Author: Rebecca Wright

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Blu-ray)

Based on a 1962 play by Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is far less controversial now than it was when it first hit theater screens back in 1966. Even so, the uninhibited dialogue spewed forth by stars Elizabeth…

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Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Sixth Season (DVD)

Picking up where the fifth season left off, Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars finds Aria (Lucy Hale), Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Emily (Shay Mitchell) and Mona (Janel Parrish) find themselves still inside A’s “dollhouse,” having been subjected to torture. A is angrier…

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Prefontaine (Blu-ray)

Co-writer/director Steve James’ (Hoop Dreams) Prefontaine tells the story of Steve Prefontaine, considered by many America’s greatest long distance runner of all time. Holding the American record in seven different distance track events, Prefontaine was favored to win gold at…

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A Poem is a Naked Person (Criterion) (Blu-ray)

Shot over a two-year period beginning in 1972, Les Blank’s A Poem is a Naked Person, a documentary on musician Leon Russell, has had an interesting history. Creative differences led to a falling out between Blank and Russell, which led…

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Ken Burns’ Jackie Robinson (Blu-ray)

The story of how Jackie Robinson broke modern major league baseball’s color barrier in 1947, is known by many. Brooklyn Dodgers president and general manager Branch Rickey offered Robinson the chance to play in the majors under the condition that…

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Expendables 3 (4K Blu-ray)

After months of discussion, March marked the arrival of the newest format for home theater aficionados, 4K UHD Blu-rays. The roll out has been a bit slow, with just a handful of titles available as of this writing, but for…

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The Hateful Eight (Blu-ray)

Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to make a nearly three-hour film that takes place mostly in one room, yet still manages to be great. While the writer/director still gives in to some of the self-indulgent tendencies his fans have come…

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CHiPs: The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)

As a huge fan of CHiPs growing up, I was thrilled when Warner Brothers recently released the fourth season. As the eighties began, motorcycle cops Frank “Ponch” Poncherello (Erik Estrada) and Jon Baker (Larry Wilcox) were happily stuck in the…

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