4K UHD Review: WarGames
With the Cold War a distant memory and the internet available nearly everywhere, WarGames works best as a time capsule. Released in 1983, WarGames was one of the best of its era at to illustrate what Cold War era paranoia felt like at a time when computer technology was entering the mainstream. Easy to dismiss […]
Blu-ray Review: Urban Cowboy
Inspired by an article by the same name in Esquire Magazine, and capitalizing on the late 1970’s early 1980’s popularity of country music, Urban Cowboy stars John Travolta as Bud Davis, a rural Texan who moves to Houston for a job with his uncle in the city’s oil refinery industry. At a sprawling honky-tonk bar […]
Anger Management: Volume Three (Blu-ray)
Back in 2011, after Charlie Sheen’s meltdown led to his dismissal from Two and a Half Men, I naively thought he had finally done irreparable damage to his career. Surprisingly, a lot of people seem to enjoy his “tiger blood,” “winning” act, and it wasn’t long before it seemed as though he was more popular […]