Fresh off his Oscar win for Platoon, filmmaker Oliver Stone transitioned directly from the jungle combat of Vietnam to a very different battlefield in the cutthroat trenches of Wall Street. Released in 1987, the financial drama was a solid box office success and won star Michael Douglas an Oscar, but was also greeted by mixed… Read More How Much Is Enough? | Wall Street (1987) Blu-ray
In the decade between its disastrous theatrical failure in 1982 and the more triumphant reception of its 1992 Director’s Cut, Ridley Scott’s science-fiction masterwork Blade Runner endured as a cult item with a small but loyal fandom. The film’s fortunes started to turn around with the accidental discovery of an unfinished workprint version screened as… Read More You Were Made As Well As We Could Make You | Blade Runner: Workprint Cut (1982) Blu-ray
David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s famed science fiction novel Dune is my favorite movie. This is, typically, not an easy thing to explain to people. The film was a tremendous critical and box office failure in its day. The fact that its recent remake (or re-adaptation of the source material, if you must)… Read More Long Live the Fighters! | Dune (1984) 4K Ultra HD Ultimate Edition
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