4K UHD Review: All the President’s Men
1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward who broke and doggedly investigated the story. What initially seemed like […]
4K UHD Review: Donovan’s Reef
The final collaboration between director John Ford and star John Wayne, 1963’s Donovan’s Reef is a family comedy set in set in a fictional place called Haleakaloa where they once fought the Japanese. Not known for his comedic skills, Wayne manages to elicit a few laughs, even if he seems a bit uncomfortable at times. […]
Blu-ray Review Run Silent, Run Deep (Special Edition)
One of the first submarine movies, 1958’s Run Silent, Run Deep still shines more than sixty years after its release. Burt Lancaster stars as Lt. Bledsoe, a man ready to take command of his own sub. At the last minute, he finds out that he’s been passed over in favor of Commander Richardson played by […]
Billy Two Hats (Blu-ray)
The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff’s (Life at the Top, Fun With Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty) Billy Two Hats has made its way to Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Released in 1974, this is a fairly slow-paced affair, but with Gregory Peck and Jack Warden […]
DVD Review: 12 Angry Men (Criterion Collection)
On the face of it, a movie which takes place almost entirely in one room, consists of 12 men who do nothing but talk—and don’t even have names—should be anything but a searing experience. 1957’s 12 Angry Men an undisputed classic, is an inspiring and well crafted masterpiece. The story is a simple one: 12 […]
DVD Review: Billy Two Hats
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1974 | 99 mins. | PG Courtesy of MGM’s “manufacturing on demand” program (“MOD”), 1974’s Billy Two Hats has made its way to DVD. The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff (Life at the Top, Fun With Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty) delivers a fairly slow-paced affair, […]
DVD Review: Robert Kennedy and His Times
Sony Pictures | 1985 | 315 mins. | NR Adapted from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s biography of the same name, the 1985 mini-series, Robert Kennedy and His Times is one of many tele-films made about the Kennedy’s or a specific member of the clan. This one, produced just seventeen years after Robert’s death, was shown […]