DVD/Blu-Ray Releases: April 23, 2012

Headlining this week’s assortment of DVD and Blu-Ray releases is Sony Pictures’ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Adapted from Stieg Larsson’s acclaimed novel by Steven Zaillian (Contagion), David Fincher directs Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in this slick and concentrated thriller about a man (Craig) hired to uncover the mysterious disappearance of a girl who has been missing for over forty years.

Featuring a confident and sexy, yet headstrong performance from Mara, striking cinematography and a punchy score from the mind’s of Trent Reznor and Atticus Continue reading “DVD/Blu-Ray Releases: April 23, 2012”

DVD/Blu-Ray Of The Week #1: Tomboy

This week’s DVD/Blu-Ray of the week is Tomboy, writer and director Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Water Lilies.

Unafraid in its depiction of a young child’s sexual confusion, Tomboy is an affecting, well envisioned and delicately captured examination of a 10-year-old girl’s need to disguise herself as a boy in order to make friends in an unfamiliar Continue reading “DVD/Blu-Ray Of The Week #1: Tomboy”