‘A Good Old Fashioned Orgy,’ thankfully, has more on its mind than just being a sex-filled romp with tons of lewd, bawdy humor. It’s actually kind of charming.
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Blu-ray/DVD Reviews
The cast of “Glee” put on a show, but only huge fans will think this concert film is more than so-so.
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‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ is a good mix of a solid sci-fi concept, great character development, and a surprising emotional investment. ‘Point Blank’ moves so fast and furiously that you will forget you are reading subtitles altogether.
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‘Design For Living’ is pure cinematic gold, and the Criterion Blu-ray is full of extra material that will help modern audiences appreciate how far ahead of its time this 1933 romantic comedy truly was.
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Pearl Harbor is re-created and re-packaged in a nice Blu-ray digibook, and a low-budget sci-fi movie examines personal tragedy and redemption on Blu-ray and DVD.
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Criterion’s ’12 Angry Men’ Blu-ray and the new ‘romantic comedy’ ‘Friends With Benefits’ are studies in the polar opposites in things you can do with a movie. Here’s the Blu-ray review:
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The story of Memphis and its obsession with the squared circle is explored in the new documentary Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin’.
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One of the funniest and most original films of the 1990s makes its way to Blu-ray in a new special edition from The Criterion Collection that features enough extras to keep you busy all month.
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In the new live-action/CGI movie ‘The Smurfs,’ this combination may only work for young kids. In other words, it’s not quite as awful as I expected it to be.
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What I had heard about Bellflower, an indie movie labor-of-love shot on a shoestring budget, was a tad misleading: “It’s about two guys who build a flamethrower and a weaponized car so they can rule the world following the inevitable apocalypse.”
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Christopher Plummer is gaining a lot of Oscar buzz for his performance as a man who comes out as gay not long after his wife dies. Ewan MacGregor plays his son Oliver, and Beginnners, directed by Mike Mills, is his story.
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The 1968 Kaneto Shindo horror classic ‘Kuroneko’ is out in a beautiful new transfer from The Criterion Collection. Check out this DVD and Blu-ray review.
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Two new historical dramas adapted from best-selling novels are out on Blu-ray and DVD. Read/watch Eric’s review to see if either are worth checking out.
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For anyone curious about exploring the origins of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol’s ‘Les Cousins’ is a dark, pessimistic, and intelligently mounted film, out now on DVD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
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Criterion’s Blu-ray restoration of the 1921 Swedish silent film looks and sounds amazing, and the movie remains a spooky classic.
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