DISCussion: What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray (8.28.12)

Vertigo is a highly regarded classic thriller, boasting a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, No. 50 on the IMDB Top 250 list and most recently voted the No. 1 movie of all time by film critics in Sight & Sounds Top 50. Because of Universal Studios’ 100th Anniversary, Vertigo has earned a rerelease on Blu-ray.

First Release
- Battleship (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Headhunters (DVD and Blu-ray)
- The Pirates! A Band of Misfits (DVD and Blu-ray)
- The Lucky One (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Think Like A Man (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Monseiur Lazhar (DVD and Blu-ray)
- The Moth Diaries (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Lovely Molly (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Apartment 143 (DVD and Blu-ray)

Re-Release
- Quadrophenia (1979) (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Lonesome (1928) (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Jurassic Park (1993) (Blu-ray)
- Vertigo (1958) (Blu-ray)
- The Birds (1963) (Blu-ray)
- Atonement (2007) (Blu-ray)
- Airport (1970) (Blu-ray)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition (2001) (Blu-ray)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition (2002) (Blu-ray)
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition (2003) (Blu-ray)
- Scarface (1983) (Blu-ray)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (Blu-ray)
- Out of Africa (1985) (Blu-ray)
- Harvey (1950) (Blu-ray)


Vertigo (1958) (Blu-ray) *Recommendation of the Week*

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor (screenplay), Boileau-Narcejac (novel)
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

What’s the Deal?
Vertigo is one of many classic thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on a novel by French novelist Boileau-Narcejac, John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart) is a private detective from San Francisco who suffers from acrophobia (a fear of heights). One day Scottie is asked by his former college roommate to follow his beautiful wife Madeline (Kim Novak), who he fears is suicidal.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 98% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.8/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: "Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece," an original documentary; Hitchcock's foreign censorship ending; Original & restoration theatrical trailers; Storyboards, production drawings, production photographs & advertising materials

Amazon Price: $14.98 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Tons of releases this week, with highlights being summer blockbuster Battleship, the Norwegian thriller Headhunters and the Aardman Animations movie The Pirates! A Band of Misfits. Many Universal movies continue to earn rereleases for the anniversary, such as The Birds, Atonement and Jurassic Park for your viewing pleasure.



Battleship (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Peter Berg
Written by Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skargard, Rhianna, Brooklyn Decker

What’s the Deal?
If watching a poor clone of Michael Bay actioner will rot your brain cells, then Battleship is the movie for you. Based on the Hasbro board game and from the producers of the Transformers series, Battleship is — in our opinion — an extremely stupid action movie that sunk at the U.S. box office.

Aliens start to invade Earth, and only one ship is in their forcefield, the U.S.S. John Paul Jones, captained by Lieutenant Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch, John Carter), a man who once tried to steal a chicken burrito. During the movie, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker and Gregory D. Gadson have a competition to see who can give the worst performance.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 34% (poor)
Player Affinity Score: 2.7/10 (read our review)

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $16.99 (DVD), $19.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): Content: 1.5 stars, Video 5 stars, Audio 5 stars, Extras 3.5 stars, Replay 2 stars (out of 5). Rent It.



Headhunters (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Morten Tyldum
Written by Lars Gudmestad, Ulf Gudmestad (screenplay), Jo Nesbø (novel)
Starring: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund, Eivind Sander

What’s the Deal?
Because of the success of the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the rest of The Millennium Trilogy, lots more crime fiction has come out from Scandinavia in novels, on television and film. Jo Nesbø has been a very successful writer and his novel, Headhunters, was adapted in Norway, with a Hollywood remake already on the way.

