4K UHD Review: Jack Reacher
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Blu-ray Review: Blaze (1989)
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God’s Pocket (Blu-ray)
After directing several episodes of Mad Men, John Slattery makes his film directing debut with God’s Pocket, one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final roles. Adapted by Slattery and Alex Metcalf from Pete Dexter’s first novel, the film takes its name from the bleak, working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia where the story plays out. The people who […]
Blu-ray Review: The Company You Keep
Robert Redford’s first movie role since 2005 and his ninth directorial effort, The Company You Keep, based on the novel by Neil Gordon, is a fictionalized account of the radical anti-war movement called the Weather Underground. Old news footage at the beginning of the film informs us that members of the group were charged with […]
Blu-ray Review: Jack Reacher
Based on the Lee Child novel One Shot, Jack Reacher hits the ground running. A man drives to a parking deck overlooking the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh, loads a sniper rifle with handmade bullets, and kills five people walking along the riverbank. The cops arrest James Barr (Joseph Sikora), a solider with a violent […]
Blu-ray Review: Hall Pass
Best known for the raunchy comedy style that made Dumb and Dumber, and There’s Something About Mary box office hits in the 1990’s, Bobby and Peter Farrelly have struggled to recapture the magic that made those films so popular. After a decade of helming mostly softer fare—Fever Pitch (2005), and The Heartbreak Kid—to lukewarm reviews […]
Blu-ray Review: Dear John
Sony Pictures | 2010 | 108 mins. | Rated PG-13 Author Nicholas Sparks has unquestionably cornered the market on angst filled romance cinema. As the lovers in his previous films The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Nights In Rodanthe have shown, staying together is never easy. Somehow, debilitating diseases, war and natural disasters always […]