Tag: Blu-ray

Gone With the Wind Coming to Blu-ray

Burbank, CA — Winner of 10 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, and still history’s all time domestic box-office champion ($1.5 billion), Gone with the Wind has long been considered the most celebrated motion picture of all time. On November 17,…

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Blu-ray Review: The Soloist

DreamWorks |2009 | 117 mins | Rated PG-13 Hollywood loves stories involving people with mental or physical handicaps. The list of Oscar winners is littered with actors who played disabled characters: Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny…

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Blu-ray Review: Obsessed

Sony Pictures | 2009 | 108 mins | Rated PG-13 At first glance, Obsessed seemed like a great opportunity for pop diva Beyoncé Knowles to stretch her acting wings and play something other than, well, a pop diva. We get…

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Blu-ray Review: St. Elmo’s Fire

Sony Pictures | 1985 | 108 mins | Rated R Ah, the “Brat Pack. Those of us who grew up in the eighties remember them well. The term was often used to describe a group of young actors and actresses…

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Blu-ray Review: Sling Blade

Disney / Buena Vista | 1996 | 135 mins | Rated R In the 1980’s, Billy Bob Thornton was living in Los Angeles and trying to establish himself as an actor; one night, while working as a waiter at an…

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Blu-ray Review: Echelon Conspiracy

Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 105 mins | Rated PG-13 Throughout the history of film, Hollywood has a history of creating knockoffs. Filmmakers and executives don’t restrict the art of the art of the knockoff to the movies themselves; sometimes…

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Blu-ray Review: Race to Witch Mountain

Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 98 mins | Rated PG Given Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s popularity as a wrestler and his subsequent success in action films like The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, it would have made…

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