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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 thriller. Spellbound, Notorious, and Rebecca (Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine) ...

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 Inside My Head Bother You? A Rock ‘N Roll Memoir ...

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 Book edition includes a DVD of the 1972 documentary.

The Malcolm ...

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 Wilson, all known for their comedic skills, The Big Year ...

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 DVD is quite enjoyable. The print used for this particular ...

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 is also blocking efforts to make U.S. defense contractors and ...

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. When you hear that they don’t make movies like they ...

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 its first half to interest someone not into the genre ...

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 slapstick and most of all it is magical.

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 Buscemi is Nucky Thompson, the man who controls everything and ...