Blu-ray Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
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Mr. Holmes (Blu-ray)
Over the years there have been countless radio, stage, television and film adaptations of Sherlock Holmes He’s just never gone out of style. Just when I thought it impossible to bring something new and fresh to the character, Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen has accomplished the feat beautifully. Based on the novel A Slight Trick […]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Blu-ray)
While all of The Lord of the Rings films received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, The Hobbit Trilogy hasn’t lived up to those achievements, but nonetheless, had its moments despite obvious flaws. With The Battle of the Five Armies, we are now at the end of Peter Jackson’s odyssey. Unlike The Lord of the Rings […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Extended Edition (3D Blu-ray)
Editor’s Notes: Portions of this review also appear in our coverage of the previous Blu-ray release of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.’ Picking up where An Unexpected Journey left off, just after their escape from a pack of Orcs, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Gandalf the Grey (Sir Ian McKellen), and a band of dwarves […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Blu-ray)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in Peter Jackson’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, is beginning to show the strain of the director’s determination to stretch the adventure into three books. While still enjoyable, Smaug has difficulty maintaining the fantasy for its 161 minute runtime, finding it necessary to resort […]
The Shadow (Collector’s Edition) (Blu-ray)
Based on the very popular 1930’s radio character, original comic books, and several pulp novels, The Shadow stars Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston, the crime fighter “who learned in the Orient the power to cloud men’s minds so they cannot see him.” Once a ruthless drug lord, he’s been trained by Tibetan holy man named […]
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” […]