Blu-ray Review: Damage (1992)
A visually stunning cautionary tale, Louis Malle’s 1992 film Damage is seen through the eyes of Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons), a proper middle-aged millionaire physician turned Tory member of Parliament. He has a devoted wife Ingrid (Miranda Richardson) to whom he shows obvious affection and two children, Martyn (Rupert Graves), a journalist and precocious teenage […]
Blu-ray Review: Reversal of Fortune
Based on the book by Alan Dershowitz, Reversal of Fortune tells the story of social climber Claus Von Bulow (Jeremy Irons), who was convicted on two counts of attempting to murder his wife Sunny (Glenn Close) with an overdose of insulin. Dershowitz (Ron Silver) agrees to represent him for the retrial. Theories about Von Bulow […]
Blu-ray Review: Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Given the success of the Twilight films, it comes as no surprise that nearly every subsequent movie that has any remote connection to the theme of supernatural romance is compared to the Stephanie Meyer juggernaut. Based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is undoubtedly attempting to fill the void left […]
Blu-ray Review: Brideshead Revisited (30th Anniversary Edition)
One of the finest miniseries ever produced, Brideshead Revisited celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with a three disc Blu-ray set from Acorn Media. Based on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh, the eleven part mini-series won several awards and is considered by many to be one of the best television shows of all time. In 1944 […]
Blu-ray Review: The Lion King (Diamond Edition)
Disney’s 32nd animated feature, 1994’s The Lion King was its darkest since 1985’s The Black Cauldron, and, in many ways, a departure from the light-heartedness of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. There are moments of fun and humor, to be sure, but the undercurrent is of a far more serious, “adult” […]
DVD Review: The Civil War – 150th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
Paramount | 1990 | 680 mins. | NR Though Ken Burns’ 1990 epic documentary, The Civil War has been released on DVD at least twice before, the new “Commemorative Edition” is worth buy if you haven’t already done so. It’s less expensive than previous editions and some retailers are selling it at half that price […]
Blu-ray Review: Dungeons & Dragons/Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God
(2 Movie Collection) Warner Bros. | 2000-2005 | 2 Movies | 212 min | NR First published in 1974, “Dungeons & Dragons” had been the number one role playing game for a quarter of a century as well as a favorite on-line computer simulation when New Line brought it to the big screen in 2000. […]