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 […]
Blu-ray Review: Tough Guys
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Death of A Salesman (1985) (Collector’s Edition) (Blu-ray)
A 1949 play by Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the Tony for Best Play. Considered one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, over the years, Death of a Salesman has been made into an American feature film, revived on Broadway four times and spawned […]
Blu-ray Review: Dick Tracy
Scripted by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. and directed by Warren Beatty, Dick Tracy got a lot of press prior to its 1990 release for its dynamic approach to filmmaking. The special effects were mind-boggling for the time and the make-up, very impressive. Dick Tracy was expected to be a real blockbuster, but Disney […]
Blu-ray Review: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
Loosely adapted from novelist Walter Wager’s 1971 thriller, Viper Three, Twilight’s Last Gleaming sets up an improbable plot, but still manages to be an interesting film with clearly more in mind than being just a standard thriller. Directed by Robert Aldrich, a man who brought his liberal humanist thematic vision to many of his films, […]
Blu-ray Review: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A period piece road picture about a trio of ex-cons who wind their way around the state of Mississippi during the Great Depression, the basic premise of O Brother, Where Art Thou? seems ideally suited for the Coens’ oeuvre, combining quirky characters and ridiculous situations. Though inspired by equal parts Homer’s The Odyssey and Preston […]