Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

The Big Chill (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00JPUUSEE”]The Big Chill centers on seven people, college friends and veterans of the activist 1960’s, who reunite for the weekend; brought together for the funeral of their friend Alex, who inexplicably committed suicide. His manner of death haunts the

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Made in America (2013) (Blu-ray)

[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00JLJ0AZ6″]Not just another concert movie, Made in America is an exploration and celebration of achieving the American Dream. Director Ron Howard, not known for his work on documentaries, took his cameras to the 2012 Made in America Festival in

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Cesar Chavez (Blu-ray)

Since beginning his Hollywood career in the mid 1990’s, Michael Peña has proven to be one of the industry’s most reliable character actors, playing second fiddle to better known stars who don’t always possess his natural acting ability. In the

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James Clavell’s Shōgun (Blu-ray)

Now largely relegated to cable, the mini-series was once a mainstay of American television. Beginning in 1976 with the success of Rich Man, Poor Man, and continuing with such classics as Roots and Jesus of Nazareth, mini-series became extremely popular

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Black Dynamite: Season One (Blu-ray)

The 2009 film Black Dynamite—a parody of several blaxploitation films from the 1970s—was a big enough hit to be developed into a Cartoon Network series on their Adult Swim programming block. Silly and occasionally over the top, Black Dynamite: Season

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Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II (Blu-ray)

The final installment of director Lars von Trier’s ‘Depression Trilogy’—following the sadistic, Antichrist (2009) and the apocalyptic-drama, Melancholia (2011)—the two-volume, four-hour psychosexual odyssey, Nymphomaniac has proven to be his most controversial film to date. While occasionally fascinating, Nymphomaniac is hardly

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Southern Comfort (Blu-ray)

Director Walter Hill’s unflinching tale of men pushed to their breaking point, Southern Comfort begins with the simplest of setups. In the opening prologue, a group of weekend warriors for the Louisiana National Guard are sent out for training in

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The Unknown Known (Blu-ray)

Even after more than forty years in public life, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remains somewhat of an enigma. Errol Morris’ documentary The Unknown Known has the filmmaker hitting Rumsfeld with tough questions. Blending archival footage, charts and an

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