A couple of family dramas are new out on Blu-ray and DVD, one an under-seen debut from last year and the other an acclaimed classic from Japan.
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Blu-ray/DVD Reviews
This review originally appeared in shorter form on KSNT-NBC, KTKA-ABC, and KTMJ-FOX, Kansas First News. Making their way to Blu-ray and DVD this week are two movies that were big hits — one on the awards circuit and the other at the box office. Here’s two movies worth checking out on home video: Mission: Impossible […]
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Famous director David Lean is perhaps known best for his war epics The Bridge On The River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, but The Criterion Collection has recently released a box set of Lean’s first four movies, and it shows that Lean was quickly becoming a master storyteller the moment he stepped out from the […]
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Two PG-rated family films have recently made their way to DVD and Blu-ray and they couldn’t be further apart.
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Coming off his recent Oscar nomination for Moneyball, Jonah Hill headlines the comedy ‘The Sitter.’ ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ is Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut about the worst European war in the last 50 years.
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Two critically acclaimed entries into the 2011 Oscar race make their way to DVD and Blu-ray, but one is significantly more successful than the other in the drama department.
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Rather than portray Christ (Willem Dafoe) as a person with a benevolent perma-smile whose divine light shines 24/7 , Martin Scorsese (raised a Roman Catholic) and co-screenwriter Paul Schrader (raised as a Calvinist) dare to capture his humanity.
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Two big awards-season movies from last year are out on home video this week.
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The Greek mythology action movie Immortals and George Clooney’s The Descendants grossed about $80 million each at the box office. Both are new out on Blu-ray and DVD.
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Two smaller releases are new out on DVD that may appeal to niche audiences. One has a local slant, while the other is a sci-fi story that was ahead of its time.
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‘Jack and Jill’ might have been silly fun, like so many of Sandler’s films. Instead it will just leave you pondering how it all went so wrong.
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‘Wyatt Earp’s Revenge’ isn’t great, but it works well enough as a straight-to-DVD B-movie western. A slightly better budget would have helped enhance the gunfights, but Feifer does what he can with what he has to work with.
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Originally entitled ‘Bail Enforcers,’ the low-budget Canadian action film ‘Bounty Hunters’ stars former WWE wrestler Trish Stratus as Jules, a bounty hunter who works part-time at a strip club (I swear I’m not making this up).
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Blu-ray is a great format for classic movies, and these two movies have never looked better than their new re-issues.
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‘London Boulevard’ is a British gangster film written and directed by William Monahan, and ‘The Skin I Live In’ is a bizarre and truly disturbing movie from Pedro Almodóvar.
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