Tag: Sigourney Weaver

4K UHD Review: Galaxy Quest

Twenty-five years old, Galaxy Quest remains one of the best sci-fi comedies ever made. To call it a simple spoof of Star Trek is belittling. Written by David Howard and Robert Gordon and directed by Dean Parisot, the film has…

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Blu-ray Review: Call Jane

A well-known playwright who made a name for herself in film with the screenplay for Todd Haynes’s Carol, Phyllis Nagy makes her directorial debut with Call Jane. Timely, the film demonstrates the implications of overturning Roe vs. Wade. While Call…

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Blu-ray Review: The Good House

Adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name, The Good House is an intriguing drama, elevated by the presence of Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline. Weaver stars as Hildy Good, a dogged and successful real estate agent in the…

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Vamps (2012)

Blu-ray Review: Vamps (2012)

Writer/director Amy Heckerling made a name for herself in the ‘80s and ‘90s with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking and Clueless. After her last two features, 2000’s Loser and 2007’s I Could Never Be Your Woman were…

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Blu-ray Review: Paul (U.K. Edition)

Region Free | U.K. Triple Play Clive (Nick Frost) and Graeme (Simon Pegg) are British science fiction geeks. As such, they make a pilgrimage to Comic-Con in San Diego. Not content to simply revel in nerdom, the guys take to…

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Blu-ray Review: You Again

Touchstone Pictures | 2010 | 105 mins. | PG Kristen Bell made her name playing a high school outcast as the title character on televisions Veronica Mars. From there, in the movie Fanboys, she slipped comfortably into a Princess Leia…

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Blu-ray Review: The Alien Anthology

20th Century Fox | 1979-1997 | 552 mins. | R Most film fans know all about the Alien Anthology. At the heart of it all is a simple, yet bold and original idea. The mother of all extraterrestrials terrorizes a…

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