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Posts Tagged ‘blu-ray review’
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Some films just sneak up on you. You don’t expect much, but then you are pleasantly surprised by the results. THE DETAILS is one such case. I had not heard of this picture before watching it. The cast though was impressive, so it definitely piqued my curiosity. If you are looking for a television show [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Elizabeth Banks, jacob aaron estes, Laura Linney, movie review, Tobey Maguire
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Monday, February 4th, 2013
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING is the fourth official installment in the franchise, after 1992’s original, 1999’s UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: THE RETURN and 2009’s UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION. (Two direct-to-video sequels, released in the late ‘90s, aren’t officially apart of the series.) DAY OF RECKONING, like its predecessors, stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Luc Deveraux, a [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, dolph lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Hyams, movie review, Scott Adkins, universal soldier: day of reckoning
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Family entertainment has come a long way since the “Leave it to Beaver” era. Even in our jaded, violence and sex saturated, desensitized society, the family film is still one of the biggest cash cows Hollywood has in its repertoire due to the everlasting and unquenchable thirst kids have for entertainment. And to their credit, [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, David Bowers, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, movies, Peyton List, Steve Zahn, Zachary Gordon
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Every movie aficionado has been in this situation before. You’re looking for something new to watch on either cable, pay per view, Netfilx, etc., and you come across a title whose trailers and commercial ads bring you zero recall. You immediately profile it as a “direct to video” release, but further research reveals that it [...]
Tags: Aleksandr Dulerayn, blu-ray review, branded, Ed Stoppard, Jamie Bradshaw, jeffrey tambor, Leelee Sobieski, movie review
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Monday, January 14th, 2013
When people think of comic book films, the first images to fly through their heads are usually super powered and colorful costume clad characters that regularly bombard their lives through the overuse of commercialization. However many characters that would not even be found on a milk carton in the United States, have risen to “Man [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, dredd, Karl Urban, Lena Headey, movie review, Olivia Thirlby, Pete Travis
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Sunday, January 13th, 2013
The easiest and most cliché way to describe HBO’s ‘Girls’ is that it’s a younger, more realistic version of another HBO series, ‘Sex and the City’. That might be a little insulting to ‘Girls’, but the similarities run rampant throughout and series creator Lena Dunham even acknowledges the fact when one of the younger characters [...]
Tags: Adam Driver, Allison Williams, blu-ray review, girls, Judd Apatow, lena dunham, movie review
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
After divorcing from her husband, overbearing Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) and her high school aged daughter, Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence), move to a new neighborhood to start fresh. It’s a beautiful home, tucked away from all of their problems. And they were able to get it cheap, too. See, four years earlier, a teenage girl killed her [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Elisabeth Shue, House At The End Of The Street, Jennifer Lawrence, John Stockwell, Max Thieriot, movie review
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
The biggest news story of 2011 was the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, which left the al-Qaeda leader and five others dead. It was bound to inspire numerous dramatizations. Aside from the New York Times bestseller No Easy Day and the Oscar-nominated ZERO DARK THIRTY (click the link to read our review), there is [...]
Tags: Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner, Anson Mount, blu-ray review, Cam Gigandet, John Stockwell, movie review, seal team six
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
HBO’s ‘Eastbound and Down’ is like an SNL skit that goes on too long. It’s funny, and has humorous characters, but there’s only so much you can do with the idea of a white trash, self centered baseball player that’s trying to get back to the big leagues. Every episode has about two minutes of [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Danny McBride, eastbound and down, Jody Hill, movie review, Steve Little, will ferrell
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
If you were told you’re going to be watching an early film comedy, written by Steven Brill and Judd Apatow and featuring Ben Stiller, Alan Covert, Tim Blake Nelson and a few of the Mighty Ducks, you would think you might be discovering a hidden gem. I know I did when I put HEAVY WEIGHTS [...]
