4K UHD Review: All the President’s Men
1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward who broke and doggedly investigated the story. What initially seemed like […]
Blu-ray Review: Inside Daisy Clover
Inside Daisy Clover, a fictional tale about a child star in the 1930’s, stars Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover. A fifteen-year-old tomboy, she lives with her senile mother Lucile (Ruth Gordon) on the beach, selling forged autographed pictures of movie stars to passerby. Expressive and quick to anger, Daisy smokes cigarettes, writes graffiti, and uses […]
Pete’s Dragon (2016) (Blu-ray)
The original Pete’s Dragon (1977) came out when I was a kid. I saw it quite a few times growing up and while I never remember considering it a great movie, I thought it was enjoyable fun. Now, almost forty years later, Disney has delivered a reimagining of the film and I had nearly the […]
Disney’s Pete’s Dragon Arrives on Blu-ray Nov. 29th
“Pete’s Dragon,” a reimagining of Disney’s cherished family film centered on an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot — who just so happens to be a dragon — comes home on Nov. 29 on Digital HD, Blu-ray™, Disney Movies Anywhere, DVD and On-Demand. Families will be captivated by this magical movie followed […]
Downhill Racer (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
Though Robert Redford had some big screen success with films such as Inside Daisy Clover (1965), This Property Is Condemned (1966) (both with Natalie Wood), and 1967’s big screen version of Barefoot in the Park with Jane Fonda, his breakout year came in 1969 when the 33-year-old co-starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and […]
All Is Lost (Blu-ray)
There is no overt biblical reference in J.C. Chandor’s (Margin Call) All Is Lost, but it’s hard not to think of Robert Redford’s character as the biblical Job, the man who endures one misery after another, with no justification for his pain, or much information as to who he is. Referred to as “Our Man” […]
All The President’s Men (Blu-ray)
1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward who broke, and doggedly investigated the story. What initially seemed like […]
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 […]
All The President’s Men Getting Blu-ray Digibook Treatment
It was a highpoint of investigative reporting in the 20th century, and the resulting Watergate scandal put the pressure on President Nixon to resign from office–the only American president to do so. All the President’s Men tells the story of reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose investigation beginning with “Deep Throat” ended with the […]
DVD Review: Downhill Racer (Criterion Collection)
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