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All posts by Jake Cole
Blu-Ray Review: “Jour de Fête”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: B+ / Video: B / Audio: B- / Extras: A
Jacques Tati’s first feature is unmistakably the work of the French mime, e...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Nightbreed”
Distributor: Shout! Factory/Scream Factory
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $29.93
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Film: C+ / Video: A- / Audio: B+ / Extras: A-
Clive Barker’s love for ornate monster effects precludes suspense in Nightbreed, which flashes sights of d...
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“Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show”
If a documentary about how hard successful television writers have it in Hollywood seems the very definition of “champagne problems,” Des Doyle’s Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show benefits from the fact that, well, it’s interviewing those writers. Trus...
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“Goodbye to Language 3D”
Old French master Jean-Luc Godard's new film uses 3D like nothing else before it.
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DVD Review: “The Lusty Men”
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: September 16, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B+ / Video: B- / Audio: C+ / Extras: n/a
Nicholas Ray’s 1950s films were topical critiques of contemporary American society, from middle-class aspirati...
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Blu-Ray Review: Snowpiercer
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 21, 2014
MSRP: $29.99
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Film: B+ / Video: A- / Audio: A / Extras: B+
By some degree the best of the recent American projects of Korean auteurs, Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer uses its conceit of a tr...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Hannibal, Season 2”
Distributor: Lionsgate
Release Date: September 16, 2014
MSRP: $39.97
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Film: A- / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: B
Television works on a power model inverse to that of film. Setting aside producers and suits, writers are all-powerful, fol...
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Blu-Ray Review: “The Innocents”
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: September 23, 2014
MSRP: $39.99
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: A-
A British horror movie adapted from a great American author by another noted American writer, The Innocents ...
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Blu-Ray Review: Out of the Past
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: August 12, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: B+ / Extras: C
Jacques Tourneur’s three films for Val Lewton—Cat People, The Leopard Man and I Walked with a Z...
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DVD Review: Drum Beat
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: July 15, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B- / Video: C- / Audio: C / Extras: n/a
Alan Ladd’s Johnny McKay arrives at the White House at the start of Drum Beat on the invitatio...
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