Blu-ray Review: Gods and Generals
The prequel to Gettysburg, Gods and Generals is well intentioned. Director Ronald F. Maxwell’s dedication to the era is unquestionable. Unfortunately, his love for the subject has led to a bloated project that feels like a mediocre mini-series rather than a movie.
Blu-ray Review: Network
Warner Bros. | 1976 | 121 mins. | R When director Sidney Lumet and writer Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was released back in 1976, it was regarded as biting satire. Strangely, given our current obsession with reality television, the thought of a network playing to the lowest common denominator with lesbian cops, psychics, and unstable news […]
Blu-ray Review: True Grit
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard to argue with—long a box office superstar, True Grit was Wayne’s 139th film, and only […]
Blu-ray Review: THX 1138 – The George Lucas Director’s Cut
Warner Bros. | 1971/2004 | 88 mins. | R In truth, THX 1138: The George Lucas Director’s Cut isn’t the original, 1971 film considering the CGI and other enhancements that have been added. For anyone who saw the original film, this 2004 release may feel much like an entirely new film. Lucas has incorporated manipulated […]
Blu-ray Review: Crazy Heart
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 112 mins. | Rated R Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) doesn´t just write and sing great country songs, he lives them. Bad drives a beat up pickup truck, has four ex wives, an estranged son, and really likes his bourbon. And as for money, well, as Bad says: “I´m 57, […]
DVD Review: Crazy Heart
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 112 mins. | Rated R Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) doesn´t just write and sing great country songs, he lives them. Bad drives a beat up pickup truck, has four ex wives, an estranged son, and really likes his bourbon. And as for money, well, as Bad says: “I´m 57, […]