DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

The film opens upon a closed stage curtain.  Slowly, the dull curtain opens to reveal a lone figure on its dusky stage.  With back to the audience, Sucker Punch – hiding what it truly is - begins its dreamlike trance with a web of slow-motion...

As an actor, Thomas McCarthy has gone largely unrecognized, toiling away in a long laundry list of generic character roles that’s no fewer than two or three scroll depths on IMDB: Meet the Parents, Little Fockers, The Wire, Law & Order, etc. We...

I would watch a Clint Eastwood film about grass growing. The man is just that good. Not every film of the now 31 film catalogue is a winner by any stretch, but whether an Oscar winner, a fan favourite, or a miss—at least inasmuch that Eastwood...

While this reviewer has never limited his exposure to any type film because of age, genre, language, topic—anything you could think of that can sometimes put one off at first glance—I, like anyone else have my preferences. At the bottom of...

Source Code proves that director Duncan Jones and his particular brand of minimalist sci-fi is not the product of flash-in-the-pan gimmickry.  Jones, in his second movie out of the gate, proves that he absolutely deserves to stand alongside...

Putting aside the bone-splitting and gory implements of the Saw franchise, those same writers give their audience the most terrifying thing of all with Insidious: the unknown. Since comparisons will be made by those in...

Disney’s 50^th animated feature, Tangled, really wants to be ranked with their very best.  While it has its moments of hilarity and sparkling computer animation, the story is a bit of a soulless journey...

Dario Argento calls this film his most sincere.  Fans of Argento call it his most incomprehensible.  Inferno is both.  Highly charged with a rich atmosphere and a poor sense of narrative structure, the film...

Even if you have never seen director Richard Fleischer’s Soylent Green from 1973, you know its ending. Quoted in everything from television’s Barney Miller to the mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, the...

Danny McBride is my knight in shining armor. His comedic chops and loopy characters, always with their undeserved swagger, can rescue me from any prolonged mood of supernatural dourness...

Once upon a time, in the frozen forests of Finland, there lived away from any certain village a little feral girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her father was excessively fond of her...

Christopher Nolan claims his Batman trilogy will do something a superhero franchise has never done before: definitively end the story. It’s a very clever approach and one that will subtly...

Connecting more with the anguish and anxiety of age rather than the concerns a child might feel, The Incredibles flexes its muscles as Pixar’s grand attempt (an experiment of sorts that led...

Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is no man’s hero.  He’s a dark and harrowing beast of a man; lonely in his cave-like taxi and lonelier still in a crowd of people.  His frustration as a Vietnam veteran and as an American is a palpable one ...

Entering into the ever-changing world of twitter and facebook status updates must be a hard task to accomplish for a 90s-based movie franchise. Scream made its mark back in 1996 with some clever lines concerning horror films and ...