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Posts Tagged ‘blu-ray review’
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
When he wants to be, John Travolta can be a very charming and likeable guy. His charisma was never more evident than during a string of movies in the mid 90’s that included GET SHORTY, BROKEN ARROW, PHENOMENON and MICHAEL. But fans of Travolta point to PHENOMENON as the example of just how great Travolta [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Forest Whitaker, john travolta, Jon Turteltaub, kyra sedgwick, movie review, phenomenon
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Sunday, August 12th, 2012
John Cusack stars as Rob, a man-child making his way through life going from one failed relationship to another, each time obsessed with the woman that broke his heart. We pick up with Rob right in the middle of his current breakup with Laura (Iben Hjejle). He’s recounting his top five breakups, providing the segway [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, catherine zeta-jones, high fidelity, Jack Black, John Cusack, movie review, Stephen Frears
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
Generation X has been slowly evolving the romantic comedy for over a decade now. Teen angst films from the ‘80s like PRETTY IN PINK and SAY ANYTHING still hold up as classics, along with the moody, quick witted and confused by sex character laden “rom-coms” from the ‘90s like REALITY BITES and AS GOOD AS [...]
Tags: Adam Scott, blu-ray review, friends with kids, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, movie review
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
TREASURE PLANET hit movie theaters in 2002. It was an interesting time for Disney with the age of animated musicals having run its course and the rise of the Pixar division in a pop culture explosion. About a decade before, Disney developed an adventure film of Robert Louis Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND. Directors Ron Clements and [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson, John Musker, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, movie review, Ron Clements, treasure planet
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Friday, August 3rd, 2012
A few rants and drunken outbursts ago, GET THE GRINGO would have been released in theaters and probably would have done pretty well. But unfortunately, Mel Gibson hasn’t learned to keep his angry rants clear of recording devices and so we’re stuck catching his latest film, GET THE GRINGO, on a straight to VOD/Blu-ray release. [...]
Tags: adrian grunberg, blu-ray review, Get the Gringo, Kevin Hernandez, mel gibson, movie review, Peter Stormare
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
After sitting in an editing room for nearly two years, Kenneth Lonergan’s MARGARET was eventually released by Fox in the fall of 2011 to very little fanfare. But for the critics who did see it during its limited theatrical run, it became one of the most talked about movies of the year. We’ve all been [...]
Tags: Anna Paquin, blu-ray review, Kenneth Lonergan, margaret, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon, movie review
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
It may seem odd to some that Kevin Costner chose to star in a mini-series show on the History channel, but after sitting down to absorb HATFIELDS & MCCOYS, I can’t think of a more appropriate place to show it, even though it was good enough for HBO, Showtime or any other network for that [...]
Tags: bill paxton, blu-ray review, hatfields and mccoys, kevin costner, Kevin Reynolds, Matt Barr, movie review
Posted in Blu-Ray Reviews, Reviews |
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Words can be very hurtful, but for some all it takes is a simple abbreviation to send a terrifying chill straight to their bones. If you happen to be a criminal, then the letters “FBI” or “DEA” are probably your least favorite in the alphabet. For a pro athlete, the trio of “A,” “C,” and [...]
Tags: Blu-ray News, blu-ray review, Brandon Nutt, Craig Fairbrass, movie review, randy couture, Vinny Jones
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Extracting intriguing plot points from the framework of a pro sport’s story is not exactly asking the impossible. Those kinds of tales pretty much write their own first drafts and the most difficult portion of filming is trying to mirror the authenticity of the real-life action in the game. However, when the game gets smaller, [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Martin Scorsese, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, movie review, paul newman, the color of money, Tom Cruise
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
Every once in a while a movie just flat out surprises you. It may be one that you heard about in passing, or something that you just checked out because of the star… With the number of films released each year growing, you would hope that the chance to find these gems would increase. Sadly, [...]
Tags: Amr Waked, Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, Lasse Hallstrom, movie reviews, salmon fishing in the yemen
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
I’m pretty sure everyone has a handful of films that they associate with their childhood that hold a special place in their heart whether they were bad films or not. Oddly enough, SISTER ACT is one of those films for me. This film seemed to be one of those movies my mother, sister and I [...]
