Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut (Blu-ray)
Director Sergio Leone, best known for spaghetti westerns like The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, turned down the chance to direct The Godfather to work on his own mobster epic, Once Upon a Time in America. Ultimately, it took ten years and six script writers from Italy and the […]
Blu-ray Review: Lethal Weapon – The Complete Collection
The Lethal Weapon series is one of the most successful franchises in film history. Debuting in March of 1987, the first film would spawn three sequels and a host of imitators. Lethal Weapon certainly didn’t invent the buddy cop genre, but it certainly helped to tweak them. The pairing of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover […]
Blu-ray Review: Raging Bull (30th Anniversary Edition)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1980 | 129 mins. | R Released on Blu-ray for the first time in 2009, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull returns to high definition for its thirtieth anniversary with some additional special features. As I sit down to write this, my first impulse is to proclaim Raging Bull Martin Scorsese’s greatest film. However, that […]
Blu-ray Review: Goodfellas – 20th Anniversary Edition
Warner Bros. | 1990 | 145 mins. | Rated R Like The Godfather, I have watched Goodfellas at least half a dozen times over the years, and waffled back and forth as to which is the better film. After twenty years, I’ve decided that there may be no clear answer. However, one thing is certain: […]
Blu-ray Review: Raging Bull
As I sit down to write this, my first impulse is to proclaim Raging Bull Martin Scorsese’s greatest film. However, that would be completely unfair. I’m driven to do that just because I just finished watching it. If I declared Raging Bull Scorsese’s best, were would that leave Taxi Driver (1976), Goodfella’s (1990), Cape Fear […]