DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Were you appalled by the viciousness of Kirk Douglas’ Einar character in 1958’s The Vikings? Was the “viking handkerchief” face washing scene in 1999’s The 13th Warrior one of the most disgusting things ever? Think you know what a viking is? You have no idea ...

I think that everyone knows that those early teen years were…confusing…to say the least. Everyone has had their own traumatizing experiences from that time (whether you choose to remember them or not). However, there is a sense of comfort knowing that we all went through it and  ...

“Unless a man believes that there is something great for him to do, he can do nothing great.” How on earth do you make a biopic set in the mid-19th century that poses as some kind of weird Western but yet somehow manages to successfully make strong political comparisons between ...

It is not your average revenge flick. Nor is it what you would expect from director Henri Verneuil and star Jean-Paul Belmondo for what was their seventh picture together. There are no jaw-dropping stunts from the screen legend, and in fact there is hardly any exciting action in this  ...

A small little underdog of a movie: it’s hard to believe but that’s exactly what Silence of the Lambs was. It was a film nobody wanted to make. Gene Hackman, who had paid for half the rights, bowed out, claiming it was too violent; Michelle Pfeiffer rejected the soon ...

Academy Award-winning filmmaker (turned producer here) Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) teams up with past and present members of the Eagles and produces a pretty solid documentary charting the band’s history.  Since ...

Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic material, disturbing violence and terror.
Runtime: 84 mins.
Director: Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang
Writer: Mark Wheaton (screenplay) & Todd Farmer (story)
Cast: Kristen Stewart; Dylan McDermott; Penelope Ann Miller; John Corbett ... complete cast
Tagline: There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomena. They see what adults cannot. They believe what adults deny. And they are trying to warn us.
Genre: Drama/Horro/Thriller
Memorable Quote: "Where are they? What do you see?"
DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language.
Runtime: 135 mins.
Director: Peter Jackson.
Writer: Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens
Cast: Stanley Tucci; Mark Wahlberg; Saoirse Ronan ... complete cast
Tagline: The story of a life and everything that came after...
Genre: Drama

Rated: R for pervasive strong crude and sexual content including graphic nudity, and language.
Runtime: 82 mins.
Director: Larry Charles
Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen; Pamela Anderson
Tagline: Coming November 3
Memorable Quote: "My moustache still tastes of your testes!"
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

For the past year and a half, Kino International has been steadily releasing their acquired Buster Keaton catalog on blu-ray.  Each release is a bit better than the one before it; from artwork to restoration.  Go West and Battling Butler, while not the absolute best that ...

Disney’s 20^th animated classic has the distinction of being the last film Walt himself approved for production, and the first made after his death. It was the first Disney film of the 1970s, and some animation historians believe it marker a distinct turn in the style of ...

MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong sadistic brutal violence, rape and torture, nudity and language.
Director: Steven R. Monroe
Writer: Stuart Morse
Cast: Sarah Butler; Chad Lindberg; Tracey Walter
Genre: Horror
Memorable Movie Quote: "Smile real pretty for the camera"
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Blu-ray Release Date: Not yet announced.

MPAA Rating: R for some disturbing images and language.
Director: Adam Green
Writer: Adam Green
Cast: Emma Bell; Shawn Ashmore; Kevin Zegers
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Memorable Movie Quote: "The sarlacc pit. From "Return of the Jedi". Uh, hello. Being slowly digested over a 1000 years - worst death ever."
Release Date: No theatrical wide release
Blu-ray Release Date: September 28, 2010.

Overtly throwback and unapologetically patriotic, Red Tails is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a band of “colored personnel” who fought through racism in America to fly as fighter pilots over Europe for the Army Air Corps during World War II ...

First things first. If you don’t “get” exploitation filmmaking, nothing we say here is going to make you understand. Nor is it going to convince you to watch Hobo With a Shotgun, the Sundance darling from Michael Eisener now working its way...