Blu-ray Review: Mildred Pierce (2011 TV mini-series, Collector’s Edition)
Many are familiar with the story of Mildred Pierce as told in Michael Curtiz’s classic 1945 film starring Joan Crawford in her Oscar winning role. Though that film was based on the 1941 James M. Cain novel, many changes were made to the story before it hit the screen. If you’ve never read the novel, […]
HBO’s Mildred Pierce Coming to Blu-ray and DVD January 3, 2012
HBO Home Entertainment will bring Mildred Pierce to Blu-ray and DVD next January. In an Emmy Award-winning performance, Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) stars in the title role, a divorced housewife trying to successfully navigate through various personal and professional struggles against the backdrop of Los Angeles during the Depression. Chief among […]
Blu-ray Review: The Conspirator
Set just after the April 15, 1865, assassination of Abraham Lincoln, The Conspirator attempts to recreate the hysteria and shady political dealings that took place in order to hold someone, anyone responsible for the hideous crime. Nearly everyone knows Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a disgruntled Confederate actor. What many of us didn’t […]
Blu-ray Review: Whatever Works
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 92 mins. | Rated PG-13 Woody Allen has been making films that run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies for over forty years. While he usually took the lead roles in his projects, for the last decade or so, Allen has been happy to write the scripts and […]