Category: DVDs
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Jane Fonda’s 1977 film ‘Julia’ is not a perfect film, but it certainly captures some perfect performances
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This political drama and pseud-biopic offers plenty of excellent performances.
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1982 gay love story ‘Making Love’ had high hopes, but made little impact
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It’s hard to say whether Making Love was groundbreaking or merely sensational when it was released 24 years ago, but the slight soap opera certainly made little impact either way. Arthur Hiller, director of the sob-fest Love Story a decade earlier directs…
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Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine are electric in ‘Blood and Wine’
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Sometimes an actor can save a weakly-made film. In Bob Rafelson’s 1996 dud Blood and Wine, though, two of the greatest actors of all time, Michael Caine and Jack Nicholson, are left to work overtime.…
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‘Shaun of the Dead’ turns the dead-serious zombie genre on its head
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Zombies roam the streets as an average guy tries to win back his girl.
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‘A Door in the Floor’ fails to make you care about amoral fools
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This slow film is filled with complex yet unsympathetic characters.
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‘Four Brothers’ is a smart, fun film from director John Singleton
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[I]Four Brothers[/I] was a long time coming but it was worth the wait. We can only hope that it wont take as long for Singleton to deliver another film worthy of his promise and potential.
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2005’s ‘Bad News Bears’ is actually just as good as original
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Despite being yet another remake 2005s Bad News Bears is good. In fact its quite good.
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‘Airplane!’ is still funny in ‘Don’t Call Me Shirley! Edition’ DVD
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A unique parody that poked fun at the overload of airplane- and airport-centric films that were abundant in the 1970s.
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‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Collection’ is the perfect package for a pair of perfect classics
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The adventures of Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan are together for the first time in one complete box set with a great third disc filled with bonus material.