Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: The Incredibles

Disney / Buena Vista | 2004 | 115 min | PG I’ll state it right off the top—even seven years after its release, The Incredibles remains one of my animated favorites.  Writer/director Brad Bird is one of the best in…

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Blu-ray Review: Dementia 13

HD Cinema Classics | 1963 | 75 min | NR Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 1963’s Dementia 13 is based on a script that Coppola co-wrote with second unit director Jack Hill. While far from…

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Blu-ray Review: Glee – Encore

20th Century Fox | 2010 | 77 min | NR Glee is officially a juggernaut. Have some doubts? As of February, the Fox TV musical’s fictitious New Directions show choir has placed 113 songs in the Top 100, beating out…

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Blu-ray Review: The Resident

Image Entertainment | 2011 | 91 mins. | R I have to think the makers of The Resident thought this film was going to be something better when they set out to make it. How else can you explain Oscar…

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Blu-ray Review: Kes

Criterion | 1969 | 111 mins. | NR Based on the Barry Hines novel “A Kestrel for a Knave,” Kes is an unsentimental, provocative, and touching portrait of poverty, marginalization and despair. In the poor, working class coal mining town…

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Blu-ray Review: Fiddler on the Roof

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1971 | 181 mins. | G Opening in September of 1964, the Harold Prince production of Fiddler on the Roof was inarguably one of the most beloved stage musicals of the second half of the 20th century. Based…

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Blu-ray Review: King of Kings

Warner Bros. | 1961 | 168 mins. | PG-13 The second of producer Samuel Bronston’s big-gauge roadshow epics filmed in Spain, King of Kings (1961) is a tasteful rendering of the Christ story and was MGM’s follow-up to their phenomenally…

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Blu-ray Review: Le Cercle Rouge

Criterion | 1970 | 141 mins, | PG The heist flick has been around almost as long as moving pictures.  There so common, most directors follow a familiar formula: gather a group of thieves and give each one of them…

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Blu-ray Review: White Material

Criterion | 2009 | 105 mins. | NR Born in Paris and raised in colonial Africa, filmmaker Claire Denis studied in France and learned the art of moviemaking under directors like Jacques Rivette, Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders. Her debut…

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