Category: Blu-Ray’s

Littlerock

Blu-ray Review: Littlerock

It’s not unusual to see films about Americans abroad experiencing the difficulties of adjusting to a new culture. But in director Mike Ott’s award-winning indie drama, Littlerock, two foreign tourists find themselves struggling to adjust to small-town America. Japanese youths…

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Blu-ray Review: War Horse

Based on the children’s novel and stage adaptation of the same name, War Horse tells the story of the special relationship between a young man and his horse.  While the story of this relationship does have moments of charm, it’s…

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Into the Abyss

Blu-ray Review: Into the Abyss

Throughout his impressive career, filmmaker Werner Herzog hasn’t been afraid to explore difficult subject matter. From early works such as Aguirre: Wrath of God to later efforts like the documentary Grizzly Man, the director has explored nature vs. man, and…

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The Iron Lady

Blu-ray Review: The Iron Lady

An elderly woman enters a small corner shop in London for milk. She is shuffled about and ignored by other shoppers and the clerk. What those in the shop fail to realize is that the old woman with glasses, bundled…

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The Descendants

Blu-ray Review: The Descendants

Matt King is the sole trustee of acres of untouched Hawaiian land that he and his cousins are debating what to do with. While deciding what to do with the land that has belonged to their family since the 1800s,…

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Kate & Leopold

Blu-ray Review: Kate & Leopold (Director’s Cut)

In this slight but inoffensive rom-com from writer-director James Mangold, we’re introduced to Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten, Duke of Albany (Hugh Jackman).  Leopold is living in New York in the year 1876 and on the cusp of…

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Chinatown

Blu-ray Review: Chinatown

One of the best noir films ever made, Chinatown is considered by many to be the finest film of the 1970’s. Though filming began without a finished script, screenwriter Robert Towne ended up crafting a truly original story; one that…

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