Blu-ray Review: The Conspirator
Set just after the April 15, 1865, assassination of Abraham Lincoln, The Conspirator attempts to recreate the hysteria and shady political dealings that took place in order to hold someone, anyone responsible for the hideous crime. Nearly everyone knows Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a disgruntled Confederate actor. What many of us didn’t […]
Blu-ray Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 98 min | PG Published in 1843, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of the most adapted novellas in literary history. Filmed numerous times for film and television, adapted for the stage repeatedly, It’s seems that anyone who’s anybody in the annals of pop culture has had […]
Blu-ray Review: Beowulf – Director’s Cut
Beowulf is the oldest surviving poem in the English language. The epic work was written sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries. In the poem, Beowulf battles three rivals: Grendel who is attacking the Danish mead hall known as Heorot and its citizenry; Grendel’s mother; and later in life after returning to Geatland and being […]
DVD Review: Beowulf – The Director’s Cut
Beowulf is the oldest surviving poem in the English language. The epic work was written sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries. In the poem, Beowulf battles three rivals: Grendel who is attacking the Danish mead hall known as Heorot and its citizenry; Grendel’s mother; and later in life after returning to Geatland and being […]