Category: DVD’s

Like Crazy

DVD Review: Like Crazy

Director Drake Doremus brings us a touching story about first loves in the Sundance Award winning film Like Crazy. Anna (Felicity Jones) falls for Jacob (Anton Yelchin) while studying abroad in America. When it’s time for Anna to return home…

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DVD Review: Most Valuable Players

Similar to sports, drama programs provide high schooler’s with a positive outlet for their creativity as they work to find their identities. Nowhere is this more true than in one county in Pennsylvania, where students who participate in their high…

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DVD Review: Suspicion (1988)

Andrew Grieve’s 1988 remake of the Hitchcock classic, Suspicion is a spellbinding romp through the foreboding English countryside, aided by an ominous performance by Anthony Andrews (The King’s Speech) as Johnnie Aysgarth. Jane Curtin supplements with a heartwrenchingly fragile screen…

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DVD Review: Here Come the Brides – Season Two

Here Come the Brides is a television show based on the novel Gangway, Lord by historical fiction writer Jonathan Etter. Jason (Robert Brown), Joshua (David Soul), and Jeremy Bolt (Bobby Sherman) are loggers in the 1870’s and make a deal…

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Sunset Limited

DVD Review: The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited is an HBO film adapted from a play by Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men). The play was published in 2006 and the Tommy Lee Jones produced the film in 2011. The…

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K. Pilkington

DVD Review: An Idiot Abroad

Discovered by Ricky Gervais and his writing partner Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington is a unique fellow to be sure. Pilkington was an engineer at the radio studio where Gervais and Merchant would record their popular podcasts; Karl’s bold views on…

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Eva Braun

DVD Review: Swastika

Adolf Hitler is one of the most demonized figures in the history of the world. Freely elected as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he led his country into World War II while attempting to wipe out the entire Jewish race…

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Tokyo Drifter

DVD Review: Tokyo Drifter (Criterion Collection)

During the 1960’s, Japan’s Nikkatsu Studios hired Seijin Suzuki to make a series of crime melodramas that were to play on the bottom-half of double features. Because these where low budget films, shot in a month’s time, Nikkatsu gave the…

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