DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

In Andrew Niccol’s In Time, we learn of an alternate reality in the near future, where time really is money… or more specifically, currency. Everyone is born with a body clock embedded in the wrist which is activated when the frontal lobe of the brain ...

Considering this release of The Ray Harryhausen Double Feature from Legend has only a small connection to the imaginative wonder we know Harryhausen capable of and contains two films on Blu-ray and a bonus film on DVD ...

Finally, the truth about the walking dead can be told (and sold) to the masses.  Cretins and Clodettes, I bring you the blood-curdling classic known as Zombie!  Arriving fresh from its sabbatical at the Mount of All Things Gooey and Gross, Zombie should satisfy your need for babes and brains and ...

Riding the crest of an economically dissatisfied wave of thought that shows no sign of breaking, Tower Heist spins its timely yarn about some middle class broken down luxury apartment workers who decide to strike a big one against a Bernie Madoff-type character ...

Holy hayseeds and chintzy choke-weed, boys and girls!  If A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas isn’t the merriest surprise of unholy raunch and salacious retribution then I don’t know what is.  In a surprise twist of events, the film to enjoy more this weekend is a hellish ...

The poster for The Double - a movie that is yet another eolith in the burgeoning rebound of the cinematic espionage thriller - displays Richard Gere’s character prominently alongside the film’s title graphic intimating, not so subtly, that he ...

I’ve never read Aimee Bender’s novel and, based on director Marilyn Agrelo's puzzling adaptation, I am not sure that I ever will.  An Invisible Sign is a frustrating mess of undeveloped ideas, wasted story lines, and a series of mental illnesses ...

There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films.  Dark, dank, and dangerous, the basement in 1981’s House by the Cemetery is a fright fan’s best worst nightmare.  The corners are tight, the door always slams shut (then locks), the shadows...

While the majority of people probably think Andrew Lloyd Webber when they hear any mention of The Phantom of the Opera, there remains a loyal following of film lovers who, correctly, can’t help but picture Lon Chaney’s ...

Blue Velvet, now celebrating its 25^th anniversary, remains an intoxicating look at supposed small-town tranquility in which innocence fears to tread.  Written and directed by David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks) after suffering through ...

Oy vey. The money-grubbing cynical studio executives have really scraped the bottom of the barrel for this family-friendly flashy mess of recycled pop songs.  It is safe to say that Happy Feet 2 completely stumbles over itself in this largely unnecessary and rather ridiculous sequel. While the glossy 3D animation ...

The gut-busting and side-splitting laughs found in Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker, his 1990 parody of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, are only one part of the film’s many exploitative charms.  There’s an abundance of blood, boobs, and bad acting to boot.  No, Frankenhooker isn’t a great film by any ...

Celebrating its 25^th anniversary as the sequel that serves as more of a remake, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn reunites writer-director Sam Raimi and actor Bruce Campbell with the Necronomicon and then proceeds, on a somewhat better budget, to re-create the ...

With a new creative zest and the same loveable spirit that guided Jim Henson and company through five seasons of The Muppet Show and a venture into feature films, director James Bobin (HBO’s Flight of the Conchords), actor/writer Jason Segal and co-writer ...

This month Kino fires up its release of Silent Era films by unloading two classics from the towering film pioneer D.W. Griffith onto blu-ray.  Way Down East is probably the lesser known of the two releases (The Birth of a Nation being the other ...