Spotlight (Blu-ray)
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, Spotlight manages a fairly low-key vibe while dealing with a very difficult subject. Exceptional writing and an outstanding ensemble cast recount the true story about a group of newspaper journalists who exposed a massive child molestation scandal within the Boston Archdiocese that sent shock waves throughout the Catholic […]
Blu-ray Review: Kate & Leopold (Director’s Cut)
In this slight but inoffensive rom-com from writer-director James Mangold, we’re introduced to Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten, Duke of Albany (Hugh Jackman). Leopold is living in New York in the year 1876 and on the cusp of becoming engaged to someone he doesn’t love in order to please his father. When he […]
Blu-ray Review: Defiance
Director Edward Zwick seems to enjoy making films featuring difficult moral issues and plots driven on the ambiguity of authority and on individual conscience as the ultimate arbiter of truth. It was during the success of Thirtysomething, a television series he created with friend Marshall Herskovitz, that Zwick had his first big screen success with […]
DVD Review: Chicago 10
Few would deny that 1968 was one of the most turbulent years in American history. Martin Luther King had been assassinated in April, Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed in June, an unpopular war in Vietnam had be a catalyst in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision not to seek another […]