Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: Seven Days in May

[amazon_link asins=’B071D7G5VW’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’52906a9b-3347-11e7-9980-55774a0b773a’] Scripted by Twilight Zone creator Rod Sterling and directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate (1962)), Seven Days in May is based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles

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Blu-ray Review: A Dog’s Purpose

[amazon_link asins=’B01N37D6XC’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’de3ed666-31d3-11e7-b76e-d1eb82f71e32′] Earlier this year, footage of a dog allegedly being mistreated during the filming of a scene on the set of A Dog’s Purpose angered online activists, and quickly went viral. Independent investigators later found

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Blu-ray Review: Peyton Place (1957)

[amazon_link asins=’B06XXSR2KF’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’dcbbacdd-2f77-11e7-be10-09c2beb735ac’] In 1956, Grace Metalious was a housewife, and mother of three when her first novel, Peyton Place became a bestseller. It sold 60,000 copies in the first ten days of release, and remained on

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Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever (Director’s Cut)

[amazon_link asins=’B06XDCTSPM’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’44c78740-2c42-11e7-a327-7b5b0a53bbdc’] Saturday Night Fever arrived in U.S. movie theaters on December 12, 1977, quickly becoming a hit with audiences and critics alike. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National

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Blu-ray Review: Mars

[amazon_link asins=’B01LTHZEP8′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’12ff8fda-2920-11e7-b9f9-99fa2d18deba’] From executive producer’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, MARS is a fascinating kind of hybrid series–real life documentary of events, mixed with a fictionalized account of man’s first attempt to colonize Mars circa 2033.

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Blu-ray Review: War on Everyone

[amazon_link asins=’B01MURPKJ8′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’cae9c0cc-2608-11e7-80aa-51529d204a29′] Writer/director John Michael McDonagh received critical accolades for his last two feature films, The Guard (2011), and Calvary (2014). His unique brand of social commentary mixed with a wicked streak of black comedy, made

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Blu-ray Review: Hidden Figures

[amazon_link asins=’B01LTI1RHQ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a1a13ec8-23a3-11e7-a370-25ff00e49daf’] Set in 1960’s Virginia, Hidden Figures tells the story of three pioneering African American women whose work at NASA was important to several space missions, including John Glen’s orbit of the Earth. At that

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Blu-ray Review: Rogue One – A Star Wars Story

[amazon_link asins=’B01MXLWO5D’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’fcd1a5a4-2144-11e7-939a-1f09844c8610′] The first “Star Wars anthology” movie (a story not focused on the Skywalker family), Rogue One   posed a unique challenge for director Gareth Edwards: pay tribute to George Lucas’ well-loved hexalogy, while connecting the

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Blu-ray Review: 45 Years (Criterion Collection)

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Blu-ray Review: Blowup (Criterion Collection)

[amazon_link asins=’B01MSZLUQ6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’696c4d9f-1d3f-11e7-a53c-adff109b6016′] Winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or and an inspiration to numerous filmmakers, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup is the story of Thomas (the excellent David Hemmings), a disenchanted fashion photographer in ’60s London who discovers he’s

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