Movie Reviews
The D Train Blu-ray review
Dan Landsman gets to the meeting early, carrying boxes of donuts and setting out the deli platter just so. He checks each phone and awaits the rest of the alumni committe...
The Green Inferno Blu-ray review
Most college students wouldn’t mind catching a few extra hours of sleep on a Sunday morning/afternoon. If awoken by a protest out on the quad, some might take to hurlin...
Hardcore Henry Blu-ray Review
Henry awakes in a tub of water. He looks around his surroundings, unsure where he is or who the woman speaking to him is. She, a nurse, asks if he knows how he got there,...
Ugetsu Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
It is 16th-century Japan, a time of civil war. Attacks on small villages are unpredictable and inevitable. In one such village lives a small group of families, similar to...
Rio Movie Review
I have to admit: I whistled when the screen lit up with a huge, colorful 3-D jungle. A catchy samba beat kicked in as candy-colored birds wheeled just in front of my ey...
The Conspirator (starring James McAvoy)
Even in the best of times, historical or period pictures are a tough sell. Despite the fact that the overwhelmingly popular reason people will give you for wanting to g...
The Tourist (Blu-ray)
It reads like a checklist of all the classic ingredients: a hapless but good-looking hero. A beautiful girl. An exotic locale. Sinister gangsters. Interpol. Tra...
Something Borrowed
The romantic comedy: it’s been with us almost as long as movies have, in a thousand flavors and variations, from the sweet and humane farce of Chaplin’s CITY ...
Hereafter (Blu-ray)
If there’s a motor that drives human behavior outside of our desires for survival, comfort and reproduction, our fear of and fascination with the mystery of death i...
Kung Fu Panda 2
Big-budget sequels to popular original movies are like the children of successful parents – all too often they end up as victims of everyone else’s overbearing ex...