DVD Release: Touched By An Angel: The Complete Series

By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing Touched By An Angel: The Complete Series on DVD, featuring all 214 episodes from the nine seasons of the popular faith-based drama that ran from 1994 to 2003.  The series follows a trio of angels, Tess (Della Resse), Monica (Roma Downey), and Andrew the “Angel of Death” (John… Read More DVD Release: Touched By An Angel: The Complete Series

Blu-ray Release: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Signature Collection

By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing their beloved 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray, to kick off their new Signature Collection series.  Famously voiced by Adriana Caselotti, Snow White is a charming princess who escapes the clutches of the evil Queen (Lucilla La Verne), and finds herself in the forest… Read More Blu-ray Release: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Signature Collection

Criterion Review: Inside Llewyn Davis

By John Corrado Last week, Joel and Ethan Coen’s folk music masterpiece Inside Llewyn Davis was released on Blu-ray, through the Criterion Collection.  Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a folk singer drifting aimlessly through the burgeoning music scene of Greenwich Village in 1961, struggling to piece his broken life back together again, while trying to… Read More Criterion Review: Inside Llewyn Davis

Blu-ray Release: Hyena Road

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing the recent Canadian epic Hyena Road on Blu-ray.  Directed by Paul Gross, the modern war film focuses on a group of Canadian soldiers stationed in Kandahar, charting the stories of an idealistic young sniper (Rossif Sutherland) and tough intelligence officer (Paul Gross), who often clash in their differing… Read More Blu-ray Release: Hyena Road

Blu-ray Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) This week, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the critically acclaimed indie dramedy The Diary of a Teenage Girl on Blu-ray.  Minnie (Bel Powley) is a 15 year old aspiring artist in 1970s San Francisco, who accelerates her coming of age when she starts an inappropriate relationship with her freewheeling mother’s (Kristen… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Blu-ray Review: Hotel Transylvania 2

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Today, Sony Pictures is releasing last year’s popular sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 on Blu-ray.  The film opens with the plucky vampire Mavis (Selena Gomez) and human Jonny (Andy Samberg) getting married at the monster hotel.  This leads to the birth of their son Dennis, a half-human, half-vampire child that… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hotel Transylvania 2

Blu-ray Review: Irrational Man

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest from writer-director Woody Allen, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Irrational Man on Blu-ray today.  Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) is a brooding professor who has just started teaching philosophy at a local university, where he catches the attention of bright young student Jill (Emma Stone).  But when he… Read More Blu-ray Review: Irrational Man

Blu-ray Release: Infinitely Polar Bear

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the small gem Infinitely Polar Bear on Blu-ray, after a long run on the festival circuit.  Based on writer-director Maya Forbes own childhood in the 1970s, the film follows Cameron (Mark Ruffalo), a charming but erratic man with bipolar disorder whose wife (Zoe Saldana) goes away to… Read More Blu-ray Release: Infinitely Polar Bear

Blu-ray 3D Release: Wolf Totem

By John Corrado Last week, Sony Pictures released acclaimed director Jean-Jacues Annaud’s Wolf Totem on Blu-ray 3D.  Taking place during China’s Cultural Revolution, the story follows Chen Zhen (Shaofeng Feng), a young student who is sent to live with the herdsman in Mongolia. Although their livestock face threats from the surrounding wolves, the villagers have found ways to live symbiotically,… Read More Blu-ray 3D Release: Wolf Totem

DVD Release: Pawn Sacrifice

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing the solid biopic Pawn Sacrifice on DVD.  The film dramatizes the famous 1972 chess match between the increasingly paranoid American prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire), and celebrated Russian Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber), in a battle that becomes about much more than just pieces on a board. Directed by… Read More DVD Release: Pawn Sacrifice