You’ll Like My Mother (Blu-ray)

Based on the novel by Naomi Hintze and directed by Lamont Johnson, the 1972 horror-thriller You’ll Like My Mother was a modest commercial success when it hit theaters, but gained a cult following after it was rerun countless times on television, as co-star Richard Thomas had gained fame as John-Boy on The Waltons. While it’s […]

DVD Review: The Walking Tall Trilogy

The late Buford Pusser, a onetime professional wrestler and former Sherriff of McNairy County in Tennessee, gained some national headlines in the mid-sixties when he launched a one man war on the local moonshine rackets, with the help of a large hickory stick. His story inspired three films (the first of which was a bonafide […]

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Coming to Blu-ray in January 2012

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In January 2012, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring To Kill a Mockingbird to Blu-ray.  Director Robert Mulligan’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel stars Gregory Peck  as Atticus Finch, an Alabama lawyer who defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman. Finch’s legal efforts profoundly affect his two young children who are already […]