Category: DVD’s

DVD Review: Liz & Dick

Liz & Dick is a hot mess of a little TV-movie. In the opening seconds, a “based on a true story” message flashes across the screen. However, the story told here—the tumultuous relationship of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; largely…

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DVD Review: Liberace – The Ultimate Entertainer

Released in advance of the highly promoted HBO mini-series “Behind the Candelabra” starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant piano-playing superstar Liberace, and Matt Damon as his much younger lover Scott Thorson, Timeless Media’s double-DVD set, Liberace: The Ultimate Entertainer gives…

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DVD Review: Easy Money (Snabba cash)

Every foreign film is fodder for my favorite game, “Who Does He/She Look Like?” It’s very American, I know, and it doesn’t work for every movie, such as The Intouchables and Run Lola Run, but it’s great shorthand for conveying…

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DVD Review: Badlands (Criterion Collection)

“He wanted to die with me, and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.” Narrated from the point of view of fifteen-year-old Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) Terrence Malick’s Badlands can be seen as a kind of modern day…

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