4K UHD Review: E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (40th Anniversary Edition)
The 40th anniversary edition of this Steven Spielberg classic looks and sounds great. It also includes two new special features.
4K UHD Blu-ray Review: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
[amazon_link asins=’B073WYP73T’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’43f68703-99a6-11e7-b5b5-17bc19fe115e’]Originally released when I was nine years old, Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra Terrestrial became my favorite movie. I saw it several times, owned many E.T. dolls, and related merchandise. Thirty-five years, and countless movies later, E.T. is no longer my favorite film, but I still love it. E.T., with […]
The Roosevelt’s: An Intimate History (Blu-ray)
Politics has had its share of dynasties—the Adamses, the Kennedy’s, the Bush’s—but none can compare to the Roosevelt’s. Theodore Roosevelt and his fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt served a combined total of nineteen years as President of the United States. Franklin’s wife Eleanor, both admired and reviled, paved the way for many modern women, becoming […]
Southern Comfort (Blu-ray)
Director Walter Hill’s unflinching tale of men pushed to their breaking point, Southern Comfort begins with the simplest of setups. In the opening prologue, a group of weekend warriors for the Louisiana National Guard are sent out for training in the Louisiana bayou. The ostensible leader of the group, Poole (Peter Coyote), is unable to […]
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 […]
Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl Coming to Blu-ray and DVD November 20
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Celebrated documentarian Ken Burns delivers an engrossing chronicle of America’s greatest environmental catastrophe with The Dust Bowl, arriving on Blu-ray and DVD November 20, 2012 from PBS Distribution and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The two-part, four-hour documentary offers a dramatic depiction of how human blindness to the balance of nature destroyed the […]
Blu-ray Review: $5 a Day
Image Entertainment | 2008 | 98 mins. | Rated PG-13 One of the great things about reviewing movies for my own website is that I get to see hundreds of movies a years. While I get to watch my share of blockbusters, I also get to see smaller films, ones that graced theater screens so […]