Tag: Sam Elliott

Blu-ray Review: The Blue Knight

A 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles police department, Bumper Morgan (William Holden, Sabrina) is just days away from retirement. Years patrolling the streets have left him more than a little jaded, not just by the criminals he’s sworn to protect us from, but the actions of his own, younger colleagues. As the film begins, he is called out to a case involving a murdered

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4K UHD Review: A Star Is Born (2018)

Based on a remake of a remake, Bradley Cooper’s (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) A Star Is Born is a far better movie than I ever dreamed it could be. Cooper, making his directorial debut, not only stars in the film, but was a producer, and co-writer of both the script and some of the songs for the film, and contributed to the score.

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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 murder in the accidental death of a security guard in

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Blu-ray Review: Gettysburg

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, Gettysburg tells the story of four hot days in the summer of 1863, that changed the tide of the Civil War. A densely packed 271-minutes, and featuring over 13,000 volunteer Civil War re-enactors, Gettysburg is a true epic.

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Blu-ray Review: Tombstone

Disney / Buena Vista | 130 mins.| 1993 | Rated R Though Clint Eastwood’s 1992 film Unforgiven was lauded with Oscars—and rightfully so—the 1993 film, Tombstone also stands as one of the finest westerns of the decade. Yes, we’ve seen it all before in John Ford´s My Darling Clementine, in 1946, with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and Victor Mature as Doc Holliday, but I’m

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