KILL YOUR DARLINGS - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 19, 2014

KILL YOUR DARLINGS - Blu-ray review

Based on true events, “Kill Your Darlings” tells the story of a pivotal year in the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, early in his literary life, when he was studying at Columbia. Played by Daniel Radc

  • By Douglas Norton
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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 18, 2014

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET - Blu-ray review

I knew it had to arrive at some point. As I sat down to watch “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which cusses its way onto Blu-ray disc from Paramount Pictures quite soon, I firmly believed there would be

  • By David Van Der Haeghen
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THE HIDDEN FORTRESS - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 18, 2014

THE HIDDEN FORTRESS - Blu-ray review

The first fifteen minutes of “The Hidden Fortress” (1958) are as accomplished as anything in Akira Kurosawa's body of work. In the first shot we meet the peasants Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) and Matashichi

  • By Christopher Long
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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 16, 2014

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS - Blu-ray review

“Inside Llewyn Davis” stars Oscar Isaac as the titular folk-singer, struggling with his career, an elusive housecat, and his own self-destructive impulses in the 1961 Greenwich Village folk scene. He

  • By Douglas Norton
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WICKED BLOOD - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 15, 2014

WICKED BLOOD - Blu-ray review

“Wicked Blood” is a strange film. There’s no other way to put it. It’s a standard mafia double-cross movie with a mob boss and henchmen and small-time drug trafficking and an underling that tries

  • By James Plath
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IRON SKY (DIRECTOR'S CUT STEELBOOK) - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 11, 2014

IRON SKY (DIRECTOR'S CUT STEELBOOK) - Blu-ray review

Nazis. Like zombies, they just keep coming back. Sometimes AS zombies. But in**“Iron Sky”** the last remnants of the Third Reich are star trekkers. Having escaped to the dark side of the moon followi

  • By James Plath
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GEORGE WASHINGTON - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 11, 2014

GEORGE WASHINGTON - Blu-ray review

Since “George Washington” (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise-beyond-her-years narration as the camera floats in slow-motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks

  • By Christopher Long
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12 YEARS A SLAVE - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 08, 2014

12 YEARS A SLAVE - Blu-ray review

Director Steve McQueen told BBC News that his wife, a historian, was the one who suggested he make a film about slavery, and it was she who discovered an obscure 1853 memoir by Solomon Northrup for hi

  • By James Plath
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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 05, 2014

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR - Blu-ray review

Please accept my apologies, but I gave up on "Blue Is The Warmest Color" (2013) at the ten-minute mark. This is no way a reflection on the movie's quality, but my own reaction to director Abdellatif K

  • By Christopher Long
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THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY - Blu-ray review
ReviewsMar 02, 2014

THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY - Blu-ray review

“The Agony and the Ecstasy” is aptly titled. There are moments in this 1965 historical drama that are almost agonizing to watch, while other scenes tend toward the sublime. That wasn’t the intent

  • By James Plath
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ICE SOLDIERS - Blu-ray review
ReviewsFeb 28, 2014

ICE SOLDIERS - Blu-ray review

On the Blu-ray box for the new actioner “Ice Soldiers,” the PR team has put a blurb that opines “Ice Soldiers” is “the best super soldier movie since the first “Universal Soldier.” Where I sit, t

  • By Douglas Norton
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KING OF THE HILL - Blu-ray review
ReviewsFeb 25, 2014

KING OF THE HILL - Blu-ray review

Steven Soderbergh made it difficult for auteurist critics from the very start. The chameleon-like director who has hopped genres and budget levels more than any other major filmmaker over the past two

  • By Christopher Long
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