DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Let’s get this out of the way upfront: If you aren’t a Wes Anderson fan, then it is recommended you stay far, far away from his latest film, Asteroid City. Similarly, if you don’t “get” his brand of filmmaking, there’s really no need to waste your time reading any further, as nothing here is going  ...

When we meet the overly-privileged young Londoner Tony (James Fox), he’s passed out in a makeshift chair in his empty new townhouse with a drink in his hand, only to be awoken by the polite, prospective manservant Hugo Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) reminding him of their 3 p.m ...

Judy Blume’s YA novel called Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is of one of the most challenged and banned books in America. Ever since its publication in 1970, incensed parents, clueless politicians, and bureaucratic administrators have been trying to get it removed from reading lists due to...

Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, sci-fi auteur James Cameron was riding high on the wave of a box office incinerating little movie called Titanic. The man had already proven his metal in varying genres but had faced bad press and studio doubt getting that extraordinary  ...

The 80s produced a massive amount of now legendary comedies. There were franchises galore covering teens, colleges, nerds, cops, farces and surreal comedy galore. Name a classic franchise or just a classic that is still run on TV these days, and you’ll quickly see at least one entry of them  ...

There are few actors out there that I would watch performing paint dry. Denzel Washington is one of those actors. No stranger to being lauded, he would pick up his second Oscar playing a memorable bad guy in 2001’s Training Day ...

To celebrate the release of the Indiana Jones series on blu ray, we offer a four part retrospective article series honouring one of the most beloved franchises in film history ...

Grab your popcorn and settle in, folks! In fact, go ahead and spring for that hot dog too. You’re in for a helluva ride. That puppy-loving hitman, John Wick is back in John Wick: Chapter 4, and he has two things on his mind: revenge and a way out ...

Remakes! They are now a studio staple, with every studio head and producer uttering that terrible commercially driven mantra: existing IP! It rarely produces anything but a watered-down retelling of a once revelatory hit, cheaply relying on nostalgia to make a buck and keeps a lot of original  ...

Every now and then competing studios find themselves making and releasing the same sort of product around the same time. In 1998, Touchstone Pictures (Disney) and Paramount went head-to-head with asteroid disaster ensembles. While Michael Bay’s Armageddon clearly trounced Mimi  ...

Few fictional characters have been through the entertainment wringer as many times as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan the Ape Man. The subject of dozens of novels, countless comic books, a TV and a radio series, Broadway plays, and more than 200 movies (the oldest  ...

Talk about a toxic relationship! The one shared between Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his handler Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult, About a Boy) has gotten so bad that Renfield, a former real estate agent who sold his soul to the Count some 100 years ago, attends a  ...

“Is that what I was so afraid of?” What is the scariest kind of monster? Is it a knife-wielding, masked psychopath wreaking havoc in a small town? Is it an alien creature from another planet that can eat or mimic another species completely? Is it an unpredictable, reconstructed monster made by a mad scientist  ...

A few years back, I got to write a long form article about the Superman films, so if you’re looking for a deep dive then please check out: ‘Superman On the Big Screen: Parts 1-4’. For this new UHD release from Warner Bros, I’ll give a quick review of each of the five included Christopher Reeve  ...

It’s 1908 in London, and Miss Sonia Winter (the great Diana Rigg), a strong-willed and staunch feminist who holds aspirations to become a journalist lays before the heads of a notable newspaper a story that will be sure to make a name for herself. She’s seemed to uncover an organization that offers  ...