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Blu-ray Disc Review: "The Seventh Seal"
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 05, 2009  |  0 comments
Criterion's 1999 DVD edition of The Seventh Seal is a favorite partly because of its wonderfully substantial extras. Now the company has upped the ante by releasing Ingmar Bergman's 1957 black-and-white classic on a stunning Blu-ray Disc and adding to those extras, all now in high-def.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Angels & Demons
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 23, 2010  |  0 comments
Just as faith is the cornerstone of religion, Angels & Demons requires a large suspension of disbelief to swallow its canny combination of questionable church lore and questionable scare-mongering over particle acceleration.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Gone With The Wind
Josef Krebs  |  Jan 13, 2010  |  0 comments
I do declare, doesn't this 1939 film look dashing wrapped up in its new set of Blu-ray Discs - its 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition, to be precise.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 24, 2010  |  0 comments
Early in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, there's a big special-effects scene that finds some Death Eaters causing havoc in London. Does this sixth movie in the series fully open up the story to the world of Muggles? No: We are swiftly returned to Hogwarts School.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 28, 2009  |  0 comments
••• Extras •••••

Created from a scan of the original 1937 negative and given a digital restoration, the image of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray Disc is stunning.

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Sunshine Cleaning
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 11, 2009  |  0 comments
You might think that a film about two young women who clean up the bodily fluids of dead people could be depressing - and you'd be right.
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Blu-ray Disc Review: The Wizard of Oz (Warner)
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 17, 2009  |  0 comments
I'll spare you my memories of when I first saw The Wizard of Oz - you'll hear plenty of that malarkey in the many documentaries here - and just cut to the chase by saying that this is a stupendous-looking transfer on Blu-ray Disc, in honor of the Hollywood classic's 70th anniversary.
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Blu-ray Review: Barry Lyndon
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 01, 2011  |  0 comments

William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon relates the colorful adventures of an Irish itinerant who tries his hand at war, gambling, and financially profitable marriage while traveling through 18th-century Europe. Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 adaptation, like many of the director’s other films (including Paths of Glory, Dr.

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Blu-ray Review: Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Josef Krebs  |  Jul 22, 2011  |  0 comments

La Belle et la Bête, Jean Cocteau’s modernist and poetic interpretation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s story, is full of symbol and metaphor but uses the simplest cinematic tricks to enchant and deceive. And now, it continues to work its magic on Blu-ray.

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Blu-ray Review: Blue Valentine
Josef Krebs  |  May 13, 2011  |  0 comments

“How do you trust your feelings when they can just disappear like that?” This piece of dialogue sums up the main theme of Blue Valentine, a film that, trying to work out where love goes, looks back to where it came from in the first place.

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