Maggie Smith Archives - DVD Review & High Definition

Downton Abbey: Season 4

January 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

While the latest episodes of "Downton Abbey's" fourth season are still flickering across American TV sets, PBS has already prepared and released a Blu-Ray version of the entire season, giving fans the opportunity to experience this British [...]

Downton Abbey: Season 3

May 21, 2013 // 0 Comments

Over the past three years, "Downton Abbey" has turned into a phenomenon that is as surprising, as it is appropriate. But who would have thought that an imported television series from the UK would suddenly spark such a level of interest in the [...]

Clash Of The Titans

February 26, 2010 // 0 Comments

As the movie's remake is rolling into movie theaters, Warner Home Video has given the original 1981 special effects film "Clash Of The Titans" a bit of an overhaul, releasing in on Blu-Ray Disc. Filled with Ray Harryhausen's remarkable [...]

Harry Potter: Years1 – 6

December 15, 2009 // 0 Comments

With the release of the new movie "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, " Warner Home Video has also prepared a gift set containing all six Harry Potter movies to date, making them available to Blu-Ray fans as a tidy little set. In the 7-disc [...]

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone: Deluxe Edition

December 4, 2009 // 0 Comments

Although the books had gone to be quite successfully at the time, no one could have predicted the immense impact that J. K. Rowling's books would have had on the world of entertainment in the longer run. The years was 2001 when Harry Potter made his [...]

Clash Of The Titans

July 25, 2002 // 0 Comments

Eagerly awaited, Warner Home Video’s DVD version of the Ray Harryhausen fantasy film ’Clash Of The Titans’ is finally here for everyone to behold. ’Clash Of The Titans’ tells the story of Perseus, according to the Greek Mythology. Perseus is the [...]

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone

May 13, 2002 // 0 Comments

When the first "Harry Potter" film made it to theaters late last year, everyone was curious to find out how J.K. Rowling’s beloved book would turn out on the big screen. As it turned out, "Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone" [...]

Evil Under The Sun

March 6, 2001 // 0 Comments

In 1982’s ’Evil Under The Sun, ’ arguably the best of the Agatha Christie book-to-film transformations, Peter Ustinov once again dons the handlebar moustache and fussy virtuosity of Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot. At an exclusive island resort, [...]

Death On The Nile

February 22, 2001 // 0 Comments

Watching an Agatha Christie movie is like enjoying a cup of warm mulled wine on a rainy night. Even if viewed now as dusty relics, her mysteries spoke to the autocrat as well as the moralist demanding justice. 1978’s "Death on the Nile" was [...]

Hook

March 14, 2000 // 0 Comments

Commonly hailed as one of the few disappointments in Hollywood Wunderkind Steven Spielberg’s career, "Hook" is certainly one of the more playful movies by the director, and I have to admit that I did not particularly like the film the first [...]