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Blu-ray Review: 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' (2019 Buena Vista Home Entertainment Reissue)

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The packaging for the 2019 "Multi-Screen"  re-issue of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back  blends elements of Roger Kastel's classic 1980 "Gone With the Wind"-style poster art with new elements depicting iconic characters and vehicles from Irvin Kershner's classic follow-on to Star Wars: A New Hope. © 2019 Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) On September 22, 2019, in anticipation of the December 20 premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) re-issued the existing Star Wars Saga and Anthology films on Blu-ray. This re-release features all-new cover art loosely based on poster art from the 1970s, '80s, '90s, 2000s, and the current Disney/Lucasfilm era. It's also dubbed the "Multi-Screen" Edition because each Blu-ray package comes with both the physical Blu-ray disc (BD) and a code for the Movies Anywhere/iTunes/Google Play/Vudu digital copy.  Publi

Blu-ray Review: 'The Post'

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On Tuesday, April 17, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released Steven Spielberg's 2017 political/historical thriller The Post on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K UHD Blu-ray. Starring Academy Award-winning actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and the newspaper's dogged editor Ben Bradlee, The Post dramatizes the duo's 1971 decision to publish "the Pentagon Papers" in defiance of the secretive - and vindictive - Nixon Administration. (C) 2018 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment OSCAR ® winners Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks team up for the first time in this thrilling film based on a true story. Determined to uphold the nation’s civil liberties, Katharine Graham (Streep), publisher of The Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. But the two must risk their careers –– and their freedom –– to bring truth to light in this powerful film wit