Tags: Aaron Schwartz, ben stiller, blu-ray review, heavy weights, movie review, steven brill, Tom McGowan
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Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Imagine (figuratively, of course) that someone had a giant ball of emotion and sappiness and was cramming it unwillingly down your throat for 105 minutes without ever giving you a chance to catch your breath. That’s what it’s like watching Disney’s THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN. The film is so obsessed with trying to [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, CJ Adams, Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, movie review, Peter Hedges, the odd life of timothy green
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Friday, December 14th, 2012
One of my pet peeves with some movie critics is when they spend the whole review comparing a sequel to the original or comparing the movie to a book. Although everything has to be considered, I’ve always been under the belief that movies should be judged by themselves, without the weight of their predecessors, or [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Edward Norton, Jeremy Renner, movie review, Rachel Weisz, The Bourne Legacy, Tony Gilroy
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
When I discuss the brilliance of Pixar, the movie I most often use as reference is UP. It’s not the best Pixar film (that honor goes to WALL-E) and it’s not even the funniest (FINDING NEMO), but for my money, it’s one of the most creative, well executed animated films ever made. You realize this [...]
Tags: 3d, blu-ray review, Bob Peterson, Ed Asner, John Ratzenberger, Jordan Nagai, movie review, Pete Docter, up
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
I typically associate Seth MacFarlane with Family Guy or American Dad, neither of which I’m a fan of. So I had no interest when it was announced he would be directing a live action comedy that he also wrote. But then a few hilarious trailers came out and I thought that maybe TED would be [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Joel McHale, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, movie review, seth macfarlane, Ted
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
It’s that time of year again, when kids and adults alike start to mentally figure out whether they’ve been nice or naughty for the past twelve months. If you’ve been nice, you might get that new fire truck toy or a top-of-the-line grill or a new mistress. If you’ve been naughty, well…you might get tied [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Donal Logue, Jaime King, Malcolm McDowell, movie review, silent night, Steven C. Miller
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Thursday, December 6th, 2012
When the world was introduced to Heath Ledger’s Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT, it was hard to imagine that Batman would ever have to face a villain as sinister and dedicated to his cause. Then this past year audiences became familiar with Bane (Tom Hardy), a truly bone-chilling bad guy that gave Batman the physical [...]
Tags: Anne Hathaway, blu-ray review, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, movie review, The Dark Knight Rises, tom hardy
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Friday, November 30th, 2012
If you followed MEN IN BLACK 3 through the production process, then you know that the entire film was plagued with problems from the very beginning. Rushed into filming, the filmmakers actually started without a completed script (not a good sign), then took a hiatus when they could resolve the issues (another bad sign), then [...]
Tags: 3d, Barry Sonnenfeld, blu-ray review, Josh Brolin, Men in Black 3, movie review, tommy lee jones, Will Smith
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
It’s hard to go wrong with The Muppets, even during their dark ages in the 90’s. Kermit, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and the rest of our favorite characters have personalities and charms that come through no matter what situation they’re in. But things get a little wonky when The Muppets are playing other characters and things [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Brian Henson, Dave Goelz, Michael Caine, movie review, muppets christmas carol, Steve Whitmire
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Fairy tales can be a very poignant method for delivering a strong life lesson to a child. They can be magical, fantastical, romantic and wise, but very seldom are they cool. However there is one, and only one that would make both of Fonzie’s thumbs point due north. Explain further you say…as you wish. It [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, movie review, Rob Reiner, Robin Wright, the princess bride
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” That’s the mantra of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a Wall Street power player with money on his mind and spilling all over. He has the best suits. He has the newest (and biggest) cell phone. He has the nicest art in his office. He has the [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, charlie sheen, Martin Sheen, michael douglas, movie review, Oliver Stone, wall street
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Although I complain about it, I’m sometimes thankful that my wife makes me watch ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ every year. Though the show can be tough to watch, I’ve gained an appreciation of dance and have learned how moving and beautiful a well-choreographed dance can be. And maybe because of that, I find [...]
Tags: 3d, blu-ray review, Kathryn McCormick, movie review, Peter Gallagher, Ryan Guzman, Scott Speer, Step Up Revolution
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
“All right, Mr. Demille…I’m ready for my close up.” Even the most casual of movie fan is familiar with this classic quote, even if they’re not sure which film it came from. The film is SUNSET BOULEVARD and its arrival on Blu-ray is a most welcome present for this holiday season. The film tells the [...]
Tags: Billy Wilder, blu-ray review, Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson, movie review, sunset boulevard, William Holden
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
San Dimas in 2688 is a better time, a better place–the dirt is clean, mini-golf scores are down and there is a waterpark on every corner. And it’ll stay a paradise if best bodacious buds and bandmates Bill (Alex Winter, forever Bill and proud of it) and Ted (Keanu Reeves, forever labeled a bimbo because [...]
