Released in 2014, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar ranks as one of the greatest contemporary science fiction films. In my 2015 release of the Blu-ray, I wrote that seeing it “at home on a television will not have the same effect as…
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With his flashy, trademark red-white-and-blue jumpsuits (emblazoned with an unforgettable #1 on the right side of his chest) and armed with plenty of bravado to spare, daredevil Evel Knievel became an international icon. Between 1965-1980, Knievel attempted more than 75…
While seeing Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar at home on television will not have the same effect as seeing it in the sprawling space of a darkened theater, it’s still an assault on the senses. While it can be debated whether this…
In the months since the trailer first arrived in theaters, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had Magic Mike described to me as the “Channing Tatum male stripper movie.” While Channing Tatum does play a male stripper,…
Given time, nearly every generation gets a film made about them. Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused is for the survivors of the 1970s: that group of Americans who came of age when bellbottoms, love beads, mantras, and marijuana were in…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 100 mins. | Rated PG-13 In my recent review of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days on Blu-ray, I wrote that Matthew McConaughey had seemed to largely abandon films with serious themes to…
Paramount Pictures | 2003 | 115 mins. | Rated PG-13 Matthew McConaughey got his big break back in 1996 in A Time to Kill, playing a lawyer who defended a black man accused of killing his young daughter’s rapists. Kate…