Tags: Bill Duke, blu-ray review, Emile Ardolino, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith, movie review, sister act, Whoopi Goldberg
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Sunday, July 15th, 2012
When looking back on Tom Cruise’s early films, many people will point to RISKY BUSINESS, TOP GUN or even THE COLOR OF MONEY as indications that Cruise was going to become one of the biggest international superstars of all time. For me, however, COCKTAIL is proof of his superstardom, not because the movie is good, [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, movie review, Roger Donaldson, Tom Cruise
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
You’re taking a gamble when you cast Madonna as your lead in a big budget musical, but for director Anthony Parker’s EVITA, Madonna wasn’t really the problem. EVITA had the odds stacked against it from the beginning and although it has a couple of catchy musical numbers, the overall film failed to capture the grandness [...]
Tags: Alan Parker, Antonio Banderas, blu-ray review, Evita, Jonathan Pryce, Madonna, movie review
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
The AMERICAN PIE films are an odd series. When the first film hit theaters in 1999, I felt it was severely overrated, even though I was technically the perfect age for their targeted audience. Two years later, the first sequel came out and I thought it was hilarious. AMERICAN WEDDING and several atrocious straight to [...]
Tags: Alyson Hannigan, blu-ray review, Hayden Schlossberg, Jason Biggs, Jon Hurwitz, movie review, Seann William Scott
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
FX’s ‘Wilfred’ is nothing if not original. Well, at least the original Australian version was original, but to American audiences, ‘Wilfred’ is different from anything we’ve seen. Elijah Wood plays Ryan, a depressed lawyer that tries to kill himself with sleeping pills. When his plan doesn’t turn out as he hoped, he discovers a new [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Elijah Wood, Fiona Gubelmann, Jason Gann, Randall Einhorn
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Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Many a time in my life I have thought that as a moviegoer I was born in the wrong decade. Though I love all the technology the 21st century has contributed to film, there was something special about the films in the 20′s, 30′s and 40′s and the people who watched them. Back then going [...]
Tags: Bérénice Bejo, blu-ray review, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Michel Hazanavicius, movie review
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
SPIDER-MAN 2 has all of the elements that fans would expect from the second installment of a well-known superhero adventure: a girl he can’t love, a villain he can’t defeat, a personal choice he can’t make and the promise of a third installment that the viewing audience can’t ignore. Although the sequel moves at a [...]
Tags: Alfred Molina, blu-ray review, kirsten dunst, movie review, sam raimi, spider-man, Tobey Maguire
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
When I was in fifth grade, my class had to fill out note cards answering questions about ourselves that would be posted in the hallway. One of the questions was “what do you want to be when you grow up?” and my answer was “a teenage cop”. Yes, I was a huge fan of ’21 [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Channing Tatum, Chris Miller, Ice Cube, Jonah Hill, movie review, Phil Lord
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Friday, June 22nd, 2012
In 2006, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor directed the Jason Statham action film CRANK. It wasn’t a good film by any means, but they directed it in a way that was spastic and fast, which worked because that style fit well within the scope of the film. A few flops later, Neveldine and Taylor were [...]
Tags: 3d blu-ray review, blu-ray review, Brian Taylor, Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba, Mark Neveldine, movie review, Nicolas Cage
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
An astute viewer of A PERFECT WORLD when it hit theaters in 1993 would have correctly predicted that Clint Eastwood was going to receive multiple Oscar nominations for his directing in the future. I was a fan of the film when it first came out, but had not seen it since its initial release. A [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Clint Eastwood, kevin costner, Laura Dern, movie review
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY is based on the popular children’s novel “The Borrowers” by Mary Norton, which spawned several sequels, making it one of the most beloved children’s fantasy series in the world. The series has inspired several film and TV adaptations, none of which have proven to be very memorable. So that left [...]
