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The Hurt Locker Wins Big at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards

Rebecca Wright — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:50:36 +0000

Here are the nominees, with the winners listed in bold: Best Picture: “Avatar” “The Blind Side” “District 9″ “An Education” “The Hurt Locker” “Inglourious Basterds” “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” “A Serious Man” “Up” “Up in the Air” Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” George Clooney, “Up in the Air” Colin Firth, “A Single Man” Morgan Freeman, “Invictus” Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker” Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Matt Damon, [...]

DVD Review: The Brothers Warner

Rebecca Wright — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:14:37 +0000

Warner Bros. | 2008 | 94 Mins. | Unrated These days with the major motion picture studios parts of much bigger business conglomerates, it’s easy to forget that it was individual men who initially built the film business into what it is today. Filmmaker Cass Warner Sperling is the granddaughter of Harry Warner, one of the [...]

DVD Review: Clint Eastwood – 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Brothers

Rebecca Wright — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:18:02 +0000

Warner Bros | 1968-2008 | 19 Discs | Rated R These days, Clint Eastwood is considered an American institution. With his 80th birthday nearly upon us, it’s amazing to realize he’s been an actor since the mid 1950’s, with a list of credits that spans for pages. By the 1970’s Eastwood had added director and producer [...]

DVD Review: FlashFoward – Season One, Part One

Rebecca Wright — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:54:22 +0000

Disney/Buena Vista | 2009 | 430 mins. | Not Rated Created by Brannon Braga (24) and David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight), adapted from Robert J. Sawyer’s novel, FlashFoward appears to be a series that hopes to win over Lost fans by the time that series leaves the air by the end of this season. Whether [...]

DVD Review: Night Court – The Complete Third Season

Rebecca Wright — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:06:07 +0000

Warner Bros. | 1985-86 | 526 mins. | Unrated I was eleven-years-old when Night Court began airing in January of 1984, and a sophomore in college when the series took its final curtain call in 1992. Through all of those years, I was a pretty faithful watcher. The series, which centered on the night shift of [...]

Blu-ray Review: Mona Lisa Smile

Rebecca Wright — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:36:43 +0000

Sony Pictures | 2003 | 117 mins. | Rated PG-13 Mona Lisa Smile is one of those movies you can’t help but watch and wonder what might have been. When I was tempted to refer to the film as Dead Poets Society light, but that would do a real injustice to the 1989 Robin Williams film [...]

Blu-ray Review: Precious

Rebecca Wright — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:37:32 +0000

Lionsgate Films | 2009 | 109 mins. | Rated R Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, Precious is a film I avoided seeing for as long as possible. I knew it would be hard to stomach. Now that I have seen it, I can say what I suspected is true, but even so, every movie [...]

Blu-ray Review: The Informant!

Rebecca Wright — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:12:05 +0000

Warner Bros. | 2009 | 108 mins. | Rated R The main character in The Informant! is a fairly high ranking corporate executive who goes undercover to spy on his company for the FBI. At one point, he remarks he feels like he’s living two lives—that he’s been split into two people. As I was watching [...]

Spartacus 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Release May 25th

Rebecca Wright — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:20 +0000

Synopsis: Spartacus, the genre-defining epic from director Stanley Kubrick, is the legendary tale of a bold gladiator (Kirk Douglas) who led a triumphant Roman slave revolt. Filmed in glorious Technicolor, the action-packed spectacle won four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Featuring a cast of screen legends such as Laurence Olivier, Charles [...]

DVD Review: Elvis (1979)

Rebecca Wright — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:38:04 +0000

Shout Factory | 1979 | 170 mins. | Not Rated Airing on ABC just two years after his untimely death, Elvis was the first film to examine the life of the legendary entertainer. Directed by John Carpenter (Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China), the three-hour biopic ends in 1969, thus avoiding the last several years of [...]