4K UHD Review: Titanic (1997)
Before its release, many critics predicted that Titanic would be a huge box office disappointment, especially since it was the most expensive film ever made at the time. As we know, upon its release in 1997, Titanic became a box office sensation raking in $2,185,372,302 worldwide. It proceeded to garner eleven Academy Awards, including Oscars […]
4K UHD: Shutter Island SteelBook Review
[The review of the movie itself was taken from the 2010 Blu-ray. A/V and Extras have been updated — RW] A boat emerges out of a thick, dense fog; two men in fedoras are aboard, chain smoking and discussing the reason for their uncomfortable ferry ride—one is clearly more fidgety than the other, at one […]
Blu-ray Review: The Great Gatsby (2013)
Widely recognized as one of great American novels of the 20th century, there have been several attempts to turn F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby into a film (most famously the 1974 version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow). However, none have quite succeeded in capturing the sense of magic that surrounds the characters in […]
Blu-ray Review: Catch Me If You Can
A lively caper inspired by true events, Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can never takes itself too seriously. Though classified a drama, the story contains enough comedy to keep viewers giggling at every turn. It also helps that the two leads, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, are capable of easily switching between drama and […]
Catch Me If You Can Arrives on Blu-ray December 4th
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – The extraordinary true story of a brilliant master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail makes its high definition debut when CATCH ME IF YOU CAN arrives on Blu-ray December 4, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Oscar®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks star in the “supremely […]
Blu-ray Review: Titanic
Before its release, many critics predicted that Titanic would be a huge box office disappointment, especially since it was the most expensive film ever made at the time. As we know, upon its release in 1997, Titanic became a box office sensation raking in $2,185,372,302 worldwide. It went on to garner eleven Academy Awards, including […]
Blu-ray Review: J. Edgar
One of the most divisive figures of the 20th century, J. Edgar Hoover was a complicated man. He built the FBI and stayed in power for nearly forty years, until his death. While he recognized early on the need for a more efficient and scientific way to fight crime, it would be Hoover’s obsession with […]
Blu-ray Review: Inception
Warner Bros.| 2010 | 148 mins. | PG-13 Hot off the stunning achievement that was The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan could have easily cashed a big check by attaching himself to a pre-existing project. Instead, he took on an original project of his own making that can only be described as massive in scope. […]
Blu-ray Review: Shutter Island
Paramount Pictures | 2010 | 138 min | Rated R As any fan of Martin Scorsese likely knows, the accomplished director is also a lifelong student of the history of film. Watching the first frames of his latest effort, I couldn’t help but feel like it came right out of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. A […]
Blu-ray Review: The Basketball Diaries
Palm Pictures | 1995 | 102 mins. | Rated R Over the years, several writers had tried to adapt Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries for the big screen. Published in 1978, the novel tells the gripping story of his battle with drug addiction but no writer had been able to find away to make his […]