By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the excellent documentary Merchants of Doubt on Blu-ray.  The film fascinatingly explores how fake scientists and sleazy public relations firms are hired by companies and political parties to cover up potentially harmful truths, from the tobacco industry’s unscrupulous approach to keeping toxic cigarettes on the market,… Read More Blu-ray Release: Merchants of Doubt

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing the excellent and highly recommended thriller ’71 on Blu-ray.  The year is 1971, and after his troop is deployed to a small town in Belfast right on the border of the Protestant and Catholic conflicts, a young soldier (Jack O’Connell) gets lost in the increasingly violent riots and… Read More Blu-ray Release: ’71

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing Danny Collins on DVD, a nice surprise from earlier in the year.  Danny Collins (Al Pacino) is an aging pop star who has grown dissatisfied of his affluent life of drugs and sex, when his manager (Christopher Plummer) gives him an undelivered letter that John Lennon wrote forty years earlier,… Read More DVD Release: Danny Collins