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April/25/09 10:01 PM
Arriving
on a Blu-ray, Frost/Nixon offered me the chance
solidify my memories while allowing viewers to
appreciate every high definition ounce of sweat
clinging to the lip actor Frank Langella, as the
controversial president. Read
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April/18/09 04:23 PM
In
The Spirit, Frank Miller brings the life and
times of the very humanistic Denny Colt, a
Central City Cop reanimated from an early death,
to the screen.
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April/08/09 10:18 PM
Meryl
Streep is my first lady of cinema. Anytime she
gets screen time, movie lovers would be fools not
to relish her in action. She does not disappoint
in Doubt, her most recent Academy Award nominated
role as Sister Aloysius Beauvier.
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April/05/09 08:36 PM
The
2007 Oscar winner for best picture gets a
mediocre treatment in its second round on the
Blu-ray format. The movie has the two-headed
directorial dragon known as the Coen brothers
offering an existential take on author Cormac
McCarthy's best selling novel of the same
name.
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August/16/08 10:18 PM
Martin
Scorsese applies his directorial magic to a
performance featuring yet another legendary rock
band, The Rolling Stones. Unfortunately, instead
of an insider’s view of life as a one of rock’s
perennial bad boys, Scorsese ends up delivering a
routine concert documentary. Read More...
March/21/08 07:24 PM
Re-released
on Blu-Ray, this blockbuster of extraterrestrial
proportions is looking better than ever. For
reasons not of this world, critics have
previously blasted this film almost as though it
is a journalistic “right-of-passage.” I, however,
cannot look away when ever I catch it as a late
night broadcast. Read
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February/16/08 06:22 PM
Among
my list of slowly accumulating regrets is that I
never saw the Freddie Mercury fueled “Queen”
perform live. Well, I can almost knock that one
off of the list thanks to the Blu-ray release of
a stunningly re-mastered, high-definition outing
of the band in its prime. Read More...
January/23/08 11:10 PM
Glenn
Close brings her incredible acting talents to the
smaller screen as lethal lawyer Patty Hewes in
the episodic thriller “Damages.” If you missed it
then, or just want to enjoy it again before
settling in for the second season, the series
first season arrives in a three disc Blu-ray set
on Tuesday, January 29th. Read
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January/06/08 11:02 PM
Christian
Bale and Russell Crowe star in an updated remake
(i.e. profanity and graphic violence) of the
Glenn Ford fueled 1957 Western of the same name.
Both actors deliver a gritty performance to prove
the traditional Hollywood cowboy film still has a
place in theaters. Read
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December/19/07 10:59 PM
This
is the definitive, final, final, final version
(I'm serious) of director Ridley Scott's grim
1982 sci-fi homage to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" At least that
is what is being said. For this final version,
Blade Runner arrives in high definition format
packaged with four other adaptations of the film
to keep fans slathered in the nourish world of
Replicants. Read More...
December/05/07 10:44 PM
Johnny
Depp continues to channel Keith Richards as the
prancing, affable Captain Jack Sparrow in the
potentially final ode to Disney's swashbuckling
Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Kiera
Knightly as the tempestuous Elizabeth Swann joins
Mr. Depp’s smoldering rendition while Orlando
Bloom offers a good-boy, Will Turner, to play
against good ole’ Captain Jack.
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November/01/07 11:17 PM
Director
Sam Raimi's trio of films devoted to the
complicated life of Marvel Comics' famed
web-slinger gives Blu-ray owners a breathtaking
look into the complicated life of Peter
Parker. Read
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November/01/07 10:55 PM
William
Steig's gassy green ogre has returned to the
silver screen this year in a story that has Shrek
taking on Prince Charming while searching for a
more “suitable” heir to the Far Far Away kingdom.
This single HD-DVD disk offers a beautiful 1080p
digital to digital reproduction of the colorful
cartoon film. The result are images so
three-dimensional you can almost smell
Shrek. Read More...
November/01/07 10:07 PM
From
the moment entertainer Al Jolsen's utterance of
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard
nothin' yet" was synchronized to celluloid in
"The Jazz Singer," the motion picture was forever
changed. Read More...
