Hitchocock classics return on Blu-ray this week:

DVDs for Feb. 21 by Boo Allen This week, we begin with the Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Rebecca (****1/2), Spellbound (****1/2 ), Notorious (****). Fox/MGM gives Blu-ray debuts to three unrated Alfred Hitchcock classics, looking better than ever and even filled with extras. In the Oscar-winning Best Picture Rebecca, based on Daphne Du [...]

The week’s DVDs begin 16th century Flanders:

DVDs for Feb. 14 by Boo Allen   This week, we begin in 16th century Flanders:   The Mill and the Cross (****) As strange as it sounds, this visually stunning film, a personal favorite from last year, from Polish writer-director Lech Majewski, actually “enters” a still painting—that of Pieter Bruegel’s masterpiece “The Procession to [...]

Classic French horror arrives on DVD:

  DVDs for Feb. 7 by Boo Allen     This week, we begin in France:     The Cinema of Jean Rollin: Fascination, The Nude Vampire, Lips of Blood, Shiver of the Vampire, The Iron Rose. In the 1970s, French film-makers Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol were expanding on their established [...]

The week’s DVDs begin in South Texas:

  DVDs for Jan. 31 by Boo Allen   This week we begin in South Texas:   Texas Killing Fields (***) This dark authentic drama shows how catching murderers is probably much nastier than the way it is usually portrayed on television. Don Ferrarone wrote the script, allegedly based on true events, and Ami Canaan [...]

Monogram Cowboys return in this week’s DVDs:

  DVDs for Jan. 24 by Boo Allen     This week we begin in the old west:   Monogram Cowboy Collection: Volume Two Fort Osage, Wagons West, Canyon Raiders, The Gunman, Stage to Blue River, Night Raiders, Montana Incident, Wyoming Roundup. On Demand Warner Archive returns with their second batch of these entertaining cowboy [...]

A lost Italian comedy heads the week’s DVDs:

DVDs for Jan. 17 by Boo Allen This week, we begin in Italy: Il Cappotto (The Overcoat) (***1/2) A few years after his Italian film-making compatriots forged new cinematic ground with their Neo Realist movement, director Alberto Lattuada turned out this whimsical satire based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story“The Overcoat.” But even by 1952, things [...]

It’s batter up in the week’s top DVD:

DVDs for Jan. 10 by Boo Allen   This week, we begin in the dugout:   Moneyball (***1/2) Director Bennett Miller, screenwriter Steven Zaillian, and actor Brad Pitt have combined to somehow create an interesting film based on a boring subject. No, not baseball, statistics. Using Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book as its source, the film [...]

DVDs return to the Old West:

  DVDs for Dec. 20 by Boo Allen   This week we begin in the Old West:   Monogram Cowboy Collection Oklahoma Blues, Partners of the Sunset, Cowboy Cavalier, Gun Law Justice, Outlaw Gold, Man From Sonora, Oklahoma Justice, Cavalry Scout On Demand Warner Archives has packaged nine Westerns onto three discs featuring three standout [...]

Replay the painful 2011 World Series on DVD:

  DVDs for Dec. 13 by Boo Allen   This week we begin in the dugout:   The St. Louis Cardinals 2011 World Series Collector’s Edition, World Series 2011 This one hurts. Yes, the St. Louis Cardinals did win the 2011 World Series, but, for some, it was all about those Texas Rangers. Major League [...]

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