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Widely ignored upon its release in 1970, Hornets’ Nest is set during World War II. Reanoto, Italy, 1944. After residents refused to give up the location of Resistance partisans, the Nazi’s open fire, massacring the entire village. Weeks later, American
No stranger to controversial topics, in 1967 director/producer Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) offered his thoughts on race relations and interracial marriage with Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. He cast long-time friends Spencer Tracy (who’d worked with
It’s important to note that this review covers Criterion’s second printing Dressed to Kill. The original pressing has significant framing issues, acknowledged by Criterion. As it says in the accompanying leaflet, this Blu-ray is a “New, restored, 4K digital transfer
A mix of Cliffhanger and Air Force One, Big Game is ridiculous, but much more fun than the aforementioned films because it takes itself far less seriously. Samuel L. Jackson manages to keep a straight face through the whole thing,
A visual wonder and gorgeous to watch, George Miller’s latest installment of the Mad Max series, Fury Road, sucks you in from the opening moments and doesn’t let go until the closing credits. Miller has maintained the feel of the
The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff’s (Life at the Top, Fun With Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty) Billy Two Hats has made its way to Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Released
The shorts gathered together for the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection run the gamut from silly to somber. While Frozen Fever and Tangled Ever After are tie-ins to two popular Disney films and will attract buyers—which isn’t a
The first of three film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play, 1931’s The Front Page presents a sharp, insightful look at journalism of the day. Watching the film more than eighty years after its initial release, it’s both sad
An ambitious co-production between the BBC and HBO, The Casual Vacancy is an adaption of J.K Rowling’s first adult novel, a piece that finds her exploring more mature subject matter than those found in her phenomenally successful Harry Potter series.
Justice League: Gods and Monsters takes us to an alternate DC universe where Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, aren’t the heroes we think we know, but a despotic group of souls who answer to no one but themselves. In this