Tag: Nicole Kidman

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…

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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),…

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The Goldfinch

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…

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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…

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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,…

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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),…

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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…

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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…

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