Eastwood’s visceral, divisive war film receives a top-shelf A/V presentation, though be sure to skip the dull puff pieces masquerading as extras.
The film grips us with its sense of hypnotic silence, which carries suggestions of what might be termed politically apolitical pragmatism.
The end result evokes the life of working artists without sentimentality or undue grandeur.
One of Eastwood’s best films comes to high-def with an aggressively scrubbed image that robs it of some of its beauty.
The auspicious debut of one of the decade’s best directors arrives on Blu-ray with its intimate majesty impeccably preserved.
Age makeup is often an easy target for criticism.
Poor Naomi Watts just can’t escape the big blue.
The Dead Pool plays like a greatest-hits collection of Dirty Harry movie elements.
A self-described “down-east liberal,” Stoehr is all too aware of the irony that the foreword to Ride, Boldly, Ride was written by Eastwood.
The film is a precious banality best suited for 1950s television.
We scrounged up an eclectic selection, boasting the likes of Clint Eastwood, Carl Weathers, Warren Beatty, and Eminem.
The film about a million miles away from Oscar material, but Warner’s high-definition transfer is praiseworthy in and of itself.
Eastwood’s tenacious, boldly self-effacing outlaw ride through Texas receives a lovely audio/visual transfer from Warner Home Video.
This book is comprised entirely of short stories, making it an ideal sampler for those new to Sakai’s work.
Chimpanzee’s Oscar is but the latest filmic primate to captivate viewers.
Eastwood’s underappreciated masterpiece makes a stunning debut on Blu-ray with a lack of extras that arguably purposefully bucks any sense of context.
This is a smuggled-out-under-the-cover-of-darkness rehash of the 2002 two-disc DVD set.
“The most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen,” reads the tagline on Rampart’s poster. These badge-defilers would beg to differ.
Michael Fassbender appeared in almost as many movies this year as Oldman has throughout his career.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.