Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: The Pajama Game

Released in 1957, The Pajama Game allows Doris Day to showcase both her acting and singing talents. Taken from a 1954 stage show, director Stanley Donne combines light comedy and music to create an enjoyable confection. At Iowa’s Sleeptite Pajama

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Blu-ray Review: Love Story (Paramount Presents)

Written by Erich Segal and directed by Arthur Hiller, Love Story broke box-office records, and catapulted its stars, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, to stardom. While I’m the first to admit that Love Story remains a guilty pleasure more than

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Blu-ray Review: Captain Newman, MD.

Arizona, 1944, Colfax Army Air Force Base. Josiah Newman, MD (Gregory Peck) needs help, space, and time. As head of the hospital’s psyche ward he has six weeks to either cure, ship back, or ship out his ever-growing number of

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Ladybug Ladybug

Blu-ray Review: Ladybug Ladybug

A passion project for Frank and Eleanor Perry, Ladybug Ladybug imagined the dread of a singular day when the faculty and students at a rural grade school are led to believe that a nuclear attack is imminent. The students are

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Diary of a Mad Housewife

Blu-ray Review: Diary of a Mad Housewife

Frank and Eleanor Perry’s adaptation of Sue Kaufman’s novel, Diary of a Mad Housewife was released to critical in 1970 and fifty years later it still resonates. Starring in her first film, Carrie Snodgrass won a Golden Globe for Best

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Blu-ray Review: The Beguiled

Released in 1971 (the same year as Dirty Harry and Play Misty for Me), the gothic melodrama The Beguiled was a disappointment at the box office. Based on the novel A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan, The Beguiled is

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Sunrise at Campobello

Blu-ray Review: Sunrise at Campobello

A dozen years before Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the 32nd president of the United States, he would be faced with the biggest challenge of his personal life. One day in the summer of 1921, FDR had spent the day swimming

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Play Misty For Me

Blu-ray Review: Play Misty For Me

Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut in 1971 with Play Misty For Me. Shot in just 21 days, Eastwood stars as Dave Garber, a popular late night disc jockey for a small station in Caramel, California. One night, a regular

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