4K UHD Review: Boogie Nights
“Everyone is blessed with one special thing,” says Mark Wahlberg as Boogie Nights’ Dirk Diggler, a rising star in the pre-AIDS heyday of 1970s porn. And Dirk’s special thing is his special thing. That is—and there’s no way to put this politely—his massive member, always ready for action. Boogie Nights was director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson’s […]
Blu-ray Review: Starting Over
Written by James L. Brooks and directed by Alan J. Pakula—two filmmakers who found great success in the 1970’s through the 1990’s, Brooks with Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good As It Gets, etc. Pakula’s credits include All the President’s Men, Sophie’s Choice, and The Pelican Brief (among several others)—1979’s Starting Over features […]
Blu-ray Review: Stick
Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, Burt Reynolds directs and stars in, Stick aa Ernest “Stick” Stickney an ex-con just out of prison after a seven-year stint for armed robbery. No sooner has he arrived home in Florida, Stick decides to accompany a friend on a drug deal. Unfortunately, the drug deal goes bad, and […]
DVD Review: The Twilight Zone – The Complete Fourth Season
Rod Serling’s seminal 1959-64 series The Twilight Zone has been released on stellar, definitive DVD and Blu-ray packages. For those who have found the previous releases a bit pricey, Image Entertainment has been re-releasing the individual seasons on DVD without special features at an affordable price. August 6, 2013 will see the release of The […]
Blu-ray Review: Deliverance (40th Anniversary Digibook)
Based on the novel by James Dickey, Hollywood just can’t make movies as brutal and uncompromising as like John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972) anymore. Rough and unflinching in its violence, Deliverance is a movie that reminds us that anyone of us could end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. The story introduces us […]
Blu-ray Review: The Cannonball Run
In my tween years, 1981’s The Cannonball Run was on HBO so much, you’d have thought Burt Reynolds and his buddy Dom DeLuise were running the company. For me, Burt and Dom could do no wrong, the movie was hilarious. Tomboy that I was, The Cannonball Run had it all—fast cars, cars exploding, racing, off […]
Blu-ray Review: Boogie Nights
New Line Cinema | 1997 | 155 mins. | Rated R “Everyone is blessed with one special thing,” says Mark Wahlberg as Boogie Nights’ Dirk Diggler, a rising star in the pre-AIDS heyday of 1970s porn. And Dirk’s special thing is his special thing. That is—and there’s no way to put this politely—his massive member, […]