4K UHD Review: Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick was a man of unique vision. He often spent years on a single film, meticulously fine-tuning every detail until he achieved the perfection he expected. Time has been kind to his latter-day films. What once were considered disappointing and inferior to his earlier masterpieces are now being reconsidered, more than twenty years after […]

Blu-ray Review: Rings

[amazon_link asins=’B01MTF2WGZ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5254e79d-3a75-11e7-95ea-ffcbfc2bbe67′] Samara has gone digital! VHS, her vengeful format of choice was already on borrowed time in 2002, when Rings, Gore Verbinski’s Japanese horror remake hit theaters. Fifteen years later, as the franchise resurfaces with Rings, do kids even remember VCR’s? It’s all good though; director For. Javier Gutierrez has […]

The Player (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

A stubbornly independent filmmaker, director Robert Altman was known for making films that no one else dared to touch. MASH, one of Altman’s biggest successes, had been passed over by over a dozen other filmmakers. It was a difficult shoot, but Altman took on the challenge.  In an admission that was decidedly un-Hollywood, Altman said […]

Blu-ray Review: Full Metal Jacket (25th Anniversary Digi-Book)

Stanley Kubrick was a man of unique vision. He often spent years on a single film, meticulously fine-tuning every last detail until he achieved the perfection he expected. Time has been kind to his latter day films. What once were considered disappointing and inferior to his earlier masterpieces are now being reconsidered, nearly fifteen years […]

DVD Review: Law & Order – Criminal Intent, The Seventh Year

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You’ve arrived in New Mexico after a long drive, or Cleveland for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, or Las Vegas after a very long, stressful flight. As much as you would like to see what the nightlife offers, you’re just too tired, even for the Las Vegas Strip. You check into […]