Blu-ray Review: Film Focus—Gene Hackman
In a career that spanned nearly sixty years and included two Oscars and four Golden Globe awards, Gene Hackman is consider one of the great actors of his era. He appeared in some of the biggest films of the 1960’s and ‘70s including Bonnie and Clyde, Downhill Racer, The French Connection and Prime Cut, just […]
The Great Escape Charges on to Blu-ray May 7th
LOS ANGELES, CA (March 25, 2013) – In celebration of the birthday of iconic Hollywood legend Steve McQueen who would have turned 83-years-old yesterday, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are proud to announce that The Great Escape will arrive on Blu-ray for the first time on May 7, 2013. Directed by Academy […]
Blu-ray Review: The Magnificent Seven
A cowboy retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven marked the transition from the old style John Ford/John Wayne films to the spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood that would change the genre forever. Released in 1960, The Magnificent Seven contains elements that audiences at the time were used to—gunfights, and bandits—however, unlike previous […]