HOME VIDEO HERALD: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (BLU-RAY)
By Brian Lafferty January 23, 2012 (San Diego) – The last few years have been rough on a lot of people. People have lost their jobs, they don’t know how to support themselves and their families, and...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (DVD)
By Brian Lafferty March 6, 2012 (San Diego) – Anthology films are like short story collections and concept albums. Like the former, they offer an eclectic selection of stories. Like a concept album,...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: MONEYBALL (DVD)
By Brian Lafferty April 24, 2012 (San Diego) – As a die-hard San Diego Padres fan, I sympathize with Billy Beane, the subject of Moneyball. I can understand the frustration with the financial...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: ...TICK...TICK...TICK... (DVD)
By Brian Lafferty April 24, 2012 (San Diego) – Alfred Hitchcock once opined that a great film requires three things: the script, the script and the script. I would also add a fourth element, the...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: RAGE IN HEAVEN (DVD)
By Brian Lafferty June 5, 2012 (San Diego) – There is a scene in Rage in Heaven in which Philip (Robert Montgomery) lures Ward (George Sanders) up to a scaffold at a steel mill where a worker fell and...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (BLU-RAY)
By Brian Lafferty June 5, 2012 (San Diego) – The Adventures of Tintin is Steven Spielberg at his purest…and fluffiest. It’s a throwback to the early half of his career, when his forte was adventure...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: THE BLACKBIRD (DVD)
By Brian Lafferty August 16, 2012 (San Diego) – Tod Browning is a director whose career I lament as much as I admire. He began as a comedic actor who appeared in dozens of shorts (almost all of them...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: THE RAID: REDEMPTION (BLU-RAY)
By Brian Lafferty August 29, 2012 (San Diego) -- Watching The Raid: Redemption is like watching someone assemble a house of cards: one mishap and the structure crumbles. I'll start with the tone, a...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: IN DARKNESS (BLU-RAY)
By Brian Lafferty August 29, 2012 (San Diego) – A harrowing sequence of events transpire during the first thirty minutes of In Darkness, atrocities that I could describe but I won’t. That’s because as...
View ArticleHOME VIDEO HERALD: TONIGHT YOU'RE MINE (DVD)
By Brian Lafferty August 29, 2012 (San Diego) – The first half of 2012 saw the release of not one but two films by British director David Mackenzie, although the second one never played in San Diego....
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