4K UHD Review: The Searchers
Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), who fought for the Confederacy, returns home to Texas and the family ranch several years after the war has ended. Nobody has any idea why Ethan is home, but he quickly finds himself swept up in controversy. After dozens of cattle are stolen from local homesteads, the local […]
4K UHD Review: Rebel Without A Cause
Originally envisioned by Warner Brothers as a B-movie project, Rebel Without A Cause director Nicholas Ray began shooting the movie in black-and-white film stock. That is, until studio head Jack Warner realized that James Dean was a star in the making. The film was reshot in color and Cinemascope and the rest is history. Released […]
Blu-ray Review: Inside Daisy Clover
Inside Daisy Clover, a fictional tale about a child star in the 1930’s, stars Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover. A fifteen-year-old tomboy, she lives with her senile mother Lucile (Ruth Gordon) on the beach, selling forged autographed pictures of movie stars to passerby. Expressive and quick to anger, Daisy smokes cigarettes, writes graffiti, and uses […]
Blu-ray Review: Marjorie Morningstar
[amazon_link asins=’B06XQK4733′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6fe7933c-3d8d-11e7-b6c2-4df865688a1b’] Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is barely out of high school, but dreaming of becoming an actress. Her loving, but rather conservative parents (Everett Sloan and Claire Trevor) just want her to go to college, and then marry a nice a man. Though Marjorie’s boyfriend Sandy would like to get […]
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Blu-ray)
Largely considered to be one of the best films to come out of Hollywood in the 1940’s, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir still manages to be a deeply affecting love story more than sixty years after its initial theatrical release. The script based on a book by R.A. Dick (a pseudonym for […]
Blu-ray Review: West Side Story
Conceived by Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents as a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story made its Broadway debut on September 26, 1957. Presenting the story as a contemporary musical resulted in an intriguing mix of romance, tragedy, violence, and singing and dancing. Robbins, Bernstein and lyricist Stephen Sondheim […]
West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Edition Coming to Blu-ray November 15th
LOS ANGELES (July 7, 2011) – Five decades after its historic debut, a timeless classic returns to dazzle audiences young and old. Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, the iconic film WEST SIDE STORY returns in brilliant Blu-ray form November 15, 2011 from Twentieth Century Home Entertainment. With a record-breaking ten […]
Blu-ray Review: Miracle on 34th Street
20th Century Fox | 1947 | 96 mins. | Not Rated I’m sure every reviewer will write this, but it needs to be emphasized before I actually discuss the film. Despite the color cover and the text on the back of the case, which claims that this is an “all-new, colorized Blu- ray version,” I […]