4K UHD Review: Cutter’s Way (Limited Edition)
Originally titled Cutter and Bone, the script by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin found its way to Paul Gurian, a neophyte producer with a couple of short films and a TV movie on his resume. Based on a novel by Newton Thornburg, and released in 1981, the retitled Cutter’s Way was a box office failure, despite widespread […]
Blu-ray Review: Winter Kills
Winter Kills William Richert’s adaptation of Richard Condon’s novel “Winter Kills”–a thinly veiled look at the John F. Kennedy assassination–grounded in dark political satire was plagued with production issues including a mafia hit on one producer, a forty-year prison sentence handed down to another, production was halted several times. When the film was finally released, […]
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (Blu-ray)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the memoir of the same name by British journalist Toby Young. The story chronicles his failed attempted at becoming a successful contributor at Conde Nast Publications’ Vanity Fair magazine. Though the movie follows a similar storyline, both the names of the magazine and people Young […]
Fat City (Blu-ray)
Directed by the legendary John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Misfits) the 1972 boxing picture Fat City isn’t your typical tale of triumph over tragedy, but a grim character study of life’s losers. Based on a novel by Leonard Gardner (who also wrote the screenplay), Fat City stars Stacy Keach plays Billy Tully, a 29-year-old […]
The Giver (Blu-ray)
Based on the Young Adult novel by Lois Lowry, a near two decade passion project for actor Jeff Bridges, The Giver is yet another in what has become a bit of a glut in science fiction films set in a dystopian future. In a sense it’s unfortunate, because The Giver was published a little more […]
Blu-ray Review: True Grit (2010)
Most of the time I detest remakes; however, True Grit proves they don’t have to be bad. The Coen Brothers’ interpretation of the 1968 Charles Portis novel is superior in almost every way to the 1969 Henry Hathaway version. While no actor could ever hope to eclipse John Wayne’s performance as Marshall Rooster Cogburn (the […]
THE BIG LEBOWSKI Limited Edition Blu-ray on 8/16
Universal City, May 24, 2011 – Bowling, nihilists, a stolen rug and the occasional acid flashback have never been funnier when one of the most popular cult classics in history, The Big Lebowski Limited Edition, debuts on Blu-ray™ August 16, 2011 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. From the Oscar®-winning Coen Brothers (True Grit, Fargo) and […]
Blu-ray Review: Tron: Legacy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2010 | 127 mins. | PG Back in 1982, Tron was a film ahead of its time. However, when it was announced nearly thirty years later that a sequel was on the way, I wondered whether the whole thing would seem foolishly outdated. The original was somewhat confusing but had […]
Blu-ray Review: Tron
Disney/Buena Vista | 1982 | 96 mins.| PG Released in 1982, Tron was really a movie ahead of its time. In 2011, the idea of artificial intelligence and computer programs interacting with humans in a digital environment seems like a possibility — just look at the modern advances in computer technology — but for moviegoers […]
2010’s True Grit Coming to Blu-ray and DVD
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the western True Grit for Blu-ray release on June 7, in a BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack. This new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis (previously brought to the screen by Henry Hathaway in 1969), was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, although it came out of the Oscar ceremony empty-handed.