Steven Spielberg
Minority Report on Blu-ray
Set in the chillingly possible future of 2054, Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report is arguably the most intelligently provocative Sci-Fi thriller since Blade Runner. Like Ridley Scott’s “future noir” classic, Spielberg’s gritty vision was freely adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, with its central premise of “Precrime” law enforcement, totally reliant on [...]
Lara Croft – Tomb Raider on Blu-ray
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Like the video game series it’s based on, Tomb Raider is best enjoyed for its physical strategies, since even casual scrutiny of story details will induce a headache. It’s more concerned with puzzles than plot, populated with characters that don’t have personalities so much as attitudes. It’s [...]
Jurassic Park on Blu-ray
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he’d ever made prior to Schindler’s List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton’s novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of [...]
Minority Report on Blu-ray
Set in the chillingly possible future of 2054, Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report is arguably the most intelligently provocative Sci-Fi thriller since Blade Runner. Like Ridley Scott’s “future noir” classic, Spielberg’s gritty vision was freely adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, with its central premise of “Precrime” law enforcement, totally reliant on [...]
War of the Worlds on Blu-ray
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Despite super effects, a huge budget, and the cinematic pedigree of alien-happy Steven Spielberg, this take on H.G. Wells’s novel is basically a horror film packaged as a Sci-Fi thrill ride. Instead of a mad slasher, however, Spielberg (along with writers Josh Friedman & David Koepp) utilizes [...]
Ai (Import) on Blu-ray
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History will place an asterisk next to A.I. as the film Stanley Kubrick might have directed. But let the record also show that Kubrick–after developing this project for some 15 years–wanted Steven Spielberg to helm this astonishing Sci-Fi rendition of Pinocchio, claiming (with good [...]
Gremlins (Special Edition) (Blu-Ray)
Steven Spielberg’s classic monster movie comes to Blu-ray Disc in a special edition that will thrill fans! Director Joe Dante directs Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates in this funny and scary classic fright flick!
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Gremlins on Blu-ray
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Gremlins is a whee of a film (if you don’t mind the occasional gross-out) from producer Steven Spielberg, writer Chris Columbus, and director Joe Dante. Zach Galligan is the young man whose inventor father (Hoyt Axton) gives him an odd Christmas present: a tiny, furry creature that [...]
Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition + Standard DVD+ BD-Live) on Blu-ray (1940)
Amazon.comThis Disney masterpiece from 1940 will hold up forever precisely because it doesn’t restrain or temper the most elementalemotions and themes germane to its story. Based on the Collodi tale about a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy, Pinocchio is among the most magical, mythical, and [...]
The Searchers on Blu-ray (1956)
A favorite film of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford’s The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it’s the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western–the [...]