DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references.
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Cast: Megan Faccio; Nev Shulman; Rel Shulman
Genre: Documentary | Indie
Memorable Movie Quote: "Your voice is not at all what I expected"
Release Date: September 24, 2010.
Blu-ray Release Date: January 4, 2011

Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Writer: Chris Sparling
Cast: Ryan Reynolds; Stephen Tobolowsky; Samantha Mathis

Imagine an hourglass. It’s running out of time. Quickly. The emptying of every grain of sand from one side to the other is the only amount of time in which you have to live. And the sand is quickening in its fall. Yet, this hourglass is different. You aren’t looking from the outside inward. It is life-size. It encases you. The sand falls upon you; burying you alive. Until…there is only darkness. Bleak and hopeless, with no time left. And it is within this prolonged darkness in which Buried, directed Rodrigo Cortés, comes alive in purpose.

Director: David Fincher
Writer: Alan Sorkin
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg; Justin Timberlake; Andrew Garfield; Rooney Mara; Armie Hammer

Depending on which story you believe, Facebook was either founded outright by a socially inept idiot who, ironically, was looking for a way to improve his own social status. Or, it was stolen without giving recognition (and profits) to those who originated the idea. That’s the central conflict in David Fincher’s The Social Network, a film that looks at the moment at which Facebook, inarguably the most revolutionary social phenomenon of the century, was invented...

There ought to be a law against what Hollywood is doing to the foreign film market.  Seriously.  It certainly is an artistic travesty to think or assume that just because a film, such as Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In, is presented in a foreign language...

MPAA Rating: This version not rated by the MPAA.
Director: William Lustig
Writer: Richard Vetere
Cast: Robert Forster; Fred Williamson; Joseph Carberry
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama
Tagline: You're not safe anymore
Memorable Movie Quote: "You're in my way, bro."
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1983
Blu-ray Release Date: September 21, 2010.

Retirement is a joy for most. It’s something the common person looks forward to, plans for and usually loves every minute of.  Imagine doing nothing all day long. Absolutely nothing. What could possibly be dull about that?...

Far more than anything in the act of filmmaking I appreciate honesty the most.  Most Hollywood features these days sell themselves on a lie or they greedily want to steal your money with flashy effects or easy sequels and...

MPAA Rating: R for violence, pervasive language, and drug content.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Writer: Tim Blake Nelson
Cast: Edward Norton; Susan Sarandon; Richard Dreyfuss
Genre: Comedy | Crime
Memorable Movie Quote: "Your choice is to expand your business, or we shut you down entirely."
Release Date: No wide theatrical release.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 12, 2010.

MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language.
Runtime: 95 mins.
Director: Samuel Bayer
Writer: Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley; Rooney Mara; Katie Cassidy
Tagline: Never Sleep Again.
Genre: Horror
Memorable Movie Quote: "Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet! "
Release Date: April 30, 2010
DVD Release Date: October 5, 2010
Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

MPAA Rating: R for graphic war violence, language and some sexuality.
Director: David O. Russell
Writer: David O. Russell
Cast: Mark Wahlberg; George Clooney; Ice Cube; Spike Jonze
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "Walter, just stand outside so Chief can translate my Iraqi ass map... okay?"
Release Date: October 1, 1999.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 12, 2010.

At the ripe age of 80, director Clint Eastwood finally gives his audience – after a landmark career of numerous appearances in front of the camera and 31 behind it - some thoughts on what lies beyond this mortal coil in his latest feature...

MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language.
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: William Davies
Cast: Gerard Butler; Craig Ferguson; America Ferrera
Genre: Animated; Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "Your butts are getting bigger! We thought you were a dragon!"
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Blu-ray Release Date: October 15, 2010.

After the breakthrough success of last year’s indie Paranormal Activity, it was a no-brainer that Paramount Pictures would see fit to develop a quick sequel.  The question on everyone’s mind was “how exactly does...

Would you give up your life to save someone else’s? What if that “someone else” were your brother? That’s the burning dilemma behind Conviction, the true-life story of how a woman spent 18 years putting herself...

MPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola; John Milius
Cast: Marlon Brando; Martin Sheen; Robert Duvall
Genre: War | Drama
Memorable Movie Quote: "We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig... cow after cow... village after village... army after army.."
Release Date: August 15, 1979
Blu-ray Release Date: October 19, 2010.