Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
In 1988, Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar scored an international hit with the satirical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A romantic farce, it played out a bit like a 1960’s Doris Day film on speed. So, you can imagine American fans surprise when his next film, 1990’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! was […]
Blu-ray Review: Original Sin
Original Sin is based on the novel “Waltz Into Darkness” by Cornell Woolrich, the author of the story Hitchcock used as the basis for Rear Window. However, in terms of quality, it would be difficult to find two more dissimilar films. Unlike Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Original Sin fails to generate any real suspense. While there are […]
Blu-ray Review: The Mask of Zorro
Sony Pictures | 1998 | 136 mins. | Rated PG-13 Zorro, the fictional hero created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley has been featured in numerous books, films, television series and other media. Fans of 1950’s television may claim that Disney’s Zorro is the best—after watching Zorro: Season’s One and Two on DVD, I’m […]
The Mask of Zorro Coming to Blu-ray December 1, 2009
Culver City, Calif. (September 21, 2009) – The revered black-masked bandit goes blu when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases the high-definition Blu-ray Disc™ of The Mask of Zorro on December 1, 2009 for an SRP of $24.95. Expert action director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) shepherds this incarnation of the Machiavellian marauder that stars Antonio Banderas […]