Blu-ray Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Every year we get a few movies (sometimes, more than a few), that fail to live up to expectations, despite wonderful origins. The cast and director are well known and respected by the public, but the material just fails to connect with viewers. Such is the case with Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Based on Maria […]
DVD Review: Youth in Oregon
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Blu-ray Review: 20th Century Women
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DVD Review: Pretty Bird
Paramount | 2008 | 98 mins. | Rated R Though Paramount agreed to distribute the 2008 comedic drama Pretty Bird, the studio clearly didn’t have much faith in the film as they screened it at Sundance and then shelved it for two years, finally releasing it directly to video. To cut their losses, the studio […]