Blu-ray Review: Dillinger (MGM)
Screenwriter John Milius, who penned Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn, among others, made his feature length directorial debut with Dillinger starring Warren Oates in the title role. Released in 1973, American International Pictures hoped to capitalize on the success of Bonnie and Clyde, released just a few years earlier. A moderate success at the box […]
Blu-ray Review: Pretty in Pink (Paramount Presents Edition)
Following the success of Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, filmmaker John Hughes explored teen angst once again, with Pretty in Pink. Premiering on the U.S.A. on January 29, 1986, screenwriter John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) showed he continued to have his finger on the pulse of that era’s youth. Not afraid to showcase […]
Blu-ray Review: Repo Man (Criterion Collection)
A true loner, writer/director Alex Cox has zealously avoided participating in mainstream Hollywood films throughout his career. One look at Cox’s best known film, 1984’s Repo Man, makes it clear that he is not a filmmaker concerned with being conventional. Repo Man defies categorization. There’s humor. But it’s not comedy in the strictest sense. It’s […]
Blu-ray Review: Two-Lane Blacktop (Criterion Collection)
An extension of the themes that dominated films of the late 1960’s—youthful alienation and disillusionment—1971’s Two-Lane Blacktop is set against the vast, open spaces of America’s highways. Director Monte Hellman, a veteran of the Roger Corman school of filmmaking (Corman also helped to launch the directing careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard and Peter […]
Blu-ray Review: Rango
Director Gore Verbinski reteams with his Pirates of the Caribbean star, Johnny Depp, for Rango, an animated Western featuring a lizard as its unlikely hero. This wickedly imaginative and original film pays loving tribute to nearly every western master, including John Ford and especially the “man with no name,” Clint Eastwood. As the film begins, […]
RANGO arrives on Blu-ray/DVD combo July 15th
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray/DVD release of Rango, the Industrial Light & Magic computer-animated film from director Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean) that earned more than $230 million at the worldwide box office earlier this year. Johnny Depp voices Rango, a chameleon who dreams of being a fearless hero and gets […]