Harry Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a top corporate headhunter who lives a lifestyle beyond his means. To supplement his income, Harry is also an expert art theft. Harry thinks the answer to his problems comes when he meets Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones), a former special forces soldier and businessman, a perfect candidate for one of his clients who also has a lost painting. But when Harry crosses Clas he ends up making a deadly enemy.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 92% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.5/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Closed Caption; Behind the Scenes; Theatrical Trailer

Amazon Price: $15.95 (DVD), $25.97 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A


The Pirates! A Band of Misfits (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
Written by Gideon Defoe
Starring: Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton

What’s the Deal?
Gideon Defoe adapted his own comic novel, The Pirates! In an Adventures with Scientists, into this film, the first stop-motion feature by Aardman Animations since the delightful 2005 movie Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Hugh Grant voices a man named The Pirate Captain, who fortunately for him, grows up to be a pirate captain. After years of humiliation ,The Pirate Captain sets out to win the Pirate of the Year competition and he gets his big break when he meets Charles Darwin (David Tennant, Doctor Who) when he says the Pirate Captain’s “parrot” is really a dodo and it could be a ticket to fame and fortune. But that runs the risk of facing the pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton).

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 86% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 7.5/10 (read our review)

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $18.85 (DVD), $24.96 (Blu-ray), $24.96 (3D Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 4 stars, Video 5 stars, Audio 4.5 stars, Extras 4 stars, Replay 3.5 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended.



The Lucky One (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Scott Hicks
Written by Will Fetters (screenplay), Nicholas Sparks (novel)
Starring: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Jay R. Ferguson, Blythe Danner

What’s the Deal?
Nicholas Sparks is an unstoppable beast, having written 16 romantic novels with seven of them already adapted into films. In The Lucky One, Zac Efron plays Logan Thibault, a U.S. Marine who served in Iraq. He survives an attack and believes it was thanks to a photo of a woman he was carrying. Logan sets out to find the woman, Beth (Taylor Schilling, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1), but she does not understand why a strange man appears on her doorstep.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 21% (bad)
Player Affinity Score: N/A

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Zac and Taylor's Amazing Chemistry

Amazon Price: $16.99 (DVD), $22.99 (Blu-ray), $24.96 (3D Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Think Like A Man (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Tim Story
Written by Keith Merryman, David A. Newman (screenplay), Steve Harvey (book)
Starring: Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Regina, Kevin Hart, Terrence J, Taraji P. Henson, Romany Malco, Gabrielle Union

What’s the Deal?
From the director who helped ruin the Fantastic Four, Tim Story, is this adaptation of Steve Harvey's popular non-fiction book, Think Like A Man. Taking a very meta approach, four female friends discover Harvey’s book and use the advice in it to start falling into line. But when the men find out what the women are doing, the war between the genders in on.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 54% (average)
Player Affinity Score: 3.5/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $16.99 (DVD), $19.96 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Monsieur Lazhar (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Philippe Falardeau
Written by Philippe Falardeau (screenplay), Évelyne de la Chenelière (story)
Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart, Jules Philip

What’s the Deal?
Monsieur Lazhar is a critically praised French-Canadian movie nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won Best Canadian Film prize at the Toronto Film Festival. Mohamed Fellag plays Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant hired to replace a popular grade school teacher who committed suicide. As Lazhar helps the students overcome their grief, he has to conquer his own personal demons.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 97% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: N/A

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: From stage to screen; Big talk interview with Philippe Falardeau; Alice and Simon audition tapes; Bachir''s story ; Alice''s report

Amazon Price: $24.99 (DVD), $34.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): Content: 4 stars, Video 4.5 stars, Audio 4 stars, Extras 3 stars, Replay 3.5 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended.



The Moth Diaries (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Mary Harron
Written by Mary Harron (screenplay), Rachel Klein (novel)
Starring: Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon, Scott Speedman

What’s the Deal?
From the director of American Psycho, Mary Harron, is her critically derided adaptation of Rachel Klein’s gothic novel, The Moth Diaries. In an exclusive boarding school for girls, two friends Rebecca (Sarah Bolger, The Tudors) and Lucy (Sarah Gadon, A Dangerous Method), are divided by the arrival of a new student, Ernessa (Lily Cole, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus). But does Ernessa have her own dark secret?

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 15% (awful)
Player Affinity Score: N/A

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Behind the Scenes; Video Diaries; Featurette; Trailer

Amazon Price: $19.99 (DVD), $24.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 1.5 stars, Video 3.5 stars, Audio 3 stars, Extras 2 stars, Replay 1.5 stars (out of 5). Skip It.



