4K UHD Review: Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition)
Based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name, Pride & Prejudice tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) and her five sisters, who live with their overbearing mother (Brenda Blethyn) and their gentle and loving father (Donald Sutherland), in the English countryside. As the second eldest, Elizabeth and eldest daughter Jane (Rosamund […]
Blu-ray Review: The Witches (1990)
Nearing the end of a career that included such films as Walkabout, Don’t Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth, English director Nicholas Roeg teamed with Jim Henson Productions for The Witches. The 1990 film is based on the eponymous 1983 children’s novel by Roald Dahl. Wickedly fun, the unabashedly dark tale, may […]
DVD Review: Atonement
Based on the best selling novel by Ian McEwen, Atonement is the story of 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), an aspiring writer from an upper class English family who because of a mix of immaturity, misunderstanding and jealousy, tells a lie that changes her life and that of her family’s forever. Briony’s older sister Cecilia […]