All The President’s Men (Blu-ray)
1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward who broke, and doggedly investigated the story. What initially seemed like […]
Blu-ray Review: Captain America (1990)
Promoted as Marvel’s answer to Batman, and originally slated for release in 1990 in order to coincide with Captain America’s 50th anniversary, this sloppy and forgettable film was shelved, eventually receiving a direct-to-video release two years later. Given the success of Captain America: First Avenger (2011), it makes sense that the retro pop culture label […]
Blu-ray Review: Deliverance (40th Anniversary Digibook)
Based on the novel by James Dickey, Hollywood just can’t make movies as brutal and uncompromising as like John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972) anymore. Rough and unflinching in its violence, Deliverance is a movie that reminds us that anyone of us could end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. The story introduces us […]
DVD Review: Captain America
Promoted as Marvel’s answer to Batman, and originally slated for release in 1990 in order to coincide with Captain America’s 50th anniversary, this sloppy and forgettable film was shelved, eventually receiving a direct-to-video release two years later. With Captain America: The First Avenger currently in theaters, MGM has gone into the vaults to release Captain […]
Blu-ray Review: Rango
Director Gore Verbinski reteams with his Pirates of the Caribbean star, Johnny Depp, for Rango, an animated Western featuring a lizard as its unlikely hero. This wickedly imaginative and original film pays loving tribute to nearly every western master, including John Ford and especially the “man with no name,” Clint Eastwood. As the film begins, […]
RANGO arrives on Blu-ray/DVD combo July 15th
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray/DVD release of Rango, the Industrial Light & Magic computer-animated film from director Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean) that earned more than $230 million at the worldwide box office earlier this year. Johnny Depp voices Rango, a chameleon who dreams of being a fearless hero and gets […]
DVD Review: Robert Kennedy and His Times
Sony Pictures | 1985 | 315 mins. | NR Adapted from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s biography of the same name, the 1985 mini-series, Robert Kennedy and His Times is one of many tele-films made about the Kennedy’s or a specific member of the clan. This one, produced just seventeen years after Robert’s death, was shown […]
Blu-ray Review: Toy Story 3
Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 103 mins. | G Pixar hit another home run, extending an amazing streak of successes that stretches all the way back to the original Toy Story, which changed the face of feature length animation when it reached theaters in 1995. Now, 15 years after their original debut and 11 years […]