Lovely Molly (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Eduardo Sánchez
Written by Eduardo Sánchez, Jamie Nash
Starring: Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden

What’s the Deal?
Eduardo Sánchez has come a long way since he directed The Blair Witch Project — in the wrong direction. Lovely Molly is the latest horror movie by Sánchez, this time focusing on a newly married couple, Molly and Tim (Gretchen Lodge and Johnny Lewis) who move into Molly’s childhood home. But because of Tim’s job as a truck driver, Molly is left alone in the house with her childhood memories, her former heroin addiction and a evil supernatural force wanting her.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 42% (poor)
Player Affinity Score: 3.0/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Path To Madness; Haunted Past; Demonic Forces; Is It Real; Theatrical Trailer; Optional English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired

Amazon Price: $24.99 (DVD), $24.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 3.5 stars, Video 3 stars, Audio 2.5 stars, Extras 3 stars, Replay 2.5 stars (out of 5). Recommended.



Apartment 143 (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Carles Torrens
Written by Rodrigo Cortés
Starring: Kai Lennox, Gia Mantegna, Michael O'Keefe

What’s the Deal?
Apartment 143 is the other supernatural horror movie out this week as a group of parapsychologists are asked to investigate the strange goings on in an apartment since the loss of the wife and mother of a family.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): N/A
Player Affinity Score: N/A

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Closed Caption; Deleted Scenes; HDNet: A Look At Apartment 143; Theatrical Trailer

Amazon Price: $14.99 (DVD), $19.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Quadrophenia (1979) (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Franc Roddam
Written by Dave Humphries, Franc Roddam, Martin Stellman, Pete Townshend
Starring: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Phillip Davis, Leslie Ash

What’s the Deal?
Quadrophenia is a classic piece of British cinema being re-released by the Criterion Collection. Based on the conflicts between the Mods and the Rockers in the late '50s and early '60s.

Quadrophenia focuses on Jimmy (Phil Daniels, Scum), a teenage Mod who wants to fight against the conformity of society as well as Rockers in the seaside town of Brighton. The Who famously supplied a fantastic soundtrack for the movie.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 100% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.0/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: New high-definition digital restoration of the uncut version; New audio commentary featuring director Franc Roddam and Tufano; Interview with Bill Curbishley, the film's coproducer and the Who's co manager; New interview with the Who's sound engineer, Bob Pridden; On-set and archival footage; Behind-the-scenes photographs; Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Nick James

Amazon Price: $24.99 (DVD), $27.86 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Lonesome (1928) (DVD and Blu-ray)

Directed by Pál Fejös
Written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. (screenplay), Mann Page (story)
Starring: Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness

What’s the Deal?
The other movie to be re-released by the Criterion Collection is the 1928 movie Lonesome. Barbara Kent and Glenn Tryon star as two lonesome people who meet one Saturday at Coney Island and fall for each other immediately, even though they do not know each other’s name.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): N/A
Player Affinity Score: N/A

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: New digital restoration; Audio commentary featuring film historian Richard Koszarski; The Last Performance, director Paul Fejos's 1929 silent starring Conrad Veidt; Reconstructed sound version of Broadway, Fejos's 1929 musical; Fejos Memorial, a 1963 visual essay produced by Paul Falkenberg; Audio excerpts about Broadway from an interview with cinematographer Hal Mohr; Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Phillip Lopate

Amazon Price: $28.83 (DVD), $27.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Jurassic Park (1993) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by David Koepp, Michael Crichton (screenplay), Michael Crichton (novel)
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Ariana Richards, Joseph Mazzello

What’s the Deal?
Based on Michael Crichton’s popular novel, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Jurassic Park was a special effects extravaganza, filled with groundbreaking CGI and often seen as one of many classics made by Spielberg.

