DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Sam Raimi’s spooky old cabin – isolated in the deep, dark, twisted woods of rural, America – somehow exists outside of time. The newly reimagined Evil Dead – appearing some thirty plus years after the original film - is proof of that anomaly. As if no one ...

Rated: Rated PG for sequences of stylized sci-fi violence and brief mild language.
Runtime: 107 mins.
Director: Kerry Conran
Writer: Kerry Conran
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie ....complete cast
Genre: Sci-Fi
Tagline: Join the Resistance.
Memorable Quote: "Alert the amphibious squadron! "

ated: PG for some rough action, and crude humor including dialogue.
Runtime: 98 mins.
Director: Jared Hess
Writer: Jared Hess & Jerusha Hess
Cast: Jack Black; Ana de la Reguera
Tagline: Nacho Libre
Release Date: June 16, 2006
Genre: Comedy/Sport
Studio: Paramount Pictures

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving teen sexuality, language and some drug material.
Director: Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle
Writer: Brian Nelsonl
Cast: Chris Messina; Jenny O'Hara; Bokeen Woodbine
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Memorable Movie Quote: "Do I look like such a threat?"
Release Date: September 17, 2010
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: December 21, 2010

Taking cues from such horror heavyweights as The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby, filmmaker Scott Derrickson knows the most effective kind of terror - the kind that haunts a viewer’s mind and causes sleepless nights – comes not necessarily from the moments ...

MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA.
Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Cast: Alfred Abel; Gustav Frohlich; Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Genre: Sci-fi | Adventure | Classic
Memorable Movie Quote: "There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator."
Release Date: March 13, 1927
Blu-ray Release Date: November 23, 2010.

Old people at a retirement home in India is not exactly what I would call the greatest concept. These types of films are usually not my fancy, but a stellar cast is always a great way to bait someone such as myself. And bait it does very well. John Madden ...

Rated: R for non-stop language, drug use, crude and sexual humor.
Runtime: 100 mins.
Director: Fred Wolf
Writer: Peter Gaulke & Fred Wolf
Cast: Steve Zahn; Allen Covert; Jonah Hill; Kevin Heffernan
Tagline: "This ain't March of the Penguins."
Genre: Comedy
Memorable Quote: "Two weeks from now, the show is cancelled."... more quotes
Release Date: February 1, 2008
DVD Release Date: April 20, 2010

Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 104 mins.
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Writer: Shinji Aramaki
Cast: Kara Greenberg
Tagline: Hang six Summer 2007.
Genre: Animated/Comedy / Family
Own it on DVD: March 11, 2008

Many of the questions surrounding the follow-up to Sylvester Stallone’s wildly popular, star-studded geriatric action piece The Expendables, which turned out to be a more-than-worthy $274 million launch of a new franchise, have been answered. The promise ...

MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA.
Runtime: 92 mins.
Director: Robert Wise
Writer: Edmund H. North
Cast: Michael Rennie; Patricia Neal; Hugh Marlowe ... complete cast
Tagline: A robot and a man . . . hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet!
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Memorable Quote: "I'm worried about Gort. I'm afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me. " ... more quotes
Release Date: September 25, 1951
DVD Release Date: December 2, 2008

Jack Finney's 1955 novel "The Body Snatchers" gets remade almost every decade.  If that isn’t the mark of eternal entertainment then I don’t know what is.  Having read the novel, I can tell you that it is terrifying and that there have only been two adaptations ...

Rated: G for general audiences
Runtime: 103 mins.
Director: Andrew Stanton
Writer: Andrew Stanton and Jim Capobianco
Cast: Ben Burtt; Elisa Knight; Jeff Garlin; Fred Willard ... complete cast
Tagline: An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E.
Genre: Animated/Comedy / Family
Memorable Quote: "After I finish my virtual soda, I'm gonna hit some virtual golf balls at the virtual golf course" ... more quotes
Release Date: June 27, 2008
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008

The script goes, “Fear was lurking in every corner of town.  Who was still healthy?  Who was sick?”  No, this isn’t from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book.  This is from the Intertitles of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; the first and the absolute best ...

The critics said it couldn’t be done.  After the advent of sound in motion pictures, the silent film reels audiences loved before would be considered passé.  The success of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer had changed all that. People wanted “talkies” and producers always ...