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New Blu-rays for August 7, 2012: Cowboys, Cops, Monsters, and Martyrs

Josef Krebs | Aug 07, 2012 | 0 comments

Rio Grande and Johnny Guitar

This week Olive Films are releasing these two

classic westerns from the early 1950s. Rio Grande (1950) is part of what is known as John Ford’s cavalry trilogy — along with Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) — based on stories by James Warner Bellah.

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, April 24, 2012 Josef Krebs | Apr 24, 2012 | 0 comments

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, April 10, 2012 Josef Krebs | Apr 10, 2012 | 0 comments

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Review: Two Takes on Tinker Tailor Solider Spy Josef Krebs | Apr 10, 2012 | 0 comments

More modest and thoughtful than action-packed, John le Carré’s 1974 spy-novel classic Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a spook story filled with civil servants (not double-0 operatives) in a world where little happens beyond talk, but the stakes riding on those conversations are supremely high.

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Dragon Slayer: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Josef Krebs | Mar 20, 2012 | 0 comments

Not so much The Da Vinci Code meets Se7en but more The Bourne Identity meets Run Lola Run, director David Fincher's scene-by-scene remake of the original 2009 Swedish adaptation of the first part of novelist Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is as if the original film had taken steroids. It's tight, tense, stylish, and very involving.

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This Week in Music and Blu-rays, Jan. 31, 2012

Josef Krebs | Jan 31, 2012 | 0 comments