Blu-ray Review: Juggernaut (1974)
Another of the disaster flicks that seemed to dominate the 1970’s, Juggernaut takes place aboard a massive luxury cruise ship called the The Britannic. With twelve hundred passengers aboard, the latest voyage appears typical. No one, least of all Captain Alex Brunel (Omar Sharif), the social director Curtain (Roy Kinnear) or a female passenger named […]
Blu-ray Review: Naked Lunch (Criterion Collection)
Long thought to be impossible to film, David Cronenberg’s interpretation of the William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch is undoubtedly a peculiar movie. However, given Cronenberg’s apparent enjoyment of the grotesque—this is the guy who made The Fly, and Dead Ringers—he was the perfect guy to take on the buglike beings referred to in Naked Lunch. […]
Blu-ray Review: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey
Director Peter Jackson has returned to Middle Earth with co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to the big screen over the course of three films. Certainly, the question of whether a 310 page novel needs three films is a fair one, as we consider the first offering in the […]
The Lord of the Rings The Motion Picture Trilogy Launch Celebration
Burbank, Calif., June 17, 2011 — On June 28, Warner Home Video will release all three of Peter Jackson’s visual masterpieces on Blu-ray in a 15-disc stunning collection entitled The Lord of the Rings™ The Motion Picture Trilogy: Extended Edition. To celebrate the occasion, Warner Home Video has announced a count-down to “Middle-earth Midnight Madness” […]