ReviewsAug 20, 2012
LA PROMESSE - Blu-ray review
There is one moment in “La promesse” (1996) that I will never forget. Fourteen year-old Igor (Jérémie Renier) assists his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) in the family business, which involves maintai
ReviewsAug 20, 2012
GLEE: SEASON 3 - Blu-ray review
“Glee” is a musical soap opera, and Season 3 features the series’ trademark near-nonstop performance numbers and plenty of suds. How soapy? Three screen minutes hardly pass before one character i
ReviewsAug 20, 2012
THE ARISTOCATS - Blu-ray review
The Golden Age of Disney animation is associated with Walt Disney and the “Nine Old Men” who animated and directed the studios features during the early years. Disney died in 1966, four years before “
ReviewsAug 18, 2012
THE RESCUERS and THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER - Blu-ray review
I was hesitant to pop in the 35th Anniversary Edition of “The Rescuers,” because, as fans of the 1977 Disney animated film know, it’s always been a little rough-looking: heavy grain, indistinct ed
ReviewsAug 18, 2012
THE DICTATOR - Blu-ray review
"In loving memory of Kim Jong-il" I enjoyed Sacha Baron Cohen's voice characterizations in the "Madagascar" cartoons and his performance as the station inspector in Martin Scorcese's "Hugo. " I never
ReviewsAug 18, 2012
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS - 3D Blu-ray review
Though a pirate-lover, I’ll confess that I never got into Talk Like a Pirate Day. But give me Errol Flynn as “Captain Blood,” Burt Lancaster as “The Crimson Pirate,” or more recently the listing port-
ReviewsAug 17, 2012
DANCE MOMS - SEASON 1 - DVD review
The New York Post called it “Toddlers & Tiaras” meets “Real Housewives,” which normally would be enough to send me running in the opposite direction, rather than watch the Lifetime reality series **“[
ReviewsAug 16, 2012
LA GRANDE ILLUSION - Blu-ray Review
Jean Renoir’s “La Grande Illusion,” a.k.a “Grand Illusion” (1937), is hailed by film critics as one of the greatest films ever made, also appearing in the all-time top-ten French films list. By the ti
ReviewsAug 16, 2012
COMMUNITY: SEASON 3 - DVD review
You had to know that one day America’s community colleges would provide the fodder for a TV sitcom. Filled with “non-traditional students”—that is, not your newly minted high school grads who see four
ReviewsAug 16, 2012
BERNIE - Blu-ray review
“Bernie” is a curious film. Based on a real murder story, it’s a blend of mockumentary and dark comedy, with Jack Black playing assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede, who ingratiated himself wit
ReviewsAug 15, 2012
THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET - Blu-ray review
A limpet, as you probably know, is an undersea mollusk, a small, gilled snail that clings to the rocks in fresh or salt water. It's an apt name for the main character in 1963's "The Incredible Mr. Lim
ReviewsAug 15, 2012
LADY AND THE TRAMP II: SCAMP'S ADVENTURE - Blu-ray review
After watching “Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure,” I found myself both admiring this sequel and noting things about it that are peculiar to sequels and TV animation. That leaves me torn be