Tag: Joan Allen

4K UHD Review: Face/Off

If I were to make a list of the worst trailers ever, John Woo’s Face/Off would be on it. The clip turned me off so much, I avoided the film in theaters. It was only after countless recommendations from friends

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Nixon (1995)

Blu-ray Review: Nixon (3-Disc Special Edition)

Kino Lorber Studio Classics recently released a three-disc Special Edition of Oliver Stone’s 1995 film, Nixon. It contains both the original 191-minute Theatrical Cut (premiering for the first time in HD on a Blu-ray disc) and the extended 212-minute Director’s

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Room (2015) (Blu-ray)

Room is not just a film. but an experience. Both a nightmare and a fairytale, I found myself occasionally laughing while on the edge of crying. An adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s acclaimed novel, and penned by the author herself, Room

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Manhunter

Blu-ray Review: Manhunter

Michael Mann’s Manhunter was such a box office disappointment—just $8.6 million—when it was released in 1986 that when author Thomas Harris wrote a sequel two years later, producer Dino DeLaurentis agreed to loan Orion Pictures the rights to adapt it

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