4K UHD Review: Turbulence
With films like Passenger 57, Executive Decision, Con Air and Air Force One scoring at the box office, the second half of the 1990’s was the age of the Action in an Airplane subgenre. All of them featured all featured action movie stars fighting off a terrorist attack while aboard a plane. None of them […]
Blu-ray Review: Marriage Story (Criterion Collection)
Writer/director Noah Baumbach explored divorce from the perspective of a 16-year-old boy in 2005’s The Squid and The Whale. Marriage Story finds him exploring the deep emotions of a marriage ending from an adult perspective. When the movie begins, Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) are in the process of splitting up. Living in […]
Blu-ray Review: The Son of No One
Every actor stars in a bad movie or two over the course of their career. Sometimes, as in the case with The Son of No One, a handful of talented people end up in a film so bad, you can only shake your head. Directed by Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) The […]
DVD Review: Something Wild
Criterion | 1986 | 113 min | Rated R 1986’s Something Wild is a quirky movie that is often lost in the shuffle of director Jonathan Demme’s filmography. It was his first dramatic film following Swing Shift two years earlier, a terrible experience that caused him to consider leaving filmmaking all together. Fortunately for film […]
Blu-ray Review: Goodfellas – 20th Anniversary Edition
Warner Bros. | 1990 | 145 mins. | Rated R Like The Godfather, I have watched Goodfellas at least half a dozen times over the years, and waffled back and forth as to which is the better film. After twenty years, I’ve decided that there may be no clear answer. However, one thing is certain: […]