Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: Son of the Sheik (1926)

[amazon_link asins=’B06XS5Q5CZ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’f23c7e92-4a1c-11e7-b78a-13b6ec0ab1d7′] Five years after The Sheik made him an international star, Rudolph Valentino found himself at a crossroad. In 1923, he married designer Natacha Rambova. Though they would divorce just two years later in 1925,

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Blu-ray Review: The Sheik (1921)

[amazon_link asins=’B06XS1K39D’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a8c524ac-4882-11e7-887e-01357f0df5cc’] Fabulously handsome, super-smooth, and perhaps a bit dangerous, Rudolph Valentino was everything the public wanted in its male movie stars of the 1920’s. At a time when silents were the only game in town,

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Blu-ray Review: Bambi (Signature Collection Edition)

[amazon_link asins=’B06XS99HCG’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’fbd938b5-471d-11e7-a296-19f3eb2bdd52′] First released on Blu-ray in 2011, Bambi, the Disney animated classic returns to the format as part of the Signature Collection Series. Filled with both classic and new extras, the Bambi Signature Collection Edition

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Blu-ray Review: Fist Fight

[amazon_link asins=’B06Y2GTFQG’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’45014afc-458c-11e7-b384-b30196598293′] A quasi re-imagining of the 1987 high school film Three 0’Clock High, Fist Fight has the unenviable distinction of being worse than the film that inspired it. More tedious than funny, and full of

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Blu-ray Review: Tough Guys

[amazon_link asins=’B06XRYNF47′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e90f14a1-43c4-11e7-ad89-2fd59f5687e0′] Over their long and illustrious careers, Burt Lancaster and Kurt Douglas made seven films together. The final pairing, Tough Guys, isn’t their best, but it’s a fitting swan song, offering humor, and a little

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Blu-ray Review: Marjorie Morningstar

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Blu-ray Review: The Godfather – Part II (2017 Reissue)

[amazon_link asins=’B06XNS686F’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’676d7908-3a7d-11e7-b890-0f0b8ae6332e’] One of the few sequels in film history to be regarded by many as better than the first, The Godfather: Part ll was recently reissued on Blu-ray by Paramount with the same transfer, audio,

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Blu-ray Review: Rings

[amazon_link asins=’B01MTF2WGZ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5254e79d-3a75-11e7-95ea-ffcbfc2bbe67′] Samara has gone digital! VHS, her vengeful format of choice was already on borrowed time in 2002, when Rings, Gore Verbinski’s Japanese horror remake hit theaters. Fifteen years later, as the franchise resurfaces with

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Blu-ray Review: The Godfather (45th Anniversary)

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Blu-ray Review: Serial Mom (Collector’s Edition)

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