My Name Is Nobody (Blu-ray)

Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name Trilogy—A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)—made a movie star out of Clint Eastwood, but by the early 1970’s the spaghetti western had fallen out of favor with Hollywood and audiences alike. Like a lot of […]

Blu-ray Review: The Battle of Algiers

First released in 1967 against a backdrop of violence in American cities, The Battle of Algiers (Battaglia di Algeri, La) was hailed by the Black Panther Party and other radical leftist groups as a handbook for urban revolution. In 2003, the Pentagon hosted a special screening of the film, in hopes it would shed light […]