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Hitchcock - Spellbound Blu-ray
Ingrid Bergman, who also appears in Hitchcock’s Notorious with Cary Grant (also available on Blu-ray), did not play repressed sexuality very well. This and the fact Spellbound’ psychological mumbo-jumbo have not aged well should not stop you from enjoying this ... More
Does The Noise In My Head Bother You? Steven Tyler
Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Steven Tyler epitomized and lived it all. (He’s clean now.) If you wish to reside inside his head for a while and experience a real stream of consciousness, read his autobiography, Does the Noise ... More
Malcolm X Blu-ray Book
Malcolm X is a good biopic. It tells an important story and Denzel Washington gives an excellent performance as the sixties Black leader. Malcolm X is also on the long side at over two hundred minutes. The Malcolm X Blu-ray ... More
The Big Year Blu-ray DVD Combo
The Big Year is a movie about three guys at different stages in their life who undertake the same challenge: seeing as many different birds as possible in a calendar year. Though it stars Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Owen ... More
Hannibal Brooks
Hannibal Brooks is the story of a POW who decides to get an elephant across the Alps to Switzerland. Though uneven in tone and acting and rather low budget in production values this MGM Limited Edition collection made on demand ... More
The Whistleblower Blu-ray
Those who think movies like The Whistleblower can change something are going to be sorely disappointed to research that the company portrayed in The Whistleblower is still blocking a U.S. Defense Department resolution banning its contractors from human trafficking. It ... More
The Apartment Blu-ray Collector s Edition
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director –Lemmon and MacLaine were nominated for Best Actor—The Apartment is a Billy Wilder movie where the comic touches serve to humanize and darken the romantic drama it really is. ... More
In Time
In Time is a sci-fi Robin Hood tale that tries for a philosophical dimension. Justin Timberlake is about as emotive as Keanu Reeves but he does a good enough job in this SF DVD. In Time is too subdued in ... More
Hugo
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo balances the sublime hope of childhood against the disappointed romantic vision of post world war one Paris. Based on Brian Scelznick’s brilliant The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Scorsese’s Hugo is touching without being maudlin, humourous while avoiding ... More
Boardwalk Empire Season One Blu-ray
Boardwalk Empire is a prohibition era gangster drama set in Atlantic City. As a whole the show is good but never quite seems to know if it wants to be a historical or romantic series or a gangster serial. Steve ... More
Mildred Pierce Collector s Edition Blu-ray DVD Set
Mildred Pierce is the multiple nominee and Emmy Award winning (Winslet and Pearce for acting) HBO miniseries. This five part miniseries is a very faithful adaptation of the James M. Cain novel. Those who like period pieces, stories about a ... More
Alcatraz - Pilot - CITY TV Jan 16th 8 p.m.
Be forewarned: if you watch the pilot episode of Alcatraz you are automatically hooked.It was a dark and stormy night in 1963 when two guards arrived on Alcatraz for their shift and discovered every single guard and inmate had vanished. ... More