John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is a successful CEO who invests money into cloning dinosaurs and plans to open a theme park so the world can see the prehistoric as they were before they became extinct. Hammond invites a group of experts to inspect the park, but of course an island filled with dinosaurs and lacking security means something is bound to go wrong.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 90% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 9.0/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $14.98 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



The Birds (1963) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Evan Hunter (screenplay), Daphne du Maurier (novel)
Starring: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren

What’s the Deal?
The Birds is a supernatural horror movie from Alfred Hitchcock, based on a novella by Daphne du Maurier. Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a socialite who goes with her lawyer (Rod Taylor) to spend the weekend in Bodega Bay in Northern California with his mother and sister. But their weekend turns into a nightmare when birds start to attack.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 95% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.5/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: All about The Birds: An Original Documentary; Storyboard Sequence & Newsreel; A Deleted Scene and the Original Ending; Tippi Hedren's Screen Test; The Birds is Coming Universal International Newsreel

Amazon Price: $12.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Atonement (2007) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Joe Wright
Written by Christopher Hampton (screenplay), Ian McEwan (novel)
Starring: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai

What’s the Deal?
Joe Wright and Keira Knightley are set to reunite in the awards-contending movie Anna Karenina out this November, so it is a great time for Universal to rerelease Atonement.

In 1935 in an English country estate, a romance between a servant’s son, Robbie (James McAvoy) and an aristocrat, Celia (Knightley), is destroyed after a series of misunderstandings leads to Celia's younger sister, Briony (Saoirse Ronan in an Oscar nominated role) accusing Robbie of rape. As World War II starts, Robbie and Celia have a chance to reunite as an older Briony (Romola Garai, Amazing Grace) suffers from guilt.

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 83% (very good)
Player Affinity Score: 8.0/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Joe Wright; The Making of Atonement; Novel to the Screen Feature; Commentary with Director Joe Wright

Amazon Price: $14.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



Airport (1970) (Blu-ray)

Directed by George Seaton
Written by George Seaton (screenplay), Arthur Hailey (novel)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin

What’s the Deal?
Even though Airport only has a 6.5/10 rating on IMDB and more negative modern reviews, it is seen as a classic example of the '70s disaster genre and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including a win for Best Supporting Actress for Helen Hayes. Set in the fictional Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport manager Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster) struggles to keep his airport open during a snowstorm as a suicide bomber (Van Heflin) plans to blow up a plane, an elderly woman (Hayes) attempts to sneak on a plane, and a married pilot (Dean Martin) has an affair with one of his stewardess (Jacqueline Bisset).

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 79% (very good)
Player Affinity Score: N/A

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $14.98 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A



The following are several other rereleases out this week that have already been covered in some form on previous DISCussions.


The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition (2001) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, (screenplay), J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Sean Bean, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 92% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 9.4/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $23.86 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A


The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition (2002) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, Peter Jackson, (screenplay), J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 96% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 9.3/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $23.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A


The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition (2003) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, (screenplay), J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Cate Blanchett

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 94% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 9.5/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: N/A

Amazon Price: $23.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A


Scarface (1983) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Brian De Palma
Written by Oliver Stone
Starring: Al Pacino

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 83% (very good)
Player Affinity Score: 9.0/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Original documentary about the making of "Scaface" featuring new interviews with director Brian De Palma producer Martin Bregman, actor Al Pacino, writer 'Oliver Stone' , and cinematographer John A. Alonzo; Outtakes; Production photographs

Amazon Price: $13.72 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Michel Gondry
Written by Charlie Kaufman (screenplay), Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Pierre Bismuth (story)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 93% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.3/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Making-of featurette; A conversation with Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry; Deleted scenes; Lacuna infomercial; Music video

Amazon Price: $14.99 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A


Out of Africa (1985) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Sydney Pollock
Written by Kurt Luedtke (screenplay), Karen Blixen (book)
Starring: Robert Radford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 61% (good)
Player Affinity Score: 7.0/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Song of Africa An Original Documentary; Universal Weblinks; Parental Lock

Amazon Price: $17.98 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A


Harvey (1950) (Blu-ray)

Directed by Henry Koster
Written by Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake

Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 83% (very good)
Player Affinity Score: 8.0/10

DISC DETAILS

DVD Special Features: Parental Lock; Film highlights; Jimmy Stewart introduction

Amazon Price: $24.28 (Blu-ray)

Score (DVDTalk.com): Content: 4.5 stars, Video 4.5 stars, Audio 4 stars, Extras 1.5 stars, Replay 3.5 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended.