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: Film Focus—Gene Hackman
In a career that spanned nearly sixty years and included two Oscars and four Golden Globe awards, Gene Hackman is consider one of the great actors of his era. He appeared in some of the biggest films of the 1960’s and ‘70s including Bonnie and Clyde, Downhill Racer, The French Connection and Prime Cut, just […]
Blu-ray Review: Book Club – The Next Chapter (Collector’s Edition)
Released in 2018, Book Club centers on four female friends who find their lives turned upside down while their book club reads the infamous “50 Shades of Grey.” Featuring an all-star cast, including Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen, the four women are bound by a fifty-year friendship as they go through […]
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 […]
Blu-ray Review: The Group
A depression era soap opera centered on eight female 1933 graduates of Vassar College, The Group is based on Mary McCarthy’s novel of the same name. As economic hardship grips the country, these girls, their families, and friends remain largely isolated; concerned not about jobs or affording their next meal but finding the proper man […]