Jack Nicholson

“GoodFellas” gets 25th Anniversary treatment

January 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment has just announced an 25th Anniversary Edition of Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas, slated for release on Blu-Ray Disc and DVD in May. “GoodFellas” explores the criminal life like no other movie.  Following the rise [...]

The Terror

April 28, 2011 // 0 Comments

I am a huge fan of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations from the 60s and, though not a Poe adaptation, when the 1963 gothic horror film "The Terror" arrived in high definition on my desk I simply had to check it out. A young French [...]

Anger Management

May 16, 2008 // 0 Comments

I remembered seeing "Anger Management" when it first arrived on DVD a few years ago, but I did not recall many details about the film per se so I decided to give the film another check-up when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment sent over the [...]

The Departed

March 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

Martin Scorsese's genius and talent explodes in this rip-bang, return-to-gangster form of a film that easily deserved the big dog Oscars heaped on its plate at the end of February. I remember my first viewings of 'Raging Bull, ' [...]

The Departed

March 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

Martin Scorsese's genius and talent explodes in this rip-bang, return-to-gangster form of a film that easily deserved the big dog Oscars heaped on its plate at the end of February. I remember my first viewings of 'Raging Bull,' [...]

Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition

November 16, 2006 // 0 Comments

Chronicling the final five years of American socialist/journalist John Reed, "Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition" presents an ambitious look at the professional and personal life of the author behind "Ten Days That Shook the World" [...]

Hoffa

February 12, 2004 // 0 Comments

With Danny DeVito’s "Hoffa, " 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is serving up a spectacular movie as a grand DVD, complete with great supplements. "Hoffa," of course, tells the story of Jimmy Hoffa, the legendary and controversial [...]

Anger Management

August 6, 2003 // 0 Comments

’Anger Management’ is one of the latest comedies to hit DVD, pairing up the incomparable Jack Nicholson with none other than SNL alumni Adam Sandler. The result is a hilarious movie filled with Sandler’s antic’s and Nicholson’s wacky quirks – [...]

About Schmidt

June 16, 2003 // 0 Comments

He’s played the Joker, the Devil, a rebellious mental patient, a dipsomaniac astronaut and a homicidal writer. For the better part of the last three decades, mention Jack Nicholson and a slew of iconic images come to mind. Yet until last year’s [...]

The Pledge

June 27, 2001 // 0 Comments

After directing only three films, I don’t know if Sean Penn can qualify as an auteur, but his movies certainly have a signature style. Penn tends to make films featuring realistic characters, which have a fatal flaw and find themselves facing [...]
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