Blu-ray Review: My Best Friend is a Vampire (Collector’s Series)
Likely influenced by the popularity of Michael Jackson’s video for Thriller, teenage monster movies were all the rage throughout the 1980’s. Movies like Teen Wolf, Fright Night and The Lost Boys ruled the box office. More obscure but fondly regarded by many, My Best Friend is a Vampire stars Robert Sean Leonard as high schooler […]
Blu-ray Review: The Last Days of Disco (Criterion Collection)
Released in 1998, The Last Days of Disco was the last film in writer/director Wilt Stillman’s trilogy of occasionally dark social comedies about the so-called “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” (UHB), a group of white, young, East coast, Ivy-league league elites. Set in the early 1980’s, the movie follows a rag-tag group of people all caught up […]
Blu-ray Review: Dead Poets Society
Many who’ve been through high school had a teacher who affected them in a way no other one could; a teacher who makes a real honest-to-goodness impact on a student’s life. Perhaps that explains the enduring popularity of Dead Poets Society, the 1989 coming of age story directed by veteran Australian filmmaker Peter Weir. At […]
Dead Poets Society and Good Morning, Vietnam Heading to Blu-ray
Disney has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Barry Levinson’s Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), starring Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, and Tung Thanh Tran, and Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society (1989), starring Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Josh Charles. The two releases will hit retail shelves on January 17th. Special Features: […]