Blu-ray Review: A Dog’s Purpose
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Blu-ray Review: Postcards from the Edge
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Breaking Away (Blu-ray)
The summer after graduating from high school four friends in Bloomington, Indiana—Dave (Dennis Christopher), Mike (Dennis Quaid), Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley), and Cyril (Daniel Stern) are trying to find some direction in their lives. An accomplished cyclist, Dave dreams of competing against the Italians who are the best in the world. He even pretends to […]
Any Given Sunday (15th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray)
As another football season kicks off this week, it seems appropriate that Warner Brothers should release a 15th anniversary edition of Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday. Violent and in-your-face, this is a look at professional football as only Oliver Stone could present it. Unapologetically loud, Stone uses every cinematic trick in the book to draw […]
The Right Stuff (Blu-ray)
Adapted from Tom Wolfe’s engrossing book, it’s still hard to believe that The Right Stuff wasn’t one of the biggest hits of 1983. One explanation might have been that former astronaut and veteran Ohio Senator John Glenn was gearing up for a run at the White House the next year, and many moviegoers saw the […]
Blu-ray Review: Footloose (2011)
While more than twenty-five years have passed since Footloose made its theatrical debut in February of 1984, one has to wonder why Hollywood felt it needed the remake treatment. While the music might sound a bit dated for some, the title song (among others), still has a zippy feel for the mid-eighties that any MTV […]
Blu-ray Review: The Long Riders
After honing his writing skills on small, independent documentaries, and getting experience as an assistant director on major box-office hits such as The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Bullitt (1968), Walter Hill became a real force in Hollywood with the screenplays for Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway (1972) and The Drowning Pool (1975). By the 1970’s, […]