Reviews of drama DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
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Gangster Squad (Blu-ray Review) 2 May, 2013
'Squad' is an unoriginal take on bad-boy pugilist-turned-gangster Mickey Cohen (played singularly...More>>
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Gate of Hell (Blu-ray Review) 29 Apr, 2013
A lively 12th-century rouser even without the lush pigments, Gate of Hell took the foreign-language...More>>
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Scarlet Pimpernel, The (DVD Review) 28 Apr, 2013
All things considered, the DVD looks pretty good, benefiting from a vibrant color palette employed...More>>
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China Gate (Blu-ray Review) 22 Apr, 2013
Filmed during a kind of heyday for Samuel Fuller when the producer-director-writer found 20th...More>>
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Life of Pi (3D Blu-ray Review) 17 Apr, 2013
Ang Lee’s 'Life of Pi' offers not just a great deal of visual splendor, but in many ways is also...More>>
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Hitchcock (Blu-ray Review) 9 Apr, 2013
Director Sacha Gervasi has a lot of fun embedding the film with Hitchcock iconography that should...More>>
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Girl, The (DVD Review) 8 Apr, 2013
I just don’t know how much to believe here, though on its own terms, the picture has its moments,...More>>
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5 Against the House (DVD Review) 8 Apr, 2013
You can practically hear studio chief Harry Cohn ordering more full-body profile shots of Kim Novak...More>>
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (Blu-ray Review) 7 Apr, 2013
The biopic 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' would have you believe that wartime is the best time for...More>>
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Lincoln (Blu-ray Review) 5 Apr, 2013
Steven Spielberg’s excellent 'Lincoln' gives us a portrait of an individual whose place in...More>>
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Samson & Delilah (DVD Review) 1 Apr, 2013
Angela Lansbury (as Semadar) and especially George Sanders (as “the Saran of Gaza”) give...More>>
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Rust and Bone (Blu-ray Review) 1 Apr, 2013
This four-Cesar winner from France offers an absorbing love story that compels on multiple levels. More>>
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White Elephant (DVD Review) 31 Mar, 2013
Actors Ricardo Darín and Martina Gusman have teamed up again with director Pablo Trapero...More>>
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Third Girl From the Left (DVD Review) 25 Mar, 2013
Kim Novak, Tony Curtis and producer Hugh Hefner found themselves involved in an ABC TV movie that...More>>
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Red Menace, The (Blu-ray Review) 18 Mar, 2013
Republic Pictures wasn’t the first studio to exploit the Red Scare, but this not totally...More>>
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Time of My Life (DVD Review) 17 Mar, 2013
The film is thought-provoking and endearing — a powerful reminder of the frailty of life. (Street...More>>
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Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray Review) 13 Mar, 2013
'Zero Dark Thirty' isn’t concerned with lecturing its audience as much as presenting a...More>>
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Ministry of Fear (Blu-ray Review) 11 Mar, 2013
Until a jarringly abrupt tack-on at the end that feels half-hearted, director Fritz Lang’s...More>>
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That Cold Day in the Park (Blu-ray Review) 11 Mar, 2013
'That Cold Day in the Park' is fairly peg-able as a Robert Altman picture for its look, its early...More>>
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28 Hotel Rooms (DVD Review) 5 Mar, 2013
Just two actors and 28 hotel rooms. With that set-up, a lot rests on those two actors. But they...More>>
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