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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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Netflix Weekend 9/19: Fantastic Fest Edition
This week we’ll be highlighting three films that premiered at Fantastic Fest, to give you all a bit of an idea of what the prominent Austin-based film festival is all about. Those three films are There Will Be Blood, Let the Right One In, and I Saw the Devil. ...
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Netflix Weekend 9/5: Werner Herzog Week!
This week we’ll be highlighting three documentaries by our favorite German maestro: Werner Herzog. We begin on a journey to the ends of the earth, as Herzog travels to Antarctica, in Encounters at the End of the World; then travel deep into the earth’s depths...
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Netflix Weekend 8/29: “Let Go Your Earthly Tether”
This week, I’ll be highlighting three films about lovers in existential crises, or as I like to say struggling to “let go your earthly tether”. Just bear with me, ok? This one’s a little more inspired than usual. Our three films are Abbas Kiarostami’s Certifie...
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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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Blu-Ray Review: “Tarzan”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $29.99
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Region A
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Film: B- / Video: B+ / Audio: A- / Extras: B-
Many people would argue that Tarzan represents the end of the Disney Renaissance (Those people would b...
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Blu-Ray Review: Divergent
Distributor: Lionsgate
Release Date: August 05, 2014
MSRP: $39.99
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Film: D+ / Video: B+ / Audio: A- / Extras: B-
The post-Twilight era’s spawning of female empowerment is thankfully here to stay for the foreseeable future, but takes an un...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Hercules”
Hercules has become, inexplicably, something of a forgotten film in the Disney Renaissance (along with the other 90s-era Blu-ray release from Disney this week, Tarzan). This take on Greek mythology performed decently in the summer of 1997, but aside from the e...
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Netflix Weekend 8/15: Lars von Trier and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
This week I’ll be highlighting a filmmaker whom I have a much more complex relationship with than previous entries: Lars von Trier. Anyone who knows me know that I’m often hot and cold on his work, feeling that at his best, he’s transcendent, and at his worst,...
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