Blu-ray Review: The Runner Stumbles
Loosely based on true story, 1979’s The Runner Stumbles was the final film of legendary director/producer Stanley Kramer’s (Judgement at Nuremberg, Inherit the Wind, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner) long career. Set in remote Michigan circa 1911, the story begins as Father Rivard (Dick Van Dyke, Mary Poppins) is fetching his parish’s latest addition, fresh […]
Blu-ray Review: For Love of Ivy
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Blu-ray Review: The Mountain Between Us
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Two-Minute Warning (Blu-ray)
Released in 1976, Two-Minute Warning tries to be a thriller, but falls back on the predictable characteristics of the popular but fading disaster genre of the era. Despite a cast that includes Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Mitchell Ryan, Walter Pidgeon, Gena Rowlands, Brock Peters, David […]
The Hotel New Hampshire (Blu-ray)
British film director Tony Richardson’s decidedly jumpy, loud approach to Tom Jones shocked purists but brought him the 1963 Oscar for Best Director. In his adaptation of John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire, that same frenetic style leaves little time to enjoy what could have been a fascinating narrative. Richardson keeps things moving so quickly, […]
Blu-ray Review: From Up on Poppy Hill (Special Edition)
Now in his early seventies, Studio Ghibli master animator Hayao Miyazaki has chosen to ease his way out of the director’s chair in favor of his oldest son Gorō. Gorō co-wrote and directed the 2006 effort Tales from Earthsea, and made a return to the director’s chair to oversee a screenplay written by his father […]
Blu-ray Review: The Descendants
Matt King is the sole trustee of acres of untouched Hawaiian land that he and his cousins are debating what to do with. While deciding what to do with the land that has belonged to their family since the 1800s, he must also deal with his hospitalized wife that he learns will not make it […]
The Descendants on Blu-ray and DVD March 13
Los Angeles, CA – From director Alexander Payne creator of the Oscar® winning Sideways comes one of the Best Pictures of the year, The Descendants , featuring a stunning cast including Best Actor nominee George Clooney (Ides of March) and Shailene Woodley (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) in her Golden Globe nominated and […]
Blu-ray Review: Free Willy – Escape from Pirate’s Cove
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 101 mins. | Rated PG Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove got a direct-to-DVD release in March, and it’s a film that likely deserved a better fate. The movie is charming enough to have found a sizable family-centric audience had it been released theatrically. The fourth in the Free Willy […]