Blu-ray Movie Reviews

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Is it possible to create high drama from the inventi

The Criterion Collection Movie ••••½ Disc ••••½

The increased visual resolution of the Blu-ray Disc format isn't only there to bo

Reprise (10 Blu-ray Discs) Archives ••••• Picture •••• Sound ••••• Extras •••••

"FUCK THE AUDIENCE." So say

Movie ••••½ Picture ••••½ Sound •••• Extras ••••½

Is he or isn't

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.

Call me crazy, but I couldn't help seeing Coraline as an indictment of capitalism. I'm referring to the part of capitalism that, with its eye-popping advertising, promises everything you thought would make you happy but actually offers a mostly gray, overworked existence in which you're a slave to the computer, you have no time for your family, and your soul is not your own.