Reviews

ROSETTA - Blu-ray review
ReviewsAug 21, 2012

ROSETTA - Blu-ray review

I doubt many critics would offer “Rosetta” (1999) as a prime example of Hollywood-style filmmaking, but in some ways the title heroine is the perfect embodiment of textbook screenwriting advice. Film

LA PROMESSE - Blu-ray review
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

GLEE: SEASON 3 - Blu-ray review
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

THE ARISTOCATS - Blu-ray review
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 “

THE DICTATOR - Blu-ray review
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

DANCE MOMS - SEASON 1 - DVD review
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 **“[

LA GRANDE ILLUSION - Blu-ray Review
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

COMMUNITY: SEASON 3 - DVD review
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