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Blu-Ray Review: “Muppets Most Wanted”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $26.99
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Region A
Buy at Best Buy
Film: A- / Video: A- / Audio: A- / Extras: B+
In 2011, Jim Henson's Muppet characters roared back onto the big screen after more than a decade away ...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $22.99
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Region A
Buy at Best Buy
Film: C- / Video: A- / Audio: A- / Extras: D
It is, the Blu-Ray cover trumpets, the 10th anniversary of Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers,...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (8/14/14–8/27/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) The Fisher King
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The world was stunned and saddened to hear of the death of Robin Williams this past Mond...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $29.99
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Region A
Buy at Amazon
Film: B / Video: B+ / Audio: A- / Extras: C+
It's not hard to think of Mary Poppins when watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Both were directed by Robe...
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DVD Review: Drum Beat
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: July 15, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
Order at Warner Archive (discs made to order)
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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Blu-Ray Review: “The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad”/”Fun and Fancy Free”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $36.99
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Region A
Buy at Amazon
Film: B / Video: A- / Audio: A- / Extras: B+
The 1940s were a period of great and painful upheaval at Walt Disney Studios. They started with Pinocchio...
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Netflix Weekend 8/8: Tarantino Edition
This week we’ll be highlighting three films by Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. Why, you ask? Because summer is in the dog days of August, and it’s time for a pallet cleanser from the non-stop parade of studio tent-poles, that...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Need for Speed”
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MSRP: $36.99
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Region A
Buy at Best Buy
Film: D+ / Video: A- / Audio: A- / Extras: B
Aaron Paul drove away (literally) from Breaking Bad as something of a breakout star, unlike the more wel...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (7/31/14–8/13/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Davies' adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play is the second filmed version...
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Netflix Weekend 7/25: Joaquin Phoenix Edition
This week we’ll be highlighting three films starring Joaquin Phoenix, for no real good reason other than that he’s become one of the greatest modern actors of our time.
Let’s take a look at Gladiator first. This film is interesting to me because it’s one I’...
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