4K UHD Review: The Mirror Crack’d
With the success of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, it’s no surprise that the same group of producers would forge ahead with another tale by Agatha Christie, this one featuring Miss Marple. Based on the 1962 novel The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, 1980’s The Mirror Crack’d stars Angela […]
DVD Review: Diary of a Nymphomaniac
MPI Home Video | 2009 | 101 mins. | Not Rated Adapted from the novel Insatiable: The Sexual Adventures of a French Girl in Spain, by Valerie Tasso, Diary of a Nymphomaniac seems to be erotica with a philosophy. An affirmation of promiscuity over marriage, the film takes a frank an unapologetic look at one […]
Blu-ray Review: Doctor Zhivago
Fresh of the success of Lawrence of Arabia, British director David Lean tackled another epic; Doctor Zhivago based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Boris Pasternak. After what he viewed as the action-adventure tone of Lawrence of Arabia, Lean wanted to make a grand, yet more romantic film to balance things out. Producer Carlo […]
DVD Review: Chaplin -15th Anniversary Edition
Over ninety years after Charlie Chaplin introduced moviegoers to The Little Tramp in 1914, the character still remains one of the most recognizable figures in films today. Chaplin himself is sighted by many comedians as an inspiration for their work. Comedian Buster Keaton, who had a healthy professional rivalry with Chaplin, wrote in his autobiography […]