Tag: Omar Sharif

Blu-ray Review: Juggernaut (1974)

Another of the disaster flicks that seemed to dominate the 1970’s, Juggernaut takes place aboard a massive luxury cruise ship called the The Britannic. With twelve hundred passengers aboard, the latest voyage appears typical. No one, least of all Captain…

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The Night of the Generals (Blu-ray)

An English language film about World War II told from the German perspective, The Night of the Generals isn’t about combat, but murder. Based loosely on a novel of the same name by German author Hans Hellmut Kirst. Due to…

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Funny Lady (Blu-ray)

Released seven years after Funny Girl made Barbra Streisand an Oscar winning movie star, Funny Lady had an uneasy production history. Though contractually obligated to do another movie for producer Ray Stark, Streisand balked at doing the film, reportedly telling…

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Blu-ray Review: Ashanti (1979)

Michael Caine has often claimed that 1979’s Ashanti was was “the only film (he) did purely for the money” as well as “the worst film he ever starred in.” The last point could certainly be debated, but there’s no denying…

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Blu-ray Review: Doctor Zhivago

Fresh of the success of Lawrence of Arabia, British director David Lean tackled another epic; Doctor Zhivago based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Boris Pasternak. After what he viewed as the action-adventure tone of Lawrence of Arabia, Lean…

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