Blu-ray Review: The Kitchen
New York City, 1978. Three women are the best of friends and married to gangsters. Cathy (Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) is a stay at home mother; Ruby (Tiffany Haddish) has a racist mother-in-law (Margo Martindale); and Claire (Elisabeth Moss) is regularly beaten by her bully of a husband. When their spouses are […]
4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Ex Machina
[amazon_link asins=’B06XXCZLRD’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6dd9157c-52b9-11e7-aca6-c5967a2e69f0′] An accomplished screenwriter with credits like 28 Days Later, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a science fiction film that imagines a rather scary future with artificial intelligence, and its interactions with human life. Written by Garland, Ex Machina follows […]
Brooklyn (Blu-ray)
Based on the 2009 award winning novel of the same name, Brooklyn is the kind of movie that doesn’t get made very much anymore. Character driven, and filled with heart, Brooklyn is a brilliant coming of age story of an Irish immigrant girl in the 1950s. It’s an old fashioned love story that fits any […]
Unbroken (Blu-ray)
Based on the book of the same name by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken is the true story of American Olympian Louis Zamperini struggle to survive as a Japanese prisoner of war and his steadfast refusal to use his notoriety to satisfy the demands of his enemies. Director Angelina Jolie does a fine job of crafting an […]
Blu-ray Review: True Grit (2010)
Most of the time I detest remakes; however, True Grit proves they don’t have to be bad. The Coen Brothers’ interpretation of the 1968 Charles Portis novel is superior in almost every way to the 1969 Henry Hathaway version. While no actor could ever hope to eclipse John Wayne’s performance as Marshall Rooster Cogburn (the […]