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DVD/Streaming (10 posts found)
Blu-ray Review: “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: October 14, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: A-
James Cagney’s fearsome energy, his preternatural ability to play human beings as honey badgers, at their most dang...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Mon Oncle”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: A / Video: A+ / Audio: A / Extras: A-
Mon Oncle may be the second Hulot feature, but it’s the first to perfect th...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday”
(Part of The Complete Jacques Tati)
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: October 28, 2014
MSRP: $124.95
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: A
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday belongs on the shortlist of the most charming films...
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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: “Maleficent”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $36.99
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Region A
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Film: C+ / Video: B+ / Audio: B+ / Extras: C
The high point of the new film Maleficent comes roughly 30 minutes in, as Angelina Jolie reenacts one ...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Planes: Fire and Rescue”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $39.99
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Region A
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Film: D / Video: B+ / Audio: B+ / Extras: C-
One of the joys to be had in watching Planes: Fire and Rescue, and there are unsurprisingly very few, ...
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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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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: “Sleeping Beauty”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $19.99
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Region A
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Film: B / Video: A / Audio: A / Extras: C
Sleeping Beauty is arguably the most beautiful of all Disney animated films, with a unique visual style co...
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