DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

MPAA Rating: This film has not been rated by the MPAA.
Runtime: 152 mins.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Writer: Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg
Cast: Michael Nyqvist; Noomi Rapace; Lena Andre ... complete cast
Tagline: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Genre: Crime | Mystery | Foreign
Release Date: April 2, 2010
DVD Release Date: Not yet available on DVD/Blu-ray
Distributor: Music Box Films

The murder mystery format turns sleazy in this exploitation offering from genre-hopping director Sergio Martino.  The Italians have always had an eye for exposing skin and mixing beauty with ...

MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use.
Director: Robert Rodriguez; Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Robert Rodriguez; Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Danny Trejo; Rose McGowen; Josh Brolin
Genre: Action | Horror | Thriller
Memorable Movie Quote: "White meat, dark meat. All will be carved. THANKSGIVING."
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Blu-ray Release Date: October 5, 2010.

David Gordon Green’s The Sitter is essentially an R-rated retooling of Chris Columbus’s Adventures in Babysitting from 1987.  The kids are edgier, situations are shamefully more homophobic, and, opening with a scene of oral sex, it’s completely unafraid...

Let’s face it. Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn aren’t getting any younger and both are in serious need of a hit. Their collective dry spell is a bit overlong and both are capable comedians… but their guaranteed shtick gets a bit tiresome. One talks too much ...

21 Jump Street is an unexpectedly weird and wild ride down the nostalgic turnpike.  Full of expected vulgarity, explosive action beats, and sudden turns full of sweetness and character only to slam into a wall of genuine weirdness, it’s a movie that is hard to describe and that, ...

MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual material.
Director: Jay and Mark Duplass
Writer:Jay and Mark Duplass
Cast: Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, