DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Raise your hand if you thought making yet another movie based on a children’s toy was a terrible idea. And keep it up if The Lego Movie’s trailers did nothing to convince you otherwise that a feature-length movie starring those dastardly little plastic land mines would end  ...

“Dead or alive, you’re coming with me.” When first receiving the news of a new Robocop film, I was a bit skeptical. Reasons being that the original was so cheesy, and so “eighties,” shall we say, that a new film seemed an odd venture. However, upon viewing the fresh ...

Proving that he’s not going down without a fight, 61-year-old Liam Neeson returns for another early year no-brainer action flick (something like six films in as many years) in Non-Stop. This time he’s an alcoholic air marshal receiving threatening texts while on board a  ...

Turn the masculinity to eleven!   I must admit, venturing into 300: Rise of an Empire, I wasn’t skeptical per-say, more curious. However, the curiosity prevented the unwelcomed preconceptions of the mystery I was about to partake, and I’m glad it did. Relatively  ...

Blazing with filmmaker Wes Anderson’s usual zippy energy, your stay at The Grand Budapest Hotel will certainly not disappoint. The madcap movie is a wonderful example of Anderson’s eye for detail and his rapier-wit and, while being his newest and freshest comedy, is  ...

Continuum is the best science fiction show currently on television. It is also probably the best Science Fiction show that you aren’t watching. Currently beginning its third season, Continuum is a Canadian-based import starring Rachel Nichols as Kiera Cameron, ...

Disney is not quite ready to drop the whole “pirate” act - at least not yet. The Pirate Fairy – the fifth in a series of Tinker Bell movie adventures and a prequel to Peter Pan – arrives in stores this Tuesday. It’s not as cinematic as what we’ve come to expect from Disney  ...

It ain’t a Christmas party until someone breaks an iPhone. If that’s true, then the couples in The Best Man Holiday had a crazy good time—they even threw in a smashed iPad, to boot. The rowdy revelers were first introduced to audiences back in 1999, in the romantic comedy The Best Man ...

Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla tears into theaters this coming May so why not the tie-ins into stores and shelves, too?! Originally released in 1963 here in the United States, King Kong vs. Godzilla is simply a must-own for any fan of either monster. This co-production between  ...

The classic feel of an afternoon matinee flick fuels the second of Toho's King Kong pictures. King Kong Escapes had a long gestation period and, while different monster villains were proposed (like Frankenstein), it was finally settled that Kong would battle himself  ...

Norm son-of-a-Gunderson! Another re-release Fargo, the 1996 Coen Brothers black comedy of down-to-earth Minnesota crime, gets remastered in its latest blu-ray release.   This is the film that granted The Coens (Joel directs; Ethan produces; both handle screenplay ...

Once upon a time ago, a movie as massive as Universal’s silent classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame could be made. It is considered one of the most unusual productions of the time period. For decades after its filming, the Universal lot was jammed with the façade of a super   ...

Aging Bad Ass Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) returns to protect his Los Angeles neighborhood from the villains, the heathens, and the drug lords that surround his boxing community center. But this time he has help from a local bodega owner Bernie  ...

“I close this memo with a very earnest plea that you consent to this brief visual pattern to which I gave so many long hard days of work.” That is the closing line in writer/director Orson Welles’ 58-page memo to Universal after finally seeing the studio’s version of his movie.   ...

Leave it to Judi Dench, who squeezes every bit of emotion from each and every closeup in Stephen Frears’ movie, to actually bring a tear to my eye. Philomena is a heart wrenching road trip from Ireland to America and then back to the homeland that is definitely worth taking  ...