Reviews of drama DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
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Men, Women & Children (Blu-ray Review) 10 Jan, 2015
Director Jason Reitman’s sixth film is a low-key affair about the effect of the Internet on...More>>
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Only Angels Have Wings (Blu-ray Review) 22 Dec, 2014
This restored key Howard Hawks movie is such a 4K looker that you can see details of the rain...More>>
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Appointment With Danger (Blu-ray Review) 22 Dec, 2014
Much underrated (or at least under-seen) purely on the “fun” level, Danger joins a new slew of...More>>
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Blu-ray Review) 15 Dec, 2014
Sony has given 'Mr. Smith' the kind of deluxe treatment we don’t see very often from them...More>>
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Safe (Blu-ray Review) 15 Dec, 2014
Writer-director Todd Haynes’ second feature was filmed just as lead Julianne Moore was coming...More>>
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Sands of Iwo Jima (Blu-ray Review) 1 Dec, 2014
The movie said to have been responsible for more Marine enlistments than any other picture in...More>>
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Pete Kelly's Blues (Blu-ray Review) 17 Nov, 2014
The true big-screen baby of jazz lover Jack Webb’s career spun off from a radio show about ’20s...More>>
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Possessed (Blu-ray Review) 10 Nov, 2014
One of several postwar psychiatric dramas, 'Possessed' features Joan Crawford as a paranoid...More>>
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Gold Is Where You Find It (DVD Review) 3 Nov, 2014
Take away a good supporting cast and one topical selling point of interest to the ecologically...More>>
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Fedora (Blu-ray Review) 27 Oct, 2014
Billy Wilder’s troubled penultimate project has enough qualified admirers to make its Blu-ray...More>>
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Lusty Men, The (DVD Review) 20 Oct, 2014
Newly remastered, this solid rodeo drama from director Nicholas Ray stars Robert Mitchum as an...More>>
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Million Dollar Arm (Blu-ray Review) 10 Oct, 2014
The film doesn’t try to be anything more than it needs to. The performances are effective and...More>>
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Houdini (Blu-ray Review) 9 Oct, 2014
Adrien Brody gives an aggressive, in-your-face performance as famed magician Harry Houdini,...More>>
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Innocents, The (Blu-ray Review) 29 Sep, 2014
Truman Capote was the driving force behind the screenplay for this film notable for its weird...More>>
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Man Hunt (Blu-ray Review) 1 Sep, 2014
This significant hit in Fritz Lang’s career is a most entertaining suspense thriller with a...More>>
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High School Confidential (Blu-ray Review) 1 Sep, 2014
This pot-inevitably-leads-to-heroin exposé howler often has enough going for it not to be one of...More>>
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Buddy Holly Story, The (Blu-ray Review) 25 Aug, 2014
Before his 1959 death in a plane crash, Buddy Holly was a kid with a burning-lava kind of drive,...More>>
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Draft Day (Blu-ray Review) 22 Aug, 2014
The film’s gamut of potential Draft Day scenarios a team could face may veer into the realm of...More>>
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Salvaje (aka The Wild One) (Blu-ray Review) 18 Aug, 2014
Playable on Blu-ray machines of all regions, this is a Spanish import of 'The Wild One,' the once...More>>
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Separate Tables (Blu-ray Review) 4 Aug, 2014
This is a real actor’s show, and a very solid Blu-ray presentation of a handsome drama...More>>
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