was released back in 1976, it was regarded as biting satire. Strangely, given our current obsession with reality television, the thought of…

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Blu-ray Review: Paranormal Activity 2

Paramount | 2010 | 98 mins. | R Similar to The Blair Witch Project phenomena, Paranormal Activity made its way to screens in 2009, after two years of marketing. Having first screened at Screamfest Film Festival in 2007, there was…

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Blu-ray Review: All About Eve

20th Century Fox | 1950 | 138 mins. | NR If Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard offers a brilliant glimpse of washed up Hollywood, All About Eve is the best example of a stars struggle to stay at the top of…

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Blu-ray Review: An Affair to Remember

20th Century Fox | 1957 | 115 mins. | NR Director Leo McCarey’s An Affair to Remember has an interesting place in the history of film. First told in his 1939 classic Love Affair, in 1957, McCarey remade his own…

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