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 […]
DVD Review: The Big C – The Complete Second Season
Laura Linney. Alan Alda. Parker Posey. Three of my favorite actors in the same series, the latter two as guest stars. This alone strengthens the argument that the best television shows to be found today are on cable, Showtime in this case. Because of a subscriber base, Showtime and HBO can be more daring, can […]
DVD Review: The Big C – The Complete First Season
Laura Linney is a talented actress, and I’ve liked her in nearly everything that she’s appeared. However, I find myself conflicted about her Showtime series, The Big C. Linney plays Catherine Jamison, a Minneapolis teacher who’s been told she has incurable skin cancer. The young, good-looking doctor who delivers the bad news isn’t sure how […]