Tags: Alex Winter, bill & ted's excellent adventure, blu-ray review, George Carlin, Keanu Reeves, movie review, Stephen Herek
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Saturday, November 17th, 2012
Home video gives movies a second chance at success. ARTHUR CHRISTMAS was considered a box office disappointment when it came out. That really is a shame because this is a delightful family film that is sure to please people of all ages. It’s a clever tale about the inner workings of the North Pole, Santa [...]
Tags: arthur christmas, Bill Nighy, blu-ray review, Hugh Laurie, James McAvoy, movie review, Sarah Smith
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Friday, November 16th, 2012
From the very beginning, BRAVE felt like a movie that just didn’t know what it wanted to be. Is it a coming of age action movie? Is it a heartwarming story about a daughter learning to appreciate her mother? Is it a historical adventure? Is it a slapstick comedy for younger audiences? Actually, it’s a [...]
Tags: 3d, Billy Connolly, blu-ray review, brave, Brenda Chapman, Emma Thompson, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Andrews, movie review
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
The man on the therapist couch, clutching a stuffed bear, is Calvin Weir-Fields. He had a hit novel at 19, but has had nothing but writer’s block since. Then, when she’s needed most, The Muse–Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan, who also wrote the screenplay)–strikes, and later that night, Calvin (Paul Dano) is hammering away at his [...]
Tags: annette bening, blu-ray review, jonathan dayton, movie review, Paul Dano, ruby sparks, valerie faris, Zoe Kazan
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
In Hany Abu-Assad’s (PARADISE NOW) THE COURIER, Morgan is, well, The Courier, a messenger man known by only that moniker. That’s supposed to make him mysterious. So, too, is his self-description of his profession, “I deliver things.” So does Skip, the 17-year-old driver at Pizza Hut, but that doesn’t make him any more cryptic or [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Hany Abu-Assad, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Josie Ho, mickey rourke, movie review, the courier
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Every year Hollywood has a “sleeper” film – a small project that comes out of nowhere to become a huge hit. In 2002 movie goers were introduced to the Portokalos family courtesy of the romantic comedy MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING. This year, as the film celebrates its 10 Anniversary, it comes to Blu-ray. Toula [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Joel Zwick, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, movie review, my big fat greek wedding, nia vardalos
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
A good horror movie has the ability to find something you’re afraid of (the dark, spiders, ghosts, etc.) and then exploit it. They harness that fear of a particular thing and then build a movie around it, making you uncomfortable and anxious the entire time. But people aren’t just afraid of things, people are also [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Danny DeVito, Kathleen Turner, michael douglas, movie review, sean astin, war of the roses
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
It’s unfair to THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN to compare it to SPIDER-MAN, which came out a mere 10 years earlier, but because of the short timeframe between the films, it’s almost impossible not to. There’s actually a lot about this film that I thought made it superior to the original. The chemistry between Andrew Garfield and [...]
Tags: Andrew Garfield, blu-ray review, Emma Stone, marc webb, movie review, Rhys Ifans, the amazing spider-man
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Sunday, November 4th, 2012
When we left off with ‘Boardwalk Empire’ at the end of its first season, Jimmy (Michael Pitt), Eli (Shea Whigham) and the Commodore (Dabney Coleman) were conspiring to take down Nucky (Steve Buscemi). This set up the entire premise for the second season as their plans started to unfold and Nucky started to feel the [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, boardwalk empire, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Pitt, movie review, Steve Buscemi, Terence Winter
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
A deranged cab driver, the Don of a notorious crime family, an alcoholic boxer, a fake priest, a firefighter, a psycho killer, an abusive husband and stepfather, a good cop, a bad cop, a retired CIA agent and the sworn enemy of Rocky and Bullwinkle is just a small sample of the ever-broadening spectrum of [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Drew Barrymore, everybody's fine, Kate Beckinsale, Kirk Jones, movie review, Robert De Niro
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
BAIT 3D follows Josh (Xavier Samuel), a lifeguard on the coast of Australia who is about to propose to his best friend’s sister, Tina (played by Sharni Vinson of STEP UP 3). Sadly, before Josh has a chance to pop the question, his best friend is attacked and killed by a great white shark in [...]
Tags: 3d, blu-ray review, julian mcmahon, Kimble Rendall, movie review, Sharni Vinson, xavier samuel
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
On the surface, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED is about a reporter and two interns that investigate a guy claiming he can travel through time. But boiling down director Colin Trevorrow’s fourth directorial effort to that simple premise isn’t fair to the film. It’s also a movie about accepting who you are, overcoming your past and believing [...]
