Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

The Vanquished (I vinti) (Blu-ray)

The Vanquished (I vinti), the 1953 film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, tells three harsh tales of about post-World War II youth, each based in part on true events. In each one, young people rebelling against post-war mores find

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Operation Petticoat (Blu-ray)

A late career vehicle for Cary Grant, the light service comedy Operation Petticoat isn’t one of the versatile actor’s best pictures, but it did give him a chance to work with Tony Curtis, who had offered up his own very

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Duck Dynasty: Season 5 (Blu-ray)

Duck Dynasty has broken several ratings records on both A&E and cable as a whole. However, the fifth season has seen a significant drop in ratings. This could easily be blamed on family patriarch Phil Robertson’s controversial comments in the

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Devil’s Knot (Blu-ray)

Over the past two decades, the story of the West Memphis Three has gotten tons of press coverage, and been the been the subject of three separate documentaries. Since the murdered bodies of three young boys were discovered in an

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The Spike Lee Joint Collection: Vol. 1 (Blu-ray)

With Disney’s recent release of the two-volume, four-movie Spike Lee Joint Collection, three additional films from the prolific, occasionally controversial, director Spike Lee. Vol. 1 features the well written and performed, character study 25th Hour (2002) and the gripping He

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Ernest and Celestine (Blu-ray)

Very simple, yet undeniably charming, Ernest and Celestine is the story of two animals that are supposed to be enemies being friends. Based on a Belgian series of books by Gabrielle Vincent, the film opened in Europe at the end

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (Blu-ray)

Wes Anderson is rarely accused of being boring or dull. The dollhouse aesthetic, hypersytilization, and droll humor are uniquely Anderson. You either get it, or you don’t; critics be damned. Anderson’s films often have an aura of timelessness about them,

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Home Before Midnight (Blu-ray)

Largely known for his horror and sexploitation films throughout the 1970’s, British director Pete Walker ended the decade with Home Before Midnight, a surprisingly serious, yet still controversial film. As if not to disappoint fans of his work, Walker does

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