Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

The Goldfinch

Blu-ray Review: The Goldfinch

13-year old Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley) and his mother Audrey (Hailey Wist) are visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art when a terrorist bomb explodes. The explosion leaves his mother dead. Surrounded by debris and dead bodies, Theo does two things

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Winter Kills

Blu-ray Review: Winter Kills

Winter Kills William Richert’s adaptation of Richard Condon’s novel “Winter Kills”–a thinly veiled look at the John F. Kennedy assassination–grounded in dark political satire was plagued with production issues including a mafia hit on one producer, a forty-year prison sentence

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Blinded By the Light

Blu-ray Review: Blinded By the Light

Gurinder Chadha, director of Bend it Like Beckham, delivers another lively character study with Blinded By the Light, a period piece set in England,1987. 16-year-old Pakistani immigrant Javed (Viveik Kalra) lives in the industrial town of Luton with his parents,

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Charley Varrick

Blu-ray Review: Charley Varrick

Based on the novel The Looters, by John Reese, Charley Varrick was directed by Don Siegel from a script by Howard Rodman. Walter Matthau stars in the title role; a former trick pilot and crop duster, Charley is reduced to

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The Kitchen

Blu-ray Review: The Kitchen

New York City, 1978. Three women are the best of friends and married to gangsters. Cathy (Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) is a stay at home mother; Ruby (Tiffany Haddish) has a racist mother-in-law (Margo Martindale); and Claire

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Toys Are Not For Children

Blu-ray Review: Toys Are Not For Children

Young Jamie Goddard (Marcia Forbes) is a troubled girl who loves her collection of toys a little bit too much. The movie opens with her snuggling up to a fluffy toy soldier in a decidedly sexual manner. Jamie works in

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