Tags: Amy Poehler, blu-ray review, Bridgit Mendler, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, The Secret World of Arrietty, Will Arnett
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The film CAMELOT originated from the massive success of a Broadway show penned by partners Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Jack Warner (an actual Warner Brother) was so smitten with the story and how the Kennedys affectionately adopted the “Camelot” name to represent their administration, that he spared no expense to secure the rights [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, franco nero, Joshua Logan, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) has had a rough six months. After suffering through a divorce and losing her swell job as a lingerie manager at the department store, she decides to get a job at her cousin’s bail-bond business as a bounty hunter. Since she’s obviously qualified for such a job (please note the sarcasm), [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Debbie Reynolds, Jason O’Mara, Julie Anne Robinson, Katherine Heigl, movie review
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Much like the fourth film of another famous franchise in LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, the fourth installment of the Underworld franchise is fun on the surface, but the heart and charm you liked in the original has been replaced with a series of mindless action stunts that although entertaining, don’t do much to further [...]
Tags: Bjorn Stein, blu-ray review, India Eisley, Kate Beckinsale, Mans Marlind, Michael Ealy
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
DARK TIDE follows Kate Mathieson (Halle Berry), a top marine biologist who has been studying sharks for over a decade. She’s known in some circles as the “shark whisperer” and can swim freely with them without harm. However, after one of her diving teammates gets mauled by a great white, Kate backs off for several [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Halle Berry, John Stockwell, movie review, Olivier Martinez, Ralph Brown
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Movies that touch on various emotions in a viewer seems to be a rare thing these days. As much as I love watching movies, I find many of them to be average or slightly below and it makes me appreciate when I watch a film that touches on several different feelings. For whatever reason, Cameron [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Cameron Crowe, Matt Damon, movie review, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
At first glance of the Blu-ray cover of KATE & LEOPOLD, audiences could easily be tricked into thinking they were about to take an adventure of epic proportions down an romantic comedy road. “If they lived in the same century, they’d be perfect for each other.” What a great tag line! This movie has [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Hugh Jackman, James Mangold, Liev Shreiber, Meg Ryan, movie review
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
The year was 1991. Madonna had just finished her fourth studio album. She was provocative, newsworthy and in her prime. Why not make a documentary exposing the details of the Material Girl’s first concert series around the world? You can be nervous or you can be excited about the intimate details you will discover about [...]
Tags: Alek Keshishian, blu-ray review, Donna DeLory, Madonna, Mark Aldo Miceli, movie review, Niki Harris
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
A fun, relaxing weekend on a lake in Louisiana turns deadly for a group of seven college students in SHARK NIGHT. When one of the gang is suddenly attacked by a shark, the remaining friends must search for a way to save him and themselves while stranded on an island with enemies lurking above and [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, blu-ray review, David R. Ellis, Dustin Milligan, Joel David Moore, movie review, Sara Paxton
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Sunday, December 25th, 2011
TANNER HALL is a coming of age story revolving around four young ladies in their senior year at a quaint New England boarding school. The trio of best friends Fernanda (Rooney Mara), Kate (Brie Larson) and Lucasta (Amy Ferguson) is soon compromised when new student Victoria (Georgia King) enrolls at their school. Always starving for [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Brie Larson, Francesca Gregorini, Georgia King, movie review, movie reviews, Rooney Mara, Tatiana Von Furstenberg
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
On paper, there’s not much to like about the 2011 version of FRIGHT NIGHT. For starters, it’s a remake of a cheesy 80′s movie that, although loved by a few, wasn’t that great to begin with. Then there’s the giant problem of yet another take on vampires, which have been so overdone in the past [...]
Tags: Anton Yelchin, Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Colin Farrell, Craig Gillespie, Imogen Poots, movie review, movie reviews
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
I know what you’re thinking. It’s blasphemous for me to give a movie with both Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston a four out of 10. But I had to do it. All I kept thinking through the entire two and a half epic western was, “THE BIG COUNTRY is a poor man’s GIANT.” There. I [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Caroll Baker, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, movie review, William Wyler
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
THE RIVER WHY is a coming of age story set on the banks of a river in Oregon. Augustine, or “just Gus,” (Zach Gilford) lives in the shadows of his famous fisherman father (William Hurt). He never fit in at school, he’s an outcast in the community and after a huge fight with his parents, [...]
