The scent of personal catastrophe and furious impulse permeates throughout Pawel Pawlikowski’s film.
Eastwood’s tenacious, boldly self-effacing outlaw ride through Texas receives a lovely audio/visual transfer from Warner Home Video.
A wild, furious, and genuinely unsettling ego is on display in Maurice Pialat’s We Won’t Grow Old Together.
The second season of Sherlock arrives on Blu-ray from BBC in a suitably handsome package with a strong visual/audio transfer.
Chronicle is one of those rare and all too quiet reminders that big studios still can fit (relatively) small, smart movies into their lineup.
It’s a giddy, diabolical, and terminally underappreciated sequel to the film that made Joe Dante’s career.
Sony doesn’t do much to spruce up their original, excellent transfer of Sonnenfeld’s big, fun monster movie, but the product remains a worthy one.
The little good will David Mackenzie derives from his off-center choice of soundtrack.
Paramount’s highly admirable transfer of Clueless makes a renewed claim for the film’s place in the canon.
Berman, Pulcini, and Diane Lane are consistently engaged in the discussion of the production of the film.
The film does an admirable, if a bit uneven, job of looping themes of money, art, lifestyle, and myth together.
There are approximately 12 films that could have been made from the various story strands found in this ensemble thriller.
A hugely literary spy epic, BBC’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy deserves a better transfer than Acorn Media has afforded it.
Brian Dannelly’s Struck by Lightning makes an inadvertent but hugely compelling pro-bullying argument.
For better and worse, the film is a furious and stone-cold serious work of narrative activism.
HBO gives the superb second season of David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s post-Katrina drama an excellent transfer.
A Dangerous Method proves that Cronenberg is as Cronenberg does.
The show’s gloriously crude positives shine on Paramount’s transfer.
This isn’t a banner release, but it’s certainly a respectable one.
Fincher’s reputation as the best modern American director is further reinforced by this disc.