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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 29th, 2016 – You Down with PPZ? Yeah, You Know Me

Josh Zyber — Tue, 31 May 2016 12:00:58 +0000

Another long weekend has flown by too quickly. Let’s start the new week as we always do, by looking at all the latest Blu-ray releases. As few as there may be this week, perhaps you’ll find a disc of interest? New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies‘ – “It is a truth universally acknowledged...

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‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’ Review: No, It Won’t

Philip Brown — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:00:26 +0000

If nothing else, Wim Wenders deserves credit for his experimentations in contradiction at the center of ‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’. The film is an attempt to make a subdued melodrama. That’s tough enough to pull off (just ask Atom Egoyan 90% of the time). However, on top of that nearly insurmountable challenge, Wenders also...

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‘The Salt of the Earth’ Review: Poetry and Philosophy through Photography

Philip Brown — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:00:01 +0000

The Oscar nominated documentary ‘The Salt of the Earth’ chronicles the extraordinary life, career and work of photographer Sabastião Salgado. In most documentarians’ hands, that might suggest a simple run through the photographer’s greatest hits with static talking heads. Thankfully, poetic German filmmaker Wim Wenders (‘Wings of Desire’) took up the cause and delivered something...

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