4K UHD Review: Interstellar (10th Anniversary Limited Edition)
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 seeing it in the sprawling space of a darkened theater.” While that statement still has […]
4K UHD Review: Interstellar
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4K UHD Blu-ray Review: The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
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4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Sing
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I Am Evel Knievel (Blu-ray)
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 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. Recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, the documentary I Am Evel Knievel […]
Interstellar (Blu-ray)
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 is Nolan’s best film, it’s certainly his most ambitious, combining elements from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, […]
Blu-ray Review: Magic Mike
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, the movie is actually much more than that, with only about 15 minutes of the […]
Blu-ray Review: Dazed and Confused (Criterion Collection)
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 vogue, drinking and driving hadn’t become taboo, and safe sex only meant preventing pregnancy and […]
Blu-ray Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
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 crank out a series of romantic comedies. Since 2003, McConaughey has starred in How to […]
Blu-ray Review: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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 Hudson’s big break came in 2000’s Almost Famous. In the Oscar nominated role she played […]