4K UHD Review: Chinatown / The Two Jakes Blu-ray (Paramount Presents)
One of the best noir films ever made, Chinatown is considered by many to be the finest film of the 1970’s. Though filming began without a finished script, screenwriter Robert Towne ended up crafting a truly original story; one that leaves audiences on edge, unsure where the story will take them next. Chinatown also represents […]
DVD Review: The Arrangement (1969)
Written and directed by Elia Kazan (A Face in the Crowd), The Arrangement, released in 1969, was based on his own bestselling novel of the same name. Having read Kazan’s A Life, it quickly becomes clear that Kazan saw something of himself in the film’s protagonist, Eddie Anderson, a high-flying advertising executive. So, perhaps he’s […]
Blu-ray Review: The Bye Bye Man
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Blu-ray Review: Voyage of the Damned
At first glance, 1976’s Voyage of the Damned must have struck perspective audiences as yet another disaster flick with an all star cast; the kind Irwin Allen, producer of The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) had made so popular at the time. While several of the posters used to advertise the film […]
Blu-ray Review: The Otto Preminger Collection (Hurry Sundown/Skidoo/Such Good Friends)
Otto Preminger directed over 35 films in a film career that spanned more than five decades. Throughout his career, Preminger wasn’t afraid to attract controversy dealing with taboo topics of the era such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, 1962). […]
Blu-ray Review: Chinatown
One of the best noir films ever made, Chinatown is considered by many to be the finest film of the 1970’s. Though filming began without a finished script, screenwriter Robert Towne ended up crafting a truly original story; one that leaves audiences on edge, unsure where the story will take them next. Chinatown also represents […]
Chinatown Debuts on Blu-ray April 3rd
Teeming with murder, corruption, greed and sex, director Roman Polanski’s unforgettable classic Chinatown arrives for the first time ever on Blu-ray April 3, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston, the film follows an intricate web of deception as private investigator Jake Gittes (Nicholson) unravels a mystery involving […]
Blu-ray Review: Little Big Man
Three years after the influential Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn helmed the epic and revisionist Western, Little Big Man. Based on the novel Thomas Berger and adapted for the screen by Calder Willingham Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack Crabb, a man whose various adventures take him back and forth between the Native American and […]
Blu-ray Review: Network
Warner Bros. | 1976 | 121 mins. | R When director Sidney Lumet and writer Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was released back in 1976, it was regarded as biting satire. Strangely, given our current obsession with reality television, the thought of a network playing to the lowest common denominator with lesbian cops, psychics, and unstable news […]
DVD Review: Arizona Dream
Warner Bros. | 1993 | 140 mins. | Not Rated I’ve been sitting here trying to come up with a clever way to describe Arizona Dream. In the end, I’ve decided it’s just one of those strange little films that probably deserved to be seen by more people than it was. Now, since the cast […]