Tag: Studio Film Blu Ray Review
Criterion Collection: My Darling Clementine | Blu-ray Review
John Ford’s My Darling Clementine is a prime example of the Great American Western, embodying all that is good and right and just about...
The Party | Blu-ray Review
While director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers are best known for their several Pink Panther efforts, they also collaborated on one additional wholly...
On the Beach | Blu-Ray Review
Within the well intentioned lexicon of Stanley Kramer’s filmography, his 1959 title, On the Beach remains the most prescient, a post-apocalyptic science fiction filmed...
Mr. Majestyk | Blu-ray Review
To recall the cinema of Charles Bronson, one can’t get far without referencing his sterling epoch in 1970s era American film, a period eclipsed...
Separate Tables | Blu-ray Review
Playwright and screenwriter Terence Rattigan was an indubitable influence on mid-century British cinema. He authored several of the era’s most notable titles, including The...
Radio Days | Blu-ray Review
Nostalgia and the lingering sting of eras lost to the sands of time have cropped up in a number of Woody Allen’s lengthy list...
Witness For the Prosecution | Blu-ray Review
As far as pulpy vintage courtroom dramas go, Billy Wilder’s 1957 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s famed play, Witness for the Prosecution, is hard to...
Criterion Collection: All that Heaven Allows | Blu-ray Review
As Laura Mulvey’s essay, “An Articulate Screen” contends, 1955’s All That Heaven Allows was “just another critically unnoticed Hollywood genre product,” the attempt for...
Criterion Collection: Ace in the Hole | Blu-ray Review
A resounding flop upon its release, which saw it recut and rereleased as The Big Carnival without any greater success, Criterion remasters Billy Wilder’s...
Criterion Collection: Fantastic Mr. Fox | Blu-ray Review
No one was surprised when it was announced in the wake of The Darjeeling Limited that Wes Anderson’s next endeavor would be wholly animated...
Criterion Collection: City Lights | Blu-ray Review
The biggest surprise about this month’s release of Charles Chaplin’s City Lights (1931) is that it wasn’t already a part of Criterion’s prestigious collection....
Criterion Collection: Safety Last! | Blu-ray Review
The timeless comic genius of Harold Lloyd shines through in Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor's 1923 classic Safety Last!, one more silent film championed...
Criterion Collection: Jubal | Blu-ray Review
Following the release of over a dozen films and just a year before the release of his pinnacle endeavor, Delmar Daves utilized his love...
Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection | Blu-ray Review
Bond. James Bond. Synonymous with pop corn and over the top, ridiculous, mucho suave fun. We've come to know him through six iconic suave...
