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DVDs: Fresh Wuthering Heights, Classic Bruce Lee, Lame Lindbergh

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.04.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Emily Bronte's masterpiece Wuthering Heights has been filmed umpteen times. But like a classic play, it's well worth revisiting again and again.

Life's a Beach: China Beach Series Released

Doug Bradley | Posted 04.15.2013 | TV
Doug Bradley

I'll place my China Beach order on Monday and, within a few days, will begin to wend my way through all 62 episodes. I know there were be moments, probably a lot of them, when I'll be angry at how "wrong" the show is about "my" Vietnam.

DVDs: Great Blimp, Badlands, Buster Keaton & More

Michael Giltz | Posted 03.30.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Let's catch up with some reissues of classic -- and not so classic -- movies, with a few documentaries tossed in at the end for good measure.

DVDs: Ripper Street, Borgen, Foyle's War and More Great TV

Michael Giltz | Posted 03.29.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Great TV keeps flooding the DVD shelves because great TV is all over the airwaves. Here's a rundown of some recent releases.

DVDs: Horrible Hobbit, Great Day-Lewis, Treacly Life of Pi and More Oscar Faves Hit Stores

Michael Giltz | Posted 03.28.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

A flood of Oscar winners, nominees and those that should have been hit stores in the last few weeks. Here's a rundown of recent new films that have just debuted on DVD and BluRay.

DVDs: Masterful The Master, How to Survive a Plague and Hidden TV Gem Garrow's Law

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.30.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

One of the best films of the year, it's almost a shame to see The Master in your home rather than in gorgeous 70mm in a movie theater.

DVDs: Downton Abbey Fans Better Brace Themselves

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.03.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

This week I cover the new season of Downton Abbey (without any spoilers), some new releases including Adam Sandler's biggest hit in years, another excellent Criterion release, a John Ford gem and a round-up of (mostly) British TV. Enjoy.

The Items I Find Impossible To Open

John Blumenthal | Posted 04.01.2013 | Fifty
John Blumenthal

OK, you just bought a jar of kosher pickles and you're dying to put one on the burger you just barbecued. You should be able to just unscrew the lid easily, remove the juicy pickle from its briny bathwater and slap it on the meat. This used to be easy. Not anymore.

DVDs: Woody, Spike and Wim Wenders Keep 'Em Coming

Michael Giltz | Posted 03.23.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

It's never easy to make a movie, much less one not geared toward the masses. Here's a rundown of new movies, documentaries, TV shows and classics getting a reissue, including one of my all-time favorite romantic dramas on BluRay.

DVDs: Lawrence of Arabia Still Dazzles With Intelligence

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.29.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

It was two in the morning and I just wanted to check out the picture and sound quality of this new restoration. Almost against my will, I was mesmerized once again by one of the most intelligent, complex and fascinating depictions of an historical figure on film.

DVDs: And the Winner Is... Alfred Hitchcock by a Landslide!

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.05.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Here's one poll you can trust: whenever film buffs vote on the best directors of all time, Alfred Hitchcock will score highly. If you're looking for a distraction on Election Day until the results are in, check out my reviews of a new boxed set of Hitch and other releases.

DVDs: Not Crazy About Mad Men, The Very Cool Peter Gunn, Goofy Carol Burnett And More

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.31.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Here's a rundown of some terrific sets that came out just in the last two or three weeks. It's impossible to put them in order of preference: many of these are gems we've been waiting a long time for.

DVDs: Strippers, Miners and the Twee Wes Anderson Strikes Again

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.25.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

At this point, either you find director Wes Anderson's sensibility tiresome and twee or you used to like it but can't bear the cult of personality around his body of work or you're in all the way. I'm in all the way.

DVDs: Indiana Jones, The Avengers, American Horror Story and More

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.06.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

The Indiana Jones quartet on BluRay for the first time. Raiders looks better than it has, but is it possible this film needs a full restoration? I couldn't help thinking it should look even better throughout.

DVDs: Catch Up With Emmy Hits 'Homeland' and 'Modern Family'

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.27.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

In the last four weeks we've had an avalanche of TV releases, including some of the best shows on television.

DVDs: Chimps Rule!

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.26.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Chimpanzee is superior family entertainment and deservedly should be lauded as the biggest hit documentary film of the year

DVDs: Is "Jaws" The Most Influential Film of All Time?

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.16.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Few films if any have proven so influential in so many areas of the movie industry as Jaws.

DVDs: Why Dr. Seuss Movies Suck

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.07.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

There's no question you'll get much more value out of watching and rewatching The Cat In The Hat than the latest stab at puffing up a Seuss tale into a movie.

DVDs: No Excuses! Catch Footnote, Deep Blue Sea, Margaret & More

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.30.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Seriously, has there ever been a better time to be a movie buff? Even if you're not wowed by Hollywood's current blockbusters, you have the entire history of cinema virtually at your fingertips.

DVDs: Breaking Bad Still Good

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.24.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

It's the best show on TV. Bar none. Why aren't you watching?

DVDs: Nyuck! Nyuck! The Three Stooges Get Their Due

Michael Giltz | Posted 08.20.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

The Three Stooges were always the blue collar comedians of live action comedy shorts. They nyucked-nyucked their way through 190 group shorts, some 28 solo shorts and a couple of feature films. That's a lot of poked eyes.

DVDs: God Save the Queen

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.03.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Have you been soaking up all the hoopla over Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee? Well, until they release a DVD set of all the goings-on in the UK, here are some other titles to tide you over.

DVDs: Scorsese Stumbles, Cruise Soars and Much More

Michael Giltz | Posted 08.01.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Madonna's career will surely inspire countless documentaries and studies in the future. But the Truth Or Dare film -- which might have been a concert throwaway -- is in fact a pretty enduring look at media manipulation and how she exploited the spotlight.

WWII Vet Sending Thousands Of Pirated Movies To U.S. Troops

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.28.2012 | Business

Meet Hyman Strachman, probably the nation's most patriotic movie pirate. For the past eight years the 92-year-old widowed World War II veteran has ...

DVDs: War Horse Stumbles

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.18.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

War Horse is based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, a solid young adult novel with classic status in the UK. It was turned into a brilliant bit of theater (really, you should see it if at all possible). But Spielberg's film fails on every level.