DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

With better special effects and a more effective 3D tooling, Wrath of the Titans attempts to make up for the lackluster 2010 remake that undazzled critics and somehow still earned a buck or two. It doesn’t. Not by a longshot. Call it The Wrath of the Sequel because...

With the wind of a recent Oscar win for Best Documentary Feature at its back, Undefeated heads out into the wooly wilderness of a wide theatrical release this weekend. Born from a magazine article about college football recruiting, the documentary is a culmination of ...

With shades of an early ‘60’s-era romantic comedy that might have starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day, but with the cinematic intelligence of a five-year-old, This Means War does for the romantic comedy what Episode I did to ...

After a promising opening scene, in which an attractive young woman (Jennifer Lynn Warren) slowly disrobes and slips into the murky backwaters of a Louisiana swamp before being stalked and dismembered by a rogue alligator ...

Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader succeeds on far more levels than it fails. On its surface, it’s a fact-based narrative on the life of Kenyan Kimani Ng’ang’ a Maruge (known simply as Maruge), who tried to enroll in his country’s primary school...

Qasim Basir’s debut film, Mooz-lum takes a soul-searing look at the issues faced by a young Muslim man growing up in a 9/11-era America. Promoted initially via word-of-mouth and social media, the...

MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity and some language.
Director: John Irvin
Writer: James Scott Linville
Cast: Jack Huston; Mena Suvari; Matthew Modine
Genre: Drama
Tagline: Surrender your inhibitions...
Memorable Movie Quote: "You know you want to be careful about Absinthe. It tastes like remorse, yet it takes it away."
Release Date: December 10, 2010.
Blu-ray Release Date: Not yet announced

Supposedly, this remake was targeted as a fun film for a horny 17 year old boy to kick back and enjoy; a down and dirty exploitation horror flick that unabashedly panders to the wants of that particular market. I have news for the makers of this film ...

There are few films in the history of cinema with such reverence attached than 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. It is a tall order to rise above expectation that any film could enter that world and ingrain itself so indelibly as the Victor Fleming directed classic did. Even ...

With 127 Hours, a film based on the book titled Between a Rock and a Hard Place, filmmaker Danny Boyle finds himself in a challenging predicament. One certainly not as dire and consequential as that faced by his cocky canyoneering protagonist

MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief sensuality.
Runtime: 118 mins.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Writer: Travis Beacham and Phil Hay
Cast: Sam Worthington; Liam Neeson; Ralph Fiennes.
Tagline: The Clash Begins 2.4.2010

Genre: Action | Adventure

MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements and some language.
Runtime: 102 mins.
Director: Dagen Merrill
Writer: Dagen Merrill
Cast: Alexa Vega; Timothy Hutton; Rhys Wakefield
Tagline: Broken Hill.
Genre: Drama | Family | Music
Memorable Quote: "Tommy, We hadn't got all day."
Release Date: September 11, 2009
DVD Release Date: Not yet on DVD.
Distributor: Audience Alliance Pictures

MPAA Rating: R for violent content and language.
Runtime: 93 mins.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Writer: Gus Krieger and Ann Peacock
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Nick Cannon, Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton, Shea Whigham, Peter Stormare. ... complete cast
Tagline: The Killing Room.
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Memorable Quote: "These tapes do not exist, this room does not exist." ... more quotes
Release Date: January 16, 2009 (Sundance Film Festival)
DVD Release Date: October 13, 2009
Distributor: No U.S. Distributor

MPAA Rating: Rated R for language.
Runtime: 108 mins.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Cast: Matt Damon; Lucas McGugh Carroll; Eddie Jemison
Tagline: Based on a tattle-tale .
Genre: Comedy
Memorable Quote: "Corn goes in one end and out the other."
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content including crude dialogue, language and drug material.
Runtime: 111 mins.
Director: Drew Barrymore
Cast: Sarah Habel; Shannon Eagen; Allen Page ... complete cast
Tagline: Be Your Own Hero.
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Memorable Quote: "I like smart girls. That's why I married your mama. Well, that and I knocked her up. " ... more quotes
Release Date: October 2, 2009
DVD Release Date: January 26, 2010.