4K UHD Review: The Peacemaker
Perhaps best known for being the first film from the new Dreamworks Studio, The Peacemaker is rather brave, taking seventeen minutes before anything resembling a well known Hollywood star shows up, or for that matter, the English language. Opening with the hijacking of a locomotive, the picture announces itself as an unpredictable actioner with worldwide […]
Blu-ray Review: The Others (Criterion Collection)
Executive produced by Tom Cruise, 2001’s The Others marked the last collaboration between him and Nicole Kidman prior to their divorce. Set in the British Isles 1945, Grace (Nicole Kidman) and her children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), live in a grand English home. It serves as a kind of fortress as they […]
Blu-ray Review: The Goldfinch
13-year old Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley) and his mother Audrey (Hailey Wist) are visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art when a terrorist bomb explodes. The explosion leaves his mother dead. Surrounded by debris and dead bodies, Theo does two things that will have long term ramifications. He comforts a dying old man who gives him […]
Blu-ray Review: Stoker
Park Chan-wook is one of the most popular directors’s in his native Korea and a cult figure here in America largely due to 2004’s Oldboy, fans have been anxiously awaiting his English-language debut. Though it took longer than some would have liked, Stoker was likely the perfect choice. While the violence is toned down, relative […]
Blu-ray Review: Hemingway & Gellhorn
A rather conventional biopic about a decidedly unconventional couple, Philip Kaufman’s HBO telefilm Hemingway & Gellhorn traces the tumultuous relationship between writers Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. Two of America’s most respected novelists and war correspondents of the 20th century, their relationship unfolded in the midst of great upheaval. The story is told from Martha […]
Blu-ray Review: The Others
Executive produced by Tom Cruise, 2001’s The Others marked the last collaboration between him and Nicole Kidman prior to their divorce. Set in the British Isles 1945, Grace (Nicole Kidman) and her children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), live in a grand, English home. It serves as a kind of fortress as they […]
Blu-ray Review: Moulin Rouge
20th Century Fox | 2001 | 128 mins. | PG-13 After decades of box office dominance, the movie musical fell largely out of favor. With the exception of a couple of notable Disney productions, many studios seemed to abandon the musical genre altogether. Writer/director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo & Juliet, Australia) has never been a man […]
Blu-ray Review: Nine
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 119 mins. | Rated PG-13 An adaptation of the Maury Yeston-Arthur Kopit Tony winning stage musical, Nine seemed like a sure-fire hit. Directed by Rob Marshall, who steered Chicago to a Best Picture Oscar in 2002;. Packed with kinetic choreography (by Marshall himself), melodic songs, and a substantive story based […]