DVD and Blu-ray Reviews
Blu-ray Review: 'Ivan's Childhood' (Criterion Collection)
- by Brad Brevet 4 Comments
- Posted January 22nd 2013 at 1:49 PM
A look at Criterion's new Blu-ray presentation of Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood, an impressive debut feature from the famed Russian director.
Read the ReviewBlu-ray Review: 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' (Criterion Collection)
- by Brad Brevet 2 Comments
- Posted October 24th 2012 at 12:01 PM
John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday is a film you owe it to yourself to see as it features outstanding performances and direction and tells a story featuring one of the more realistic films about love you'll ever see.
Read the Review'The Avengers': Is Spectacle Enough or Do Multiple Viewings Require Something More?
- by Brad Brevet 62 Comments
- Posted October 17th 2012 at 8:40 AM
Is spectacle enough or do multiple viewings require something more? WIth The Avengers I quickly realized, with this film, I need a little more.
Read the Review'In the Mood'... to be Loved
- by Brad Brevet 9 Comments
- Posted October 16th 2012 at 2:46 PM
A look at Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love, which was just re-released on Criterion Blu-ray.
Read the ReviewA First Visit with the 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'
- by Brad Brevet 6 Comments
- Posted October 13th 2012 at 11:00 AM
Finally I get to Creature from the Black Lagoon, the same day Universal has hired yet another writer to attempt to remake the 1954 classic. Click on in to get my thoughts after watching the recently released Blu-ray, thoughts that insist movies such as Jaws and Alien wouldn't have been the same without this film.
Read the Review'Phantom' Thoughts
- by Brad Brevet 2 Comments
- Posted October 12th 2012 at 12:34 PM
A first watch of the 1943 version of The Phantom of the Opera didn't come close to moving me as much as The Invisible Man as I continue to explore the three films I had not yet seen in Universal's Classic Monsters Blu-ray collection.
Read the Review'We'll begin with a reign of terror...'
- by Brad Brevet 6 Comments
- Posted October 9th 2012 at 4:19 PM
I began my exploration of Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection Blu-ray set with a look at The Invisible Man, a film I had never seen, but was absolutely won over by its wicked antagonist and the performance of Claude Rains.
Read the ReviewDavid Fincher's 'The Game': One Part Fascinating and Two Parts Frustrating
- by Brad Brevet 13 Comments
- Posted September 26th 2012 at 3:27 PM
David Fincher's The Game (1997) is one of his only films to truly frustrate me on a narrative level while at the same time still allowing me to marvel at his talent behind the camera. Here I take a look at the new Criterion Blu-ray as well as the film itself.
Read the ReviewBlu-ray Review: Criterion's Outstanding Remastering of 'The Samurai Trilogy'
- by Brad Brevet 1 Comment
- Posted August 20th 2012 at 3:10 PM
I'm a little late with this review considering the Blu-ray has been out for almost two months, but I finally got around to watching Criterion's fantastic remastering of Hiroshi Inagaki's The Samurai Trilogy and just had to say something.
Read the Review'Jaws' Blu-ray Review
- by Brad Brevet 16 Comments
- Posted August 13th 2012 at 5:07 PM
Any fan of Jaws has nothing to fear as Universal delivers a stunning restoration of the 37-year-old classic which includes the "The Shark is Still Working" documentary, available for the first time on Blu-ray.
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