Author: Rebecca Wright

DVD Review: Hotel – The First Season

Paramount | 1169 mins. | 1983 | Not Rated Based on Arthur Hailey’s 1965 novel of the same name (which had also inspired a 1967 feature film), Hotel was created and produced by Aaron Spelling. Set in the elegant (and…

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DVD Review: Leverage – The First Season

TNT | 584 mins | Not Rated Created by John Rogers and Chris Downey, Leverage follows a team of Los Angeles based thieves, computer experts and con-artists. They are led by former insurance investigator Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton) and use…

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Blu-ray Review: Midnight Express

Sony Pictures | 1978 | 121 mins | Rated R Alan Parker has directed a number of well known films including Fame (1980), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Mississippi Burning (1988) and Evita (1996). However, his greatest achievement in film…

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Blu-ray Review: 12 Rounds

20th Century Fox | 2009 | 110 mins | Rated PG-13 I haven’t been an avid fan of professional wrestling since I was a teenager in the mid-eighties–the WWE was the WWF and Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and Greg…

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Blu-ray Review: Grumpy Old Men

Warner Bros. | 1993 | 103 mins | Rated PG-13 Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon made ten films together (eleven, if you count Lemmon’s cameo in the Matthau vehicle Kotch). While they are undoubtedly best remembered for their pairing in…

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