Archive For The “Blu-ray Reviews” Category
Cast: Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir Directed by: Jean Renoir Written by: Jean Renoir Genre: Comedy, Drama Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: Value: Review: Video: Upon first examination, The Rules of the Game seems often time soft, and displays a number of flaws in the print. It’s certainly not the most gorgeous transfer ever presented, [...]
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson Directed by: Ruben Fleisher Written by: Michael Diliberti Genre: Action, Comedy Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: Value: 1/2 Read more about 30 Minutes or Less (2011) Review: Video: Sony delivers us a more than adequate, but not extravagant video transfer that is rich in texture, but low [...]
Cast: Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, Jan Malmsjö Directed by: Ingmar Bergman Written by: Ingmar Bergman Genre: Drama Rating: Video: Audio: 1/2 Extras: Value: Review: Video: The Criterion Collection has a brilliant track record when it comes to restorations of catalogue titles, (considering that’s a good part of what they do). There has hardly been a [...]
Cast: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore Directed by: John Requa, Glenn Ficarra Written by: Dan Fogelman Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: Value: Read more about Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Review: Video: The video transfer here is something of an anomaly. On the one hand, it’s incredibly clean – no instances [...]
Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci Directed by: Joe Johnston Written by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Genre: Action/Adventure Rating: Video: 1/2 Audio: Extras: 1/2 Value: Read more about Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Review: Video: 1/2 Please note that this is for the 2D Blu-ray release, not the 3D. What we have here [...]
Cast: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn Directed by: Terrence Malick Written by: Terrence Malick Genre: Drama Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: Value: Read more about The Tree of Life (2011) Review: Video: Sheer brilliance. The Tree of Life may or may not affect people on a deeply spiritual level, but the one common factor that [...]
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Jeremy Irons Directed by: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff Written by: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton Genre: Animation, Family Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: 1/2 Value: Review: Video: Is it any surprise that the picture quality here is breathtaking? Disney has taken their picture quality seriously from the get-go, releasing gorgeous restored [...]
Cast: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost Directed by: Joe Cornish Written by: Joe Cornish Genre: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: Value: Read more about Attack the Block (2011) Review: Video: Attack the Block is a very visually interesting film, and the transfer reflects Joe Cornish’s intentions quite nicely. The film takes place [...]
Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: 1/2 Value: Review: Video: Unsurprisingly, Disney has provided us with yet another impeccable video transfer. For a film that is seventy years old, there is not a single instance of aging – no debris, no scratches, no grain, nothing at all to compromise the image. While it may go against what [...]
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick Directed by: Orson Welles Written by: Ben Mankiewicz, Orson Welles Genre: Drama Rating: Video: Audio: Extras: Value: Review: Video: An important thing to remember about the appearance of Citizen Kane is that it sometimes tries to replicate the look of newsreel footage, especially in the first portion of [...]
