DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

There’s a dangerous sense of urgency that outlines the case for first-time director Michael Webber’s The Elephant in the Living Room.  In spite of its playful and clever title, this is one documentary that is deadly serious about...

It’s been ten years since Memento was originally released to universal acclaim.  Look at what director Christopher Nolan has accomplished since then: Insomnia, The Prestige, Batman Begins...

From the opening few comical seconds of Paramount’s Rango, it is evident that its primary source of inspiration has its roots in the iconic spaghetti westerns that Sergio Leone once made. The water-drained deserts, the hot as hellfire sun...

The go-go ‘80s get another loving celluloid tribute with Take Me Home Tonight, a film that succeeds (but just barely), not by poking fun at the decade of leg warmers, big hair, and even bigger cell phones, but rather by embracing...

You know you are dealing with a real “goodfella” when it takes two films to tell your life story.  Jacques Mesrine was that type of larger-than-life figure of the criminal scene.  Publicity hound or philosopher; both were...

Modern crime capers don’t get much better than Steven Soderbergh’s slick take on Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight.  Always a dazzler with rich material, Soderbergh has a wonderful habit of giving his audiences exactly what they want: style and...

You’re groaning already.  I know you are.  Deep down inside, there’s a part of your soul that cannot believe there is yet another retelling, respooling, redux, retread deluxe (the KING SIZED) version of Charlotte Brontë’s...

Good grief, Charlie Brown, is this movie ever really awful dinner theatre offerings.  Uninspired and generally boring, Red Riding Hood plays out its tale of revenge as if it really were a dish best served cold - with no blood and no heart...

I love L.A. What other city affords such an enjoyable opportunity to make fun of, as it’s being slowly and methodically dismantled, piece-by-piece by an invading alien force?  The string of potential jokes...

There’s a sense of timeless purity that encases Walt Disney’s Bambi in a shell of cinematic quality.  From the kids’ voices that grace the beginning of Bambi’s life to the first...

As the FBI warning flittered across my television screen, I wondered just what impact this movie would have upon me.  I had heard the stories; heard just how maddening the documentary was; heard just how insane it drove folks with...

Positioning itself in a believable world where the apocalypse is brought about by soulless zombies, AMC’s The Walking Dead took cable television by storm last year.  The show juggled itself between moments of hard-hitting violence...

Director Todd Phillips has been around the movie-making track for quite some time now, and, after the monster success of The Hangover, he has been in the enviable position of riding that gravy train with biscuit wheels, where...

Written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Paul sucks upon the Spielberg/Lucas tit until all the milk and laughs have run dry – and then it keeps on sucking for good measure.  Amusing although a little too long, there’s no denying that Paul is a geeked-out...

Coming straight out of another era of filmmaking, Sharktopus begs to ask the tough question that Hollywood won’t.  What’s wrong with a slice of sci-fi cheese?  If you ask famed producer of all things mighty and...