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   Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry was released so long ago and has been
reviewed so many times, that there’s little left to say about the movie that hasn't
been said already. Furthermore, everyone’s seen it. Well, almost -- I actually found
one person who hadn’t. So, for those few who have not seen it (or, perhaps,
can’t remember it), here’s a synopsis: Clint ... (Read the full review by Doug
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Features & Columns
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Video Roundup – Recent HD Releases
Julie Taymor has directed something unique in Across the Universe, a film that
in the same instant seems familiar and nostalgic yet fresh, vital, and alive. The
soundtrack is all songs by the Beatles, reimagined and rearranged to fit a plot about a
Liverpool boy named Jude (Jim Sturgess) who ... (more) |
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Reference Videos
Now: HD DVD and Blu-ray discs added!
These discs can also help you evaluate components either at home or at your dealer’s
showroom. If you are going shopping for a new system or component, it is helpful to listen
to ... (more) |
HD DVD and Blu-ray Reviews - Music, Movies and TV
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Patton
Patton has arrived on Blu-ray Disc as part of a
five-title Father’s Day promotion. The other titles are A Bridge Too Far, Battle
of Britain, The Longest Day, and The Sand Pebbles. While taking some
issue with Fox and MGM for thinking all dads are sitting around salivating for World War
II titles, one must appreciate that these major studios have ... (more) |
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 Natural Born Killers
Admirers of director Oliver Stone’s work will be happy to
learn that his controversial and oft-cited masterpiece Natural Born Killers has now
been released on Blu-ray with a re-mastered soundtrack in TrueHD Dolby 5.1. Stone’s Natural
Born Killers has been released previously in ... (more) |
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There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood tells the epic story of Daniel
Plainview, a silver prospector turned oilman during the oil boom in the late 1800s, who
builds from one success to another and establishes a reputation as the foremost
independent oil man in the southwest United States. Directed and scripted by Paul Thomas
Anderson, There Will Be Blood is loosely ... (more) |
DVD Reviews - Movies and TV
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Under the Same Moon
This Mexican film is sweet, uplifting, and well worth seeing.
Though it flirts with the difficult issue of illegal immigration, it is more substantially
the poignant story of a separated mother and son and their effort to be reunited in the
United States.... (more) |
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John Adams
Whether they intend to or not, historians write about the past
through the filter of the present. David McCullough’s biography of John Adams (Paul
Giamatti), on which this seven-part miniseries is based, follows Adams as first Vice
President and then as second President of the United States. Throughout, I found myself
inevitably reflecting on ... (more) |
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In Bruges
"If I'd grown up on a farm and was retarded, Bruges might
impress me, but I didn't, so it doesn't." Those are the words of mob hitman Ray
(Farrell), who's been sent to the Belgian town with his partner Ken (Gleeson) to lay low
after botching a recent job. Their boss Harry (Fiennes) insists .... (more) |
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Class tous risques (The
Big Risk)
When it was first released, this film was overshadowed by
Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, which made Jean-Paul Belmondo into a major star.
In fact, at the time the Godard movie came out, I was haunting the art-house theater in
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Les Amants (The Lovers)
Louis Malle made Les Amants in 1958 when he was only
25. To his amazement, it won the coveted Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival
that year. But it was denounced worldwide for the same reasons it was acclaimed, its
critique of bourgeois values and its explicit ... (more) |
DVD Reviews - Documentaries
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Radiant City: Population Restless
This Canadian documentary explores what attracts us to and
then defeats us in suburban living. We center on a family of four newly escaped from the
congestion, noise and crime of the big city. They are living in a conventional tract house
in a half-built, not very green development ... (more) |
DVD Reviews - Music
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Company
In 1970, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim rocked the world
of musical theater with Company, a show that broke all the traditional rules.
Sondheim has gone on since to write shows that shatter yet more rules, productions like Follies,
A Little Night Music (which gave birth to the ... (more) |
