4K UHD Review: Pulp Fiction (30th Anniversary Limited Edition)
Released thirty years ago, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction reshaped American filmmaking and became a cultural phenomenon. Loaded with nods to various film genres and their legendary stars, Pulp Fiction also reignited the career of John Travolta. Filled with well-developed characters, it won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and became a critical […]
4K UHD Review: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Criterion Collection)
Known for their surreal atmospheres and psychological unrest, Terry Gilliam’s films tend to be a love or hate proposition. Love or hate his work, there’s no denying Gilliam’s talent as a storyteller. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was his first film after Brazil and Gilliam’s well documented battle for the final cut. Based on the […]
Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II (Blu-ray)
The final installment of director Lars von Trier’s ‘Depression Trilogy’—following the sadistic, Antichrist (2009) and the apocalyptic-drama, Melancholia (2011)—the two-volume, four-hour psychosexual odyssey, Nymphomaniac has proven to be his most controversial film to date. While occasionally fascinating, Nymphomaniac is hardly the sexy romp the title might suggest. Instead, it’s a sad story about one woman’s […]
Blu-ray Review: Be Cool
F. Gary Gray’s follow up to Barry Sonnenfeld’s Get Shorty, Be Cool is an adaptation of yet another Elmore Leonard novel. Continuing the story of Chili Palmer, Gray’s film lacks much of the black humor and slick charm of the first film but still manages a few laughs. Picking up just after where Get Shorty […]
Pulp Fiction Coming to Blu-ray October 4th
Called “one of the most wanted Blu-ray titles of all time” (IGN) and ranked as such on numerous critics’ lists, Pulp Fiction is “nothing less than a cultural phenomenon” (Moviemaker Magazine). The film was honored with an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay (1994) and earned seven total nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director […]