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Broadcast News (Blu-ray Review)    14 Feb, 2011

Article By: Mike Clark

James L. Brooks’ second feature as a director reverberates today in terms of the climactic mass layoffs at its story-central television network’s Washington, D.C., news bureau.More>>

Affair to Remember, An (Blu-ray Review)    14 Feb, 2011

Article By: Mike Clark

The Blu-ray has an intensity you don’t get on the standard-DVD or TV showings.More>>

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (Blu-ray Review)    11 Feb, 2011

Article By: John Latchem

TV shows doing their own version of 'A Christmas Carol' has become as much a holiday tradition as gifts and egg nog. So the biggest surprise surrounding the latest “Doctor Who” Christmas special is not that the British sci-fi staple would do its own adaptation, but that it took nearly 50 years...More>>

Game of Death (Blu-ray Review)    6 Feb, 2011

Article By: Erik Gruenwedel

In 'Game of Death,' Wesley Snipes showcases his trademark pokerfaced bravado and mixed martial arts fighting acumen to pleasantly elevate a relatively pedantic movie, despite all the flying bullets, screeching SUVs and hovering helicopters. (Street Date 2/15/11)More>>

Middle Men (Blu-ray Review)    4 Feb, 2011

Article By: John Latchem

Throw 'Boogie Nights,' 'Goodfellas' and 'The Social Network' into a blender and the resulting smoothie might resemble 'Middle Men.' (Street Date 2/8/11)More>>

Life as We Know It (Blu-ray Review)    3 Feb, 2011

Article By: Ashley Ratcliff

'Life as We Know It' shows what could happen when two singles are forced to rebuild their lives together around unfortunate circumstances. (Street Date 2/8/11)More>>

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Blu-ray Review)    31 Jan, 2011

Article By: Mike Clark

If you think director Alex Gibney had a formidable rogue’s gallery to work with in 2005’s 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,' he all but outdoes himself this time in terms of shining glaring lights on smoothies who stink up the boardroom.More>>

Shock Corridor (Blu-ray Review)    31 Jan, 2011

Article By: Mike Clark

Criterion has released 'Shock Corridor' before, but this remastered version includes new essays and two outstanding bonuses.More>>

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (Blu-ray Review)    29 Jan, 2011

Article By: Billy Gil

Zhang Yimou brings the same combination of action and feeling he brought to such films as 'House of Flying Daggers' to 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop,' a remake of the Coen Brothers' 'Blood Simple' set in feudal China. (Street Date 2/1/11)More>>

You Again (Blu-ray Review)    28 Jan, 2011

Article By: Angelique Flores

'You Again' takes an old comic device of enemies battling it out and makes it multigenerational with a cast of cherished veteran actresses and younger starlets. (Street Date 2/8/11)More>>