Tags: aubrey plaza, blu-ray review, Colin Trevorrow, Jake Johnson, Mark Duplass, movie review, safety not guaranteed
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Monday, October 29th, 2012
When I think of some of the better baseball movies out there, most people don’t think of A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, but they probably should. The film about the first women’s baseball league is a quality sports movie with great characters, great performances and a feel-good story. Distraught that all of their best baseball [...]
Tags: a league of their own, blu-ray review, geena davis, Lori Petty, movie review, penny marshall, Tom Hanks
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
‘Homeland’ is the perfect blend of intensity, drama and mystery that we really haven’t seen on the small screen since ‘Lost’ went off the air. The first season reminds me of an episode of ’24′, which makes sense because two of the writers from that show now run ‘Homeland’. I don’t make that statement to [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, claire danes, damian lewis, homeland, Michael Cuesta, morena baccarin, movie review
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Saturday, October 27th, 2012
I think when Jet Li once proclaimed he was retiring from martial arts movies, FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE was exactly what he was talking about. We now know that Jet Li didn’t retire from martial arts films and this is another in a long line of forgettable films that rely way too heavily on [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, flying swords of dragon gate, Hark Tsui, jet li, Kun Chen, movie review, Xun Zhou
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
Although we’ve seen plenty of movies about female strippers over the years, male stripping seems to have been an overlooked profession for Hollywood. As it turns out, male strippers are a lot like the female strippers we’ve seen in Hollywood in that they’re young, immature, drug-addicted individuals with loose…morals. And that’s really the problem when [...]
Tags: Alex Pettyfer, blu-ray review, Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, movie review, Steven Soderbergh
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
PEOPLE LIKE US is the story of Sam (Chris Pine), a struggling trader that goes back home to settle the estate of his recently deceased father. When there, Sam receives a bag full of money with a note saying he’s supposed to give it to Josh. Sam later learns that Josh is his nephew and [...]
Tags: Alex Kurtzman, blu-ray review, chris pine, Elizabeth Banks, michelle pfeiffer, movie review, People Like Us
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
The Beatles’ MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR TV special in 1967 is a shining example of what happens to people when they get to be too successful. We see this all the time today with athletes, movie stars and musicians, where they reach a point where they’re above good advice and their success means that no matter [...]
Tags: Bernard Knowles, blu-ray review, George Harrison, John Lennon, magical mystery tour, movie review, Paul McCartney
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Don Draper is one of, if not the, coolest characters in the history of television. I’m sure I’ve said something like that before, but as I’m watching the fifth season of Mad Men, I can’t help but be enamored with our favorite ad exec. Over the past five seasons, the show has come a long [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, mad men, Matt Weiner, movie review
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
In 2001, Anne Hathaway broke onto the scene in Disney’s THE PRINCESS DIARIES and in the process became one of those up and coming actresses to watch. A couple years later, she headlined ELLA ENCHANTED another regular girl who turns into a princess, but with a different twist. Though THE PRINCESS DIARIES was a bigger [...]
Tags: Anne Hathaway, blu-ray review, Cary Elwes, Hugh Dancy, movie review, Tommy O’Haver
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
In 1995, Edward Burns burst onto the scene with an independent film called THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN, about three brothers living in Long Island who are in the middle of three very different relationships. Although the movie promised great things from Edward Burns, he failed to live up to the expectations, which perhaps says more about [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Edward Burns, Jack Mulcahy, Michael McGlone, movie review
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
The MADAGASCAR series is kind of the forgotten animated series for Dreamworks Animation, living in the shadows of the critically acclaimed Kung-Fu Panda series and the widely popular Shrek films. Although the first one was enjoyable, the second MADAGASCAR film was almost a series killer. So it was hard to get too excited when MADAGASCAR [...]
Tags: ben stiller, blu-ray review, chris rock, Conrad Vernon, David Schwimmer, Eric Darnell, movie review, Tom McGrath
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Friday, October 5th, 2012
The renowned writer/director of METROPOLITAN and THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO surfaces after a 12 year absence from American film making with the female centric DAMSELS IN DISTRESS. The story revolves around a small college group of socially awkward debutantes who are ironically obsessed with proper behavior and the rules of culture. When the group [...]
Tags: Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, blu-ray review, Greta Gerwig, movie review, Whit Stillman
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