Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: Community – The Complete Series

[amazon_link asins=’B07DKYXSGV’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’9b63333a-f6a0-11e8-9621-4b836c663cb6′]I loved Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live and I regularly watched Joel McHale on The Soup.   It’s a bit odd then, that I only saw a few episodes of Community when it originally aired.

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Blu-ray Review: The Swarm

[amazon_link asins=’B07GSX4MPM’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’932e584d-f2aa-11e8-bf9c-9fa89fc30cf5′]Producer/director Irwin Allen struck box office gold with a string of star-studded disaster films including The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Based on a novel by Arthur Herzog, The Swarm, seemed liked

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DVD Review: A Happening of Monumental Proportions

[amazon_link asins=’B07G1C5WXF’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’666f5eab-e2db-11e8-82c4-69029f5e6f7c’]The feature directorial debut of comedienne/actress Judy Greer, A Happening of Monumental Proportions follows several distinct storylines that don’t really come together in the end. What starts out as an average day for widowed accountant

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Blu-ray Review: Bad Ronald

[amazon_link asins=’B07HGKKGTD’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’3404b7ef-e075-11e8-839f-2b43bf1d91a5′]A 1974 made-for-television movie directed by Buzz Kulik, Bad Ronald is based on a book by the same name by Jack Vance. Ronald Wilby (Scott Jacoby, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane) is

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Blu-ray Review: Whitney

[amazon_link asins=’B07G19F9VR’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6a64c23b-e06f-11e8-ba5a-0b7fae3afec7′]Six years after her death, Oscar winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (Marley) explores the life of Whitney Houston in Whitney. Given access to family, friends, and those who knew Whitney best, he uncovers some troubling revelations

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Blu-ray Review: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

[amazon_link asins=’B07GJNSC5X’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’4789f687-d633-11e8-a203-5dc9b2ed0d30′]Based on Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers and directed by future Clint Eastwood favorite Don Siegel (Riot in Cell Block 11), Invasion of the Body Snatchers unfolds in a normal, average American small town.

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Blu-ray Review: Designing Woman

[amazon_link asins=’B07D4CLC3N’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5b67dadf-d241-11e8-97c0-edb94721a883′]Released in 1957, Vicente Minnelli’s screwball comedy Designing Woman earned writer George Wells an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The concept for the story came from famed, two-time Oscar winning costume designer Helen Rose, who

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Blu-ray Review: Bat 21

[amazon_link asins=’B07FRXG255′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’fbf67c61-d00c-11e8-bb68-afe82d0663a9′]Released in 1988, Bat 21 (stylized as “Bat*21”) is based on the true story of Lt. Col. Iceal “Ham” Hambleton, a weapons countermeasure expert shot down in the jungles of Vietnam while taking part in

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Blu-ray Review: Three Identical Strangers

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Blu-ray Review: The Farmer’s Daughter

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