DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Prepare to roll your eyes.  I’m about to make a declaration that will probably offend some and cause a mild panic in others. Ready? Moonrise Kingdom is the absolute best Wes Anderson film. With this passionate look at the past, it seems the director of...

If you are at all like me, you see the possibilities that the gimmick of a man on a ledge somehow pulling off a jewel heist while pledging his innocence could sell itself on an assumed B-movie premise.  At once, all the white-knuckled moments flashed across your ...

Found footage films have primarily been outpouring from the horror genre, since The Blair Witch Project showed the film biz they could make a pretty penny; some to great success, most to a weary sigh. When Chronicle promos started to pop up, it caught the attention ...

It’s been about a week since I have seen Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.  Its themes – both haunting and human – have been resting inside me while I contemplate the dynamics of what I’ve seen.  Since then, I have seen the adverts on the television with the ...

While it started as an internet sensation, the real life story of an elderly man kicking ass and taking names on a bus has erupted into a full-fledged B movie starring genre geek favorite Danny Trejo. In Bad Ass, it seems Trejo is humanity’s last best hope for justice on ...

It’s hard to believe, but someone had to drag my ass to this movie back in 1998. I thought it was just another romantic comedy—something I’m just not fond of ever—and I have never been more emphatically proved wrong about a preconception in my life ...

Ignore the title. This isn’t an exploitation flick. Based on the true story of Sam Childers, a career criminal turned anti-Kony activist, Machine Gun Preacher presents a man maybe too far gone for redemption as he kills in the name of God. With the nicely handled ...

Bela Legosi was to Dracula as Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones to modern audiences. He so indelibly brought Bram Stoker’s count to life that whenever the world’s most famous vampire was mentioned, everyone would picture the angular caped man with a ....

The Grey, reuniting Neeson with his A-Team director Joe Carnahan (who asked him after fellow A-Team star, Bradley Cooper, dropped out), has appealed to many since it was released early this year, but not without its share of controversy ...

It might have taken two-decades but Pixar – the animation company responsible for Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and The Incredibles – is finally (and rather specifically) addressing their female audiences with the heroine-led mother and ...

Cat Run is an explosive mess of an action/comedy film.  Potentially, it could have been a surprise with fans of Tarantino and Rodriguez action flicks.  Director John Stockwell (Blue Crush) desperately wants the film to exist in the same universe as ...

William Castle’s collaboration with Hanna-Barbera (the home of Huckleberry Hound and Space Ghost and a whole gallery of other characters) might be a bit too static with a dialogue-heavy script, but that doesn’t stop it from being a cerebrally ...

For months before its release, both Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston teased entertainment news magazines and websites with rumors of her topless moments in his new comedy.  Somewhere among all the flesh and limbs though, they forgot to season their collaboration ...

Based on the popular live action role-playing game on college campuses across America, Humans vs Zombies is exactly what it says it is.  Humans.  Verses.  Zombies.  It’s not quite the battle for the ages and - with World War Z still in production and more seasons of ...

In just five short years, Marvel’s Spider-Man gets the redbooted remake in Marc Webb’s thrilling The Amazing Spider-Man.  While, before seeing the picture, one could argue the rationale of such a move on Columbia’s part, the necessity however becomes clear rather ...