High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewJohn Turturro Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/john-turturro/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 TIFF Journal: Gloria Bell https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-2018-gloria-bell-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-2018-gloria-bell-movie-review/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:00:00 +0000 Jason Gorber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=93706 Fans of Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 Chilean film Gloria may be perturbed to find the director retreading old grounds. Gloria Bell at times feels like a shot-for-shot remake with an English cast headed by Julianne Moore. However, in Lelio’s hands, the film also feels as fresh as ever. The story is reinvigorated by its new settings...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/off-the-shelf-quiz-show-bluray/feed/ 2 ‘Hands of Stone’ Review: Head of Air https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/hands-of-stone-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/hands-of-stone-movie-review/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:00:09 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=79830 ‘Hands of Stone’, Hollywood’s latest uninspired boxing melodrama, is a big, long, sweeping affair. Robert De Niro has a supporting role, just in case anyone considers that a selling point anymore. What is it about boxing that seems to fascinate filmmakers to no end? I’m sure the one-two masterpiece whammy of ‘Rocky’ and ‘Raging Bull’...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/hands-of-stone-movie-review/feed/ 6 ‘The Night Of’ 1.08 Recap: “Did You Kill Her?” https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-108-recap/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-108-recap/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:00:48 +0000 Shannon Nutt http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=79788 Well, this didn’t go quite as I expected it to. HBO gives viewers a feature-length (roughly 95 minutes) final episode to ‘The Night Of’ that wraps up the trial and seems to answer the question of who killed Andrea Cornish. But those expecting to really see what happened may walk away from this series disappointed....

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-108-recap/feed/ 4 ‘The Night Of’ 1.02 Recap: “The Truth Can Go to Hell” https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-102-recap/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-102-recap/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:00:38 +0000 Shannon Nutt http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=78900 Plenty of television series (or in this case, miniseries) begin with strong pilots, only to have things fall apart after the first episode. That’s not quite the case with the second entry of ‘The Night Of’. However, it does turn out to be far less engaging than the introductory episode, if still quite watchable. The...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-102-recap/feed/ 1 ‘The Night Of’ Pilot Recap: “I Want a Lawyer” https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-pilot-recap/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-pilot-recap/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:00:48 +0000 Shannon Nutt http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=78779 A new eight-episode miniseries for HBO (co-produced by the BBC and based on the short-lived British series ‘Criminal Justice’), ‘The Night Of’ has the potential to become the most talked-about show on the pay cable network since the first season of ‘True Detective’. It’s a taut mystery that takes aim at the criminal justice system...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/night-of-pilot-recap/feed/ 15 ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ Review: An Unexpected ‘Noah’ Sequel https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/exodus-gods-and-kings-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/exodus-gods-and-kings-review/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:00:32 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=66891 The strangest major studio release last spring was Darren Aronofsky’s wacky ‘Noah’. In a perverse way, it makes sense that 2014 should wrap up with another ambiguous Old Testament blockbuster. Ridley Scott’s twist on the Ten Commandments serves up a Moses with questionable sanity and harshly violent CinemaScope spectacle in a manner that the old...

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