Tags: Amber Heard, Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Matthew Leutwyler, movie review, William Hurt, Zach Gilford
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Foreign films are a dicey venture in the United States. While some capture the hearts and minds of viewers (like CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) they are just as likely to fail for one simple reason – subtitles. I worked for a few years in a video rental store, and nothing turns away the “joe-average movie [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Keaobaka Makanyane, Khomotso Manyaka, Lerato Mvelase, movie review, Oliver Schmitz
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
“Who is John Galt?” This statement is at the core of the story and movie ATLAS SHRUGGED, and in the movie is a common hypothetical idiom meaning essentially – don’t ask questions that have no answer. To some that means to give up. To others it means to question the status quo. Throughout the movie [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Edi Gathegi, Grant Bowler, movie review, Paul Johannson, Taylor Schilling
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
When I originally heard about OUR IDIOT BROTHER I was tentative. The trailer really didn’t excite me but my love for Paul Rudd (ANCHORMAN, I LOVE YOU MAN) kept my interest. The Blu-ray release brought back the feelings of dread, but I am happy to say that OUR IDIOT BROTHER holds its own in the [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Elizabeth Banks, Jesse Peretz, movie review, Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
We live in an age of cinematic remakes; while there are new ideas aplenty Hollywood seems stuck on regurgitating old stories. This doesn’t bother me at all when the movie has something new to offer to the world. When you watch CONAN THE BARBARIAN it is clear that they intended to do just that, but [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, blu-ray review, Jason Momoa, Marcus Nispel, movie review, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Click the title below to read the individual reviews of the films: JURASSIC PARK THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK JURASSIC PARK III In 1993 a movie was released that would change the special effects landscape forever. It was a movie “65 million years in the making,” a brilliant tag-line and the start to a cultural [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, Jeff Goldblum, Joe Johnston, Laura Dern, movie review, sam neill, steven spielberg
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Sunday, November 27th, 2011
The tagline for the original Jurassic Park was “An adventure 65 million years in the making.” The incredible success of the film (spending more than 18 weeks as the top box office earner) lends credibility to this claim. Watching the recently released Blu-rays of JURASSIC PARK brought back all of the feelings that I had [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, blu-ray reviews, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, movie review, movie reviews, sam neill, steven spielberg
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
GIA is the tragic true story of America’s first super model Gia Marie Carangi. After growing up in a broken home, Gia (Angelina Jolie) is discovered outside of a night club in Philadelphia when she was only 17-years old. Practically over night, she moved to New York City to pursue a career with top agent [...]
Tags: angelina jolie, blu-ray review, blu-ray reviews, Elizabeth Mitchell, Faye Dunaway, Michael Cristofer, movie review, movie reviews
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
When you look at great years in the history of cinema, you would have a hard time arguing that there was a better year for film than 1974. This is the year that saw the release of what many consider to be the finest movie ever made, Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER: PART II. But [...]
Tags: Allen Garfield, blu-ray review, blu-ray reviews, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, movie review, movie reviews
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
There are a lot of movies that I remember fondly from my childhood. Most I’ve continued to enjoy as I grew older, and hope to share with my child as he grows older. But there are some the disappear into the ether, existing only in memory until someone brings them up in conversation or you [...]
Tags: blu-ray review, blu-ray reviews, Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Hal Needham, movie review, movie reviews, Roger Moore
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Grace (Selena Gomez) has just graduated from high school and is about to embark on a week-long vacation with her best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) and her step-sister Meg. The trio are headed across the pond to check “visit Paris” off of the recent graduate’s bucket list. Her dream trip turns out to be spearheaded [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, blu-ray review, blu-ray reviews, Katie Cassidy, Leighton Meester, movie review, movie reviews, selena gomez, Thomas Bezucha
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Any review or mention of the 1994 film THE CROW usually starts and ends with the tragic death of Brandon Lee. After growing up in his father Bruce Lee’s shadow, Brandon had finally made the leap from B-movie fare like SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO and RAPID FIRE to what was sure to be his star [...]
Tags: Alex Proyas, blu-ray review, blu-ray reviews, Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, movie review, movie reviews
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
One of my favorite things about movies is being taken to a world that I have never experienced. Lots of movies do this by subtly exposing you to something you didn’t know was compelling, like UP IN THE AIR or THE HURT LOCKER. Others take us to worlds that we don’t know existed, and then [...]
Tags: Alex Esmail, blu-ray review, blu-ray reviews, Jodie Whittaker, joe cornish, John Boyega, movie review, movie reviews
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