Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review

DVD: Citizen Jane – Battle for the City (2016)

DVD: Citizen Jane – Battle for the City (2016)

November 23, 2017 | By

To Torontonians, Jane Jacobs is perhaps best remembered as one of the key figures who managed to successfully kill the major section of the Spadina Expressway in 1971, a route that would’ve provided drivers in the west end with a needed alternate expressway to reach the city from mid-town suburbs…

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TV: Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971)

TV: Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971)

November 16, 2017 | By

Running a compact 25 mins. Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story is a satire of the Nixon Administration, which was past the halfway point of its first term mandate when the short was scheduled for airing in February of 1972, but as the lore surrounding this ‘lost’ film goes…

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BR: September (1987)

BR: September (1987)

November 16, 2017 | By

Released the same year as Radio Days, Woody Allen’s September retains the cast members Mia Farrow and Dianne Wiest, but the tone harkens back to the auteur’s Interiors (1978), a more dour and overwrought attempt at Serious Drama…

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BR: Take the Money and Run (1969)

BR: Take the Money and Run (1969)

November 16, 2017 | By

There’s a progression in Woody Allen’s early as he moved from screenwriter to director, after having penned TV scripts and making the leap to What’s New Pussycat? (1965), and although What’s Up Tiger Lily? (1966) is credited as his first directorial feature film…

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TV: Stranger Things – Season 2 (2017)

TV: Stranger Things – Season 2 (2017)

November 16, 2017 | By

Netflix’s hit series returned a week prior to Halloween with 9 episodes that offered a tonally different set of further adventures of the Byers family & Eleven (Elle), as two storylines head off in different directions until a sense of friendship brings them and everyone else together for a resolution that’s both satisfying for the characters and the series…

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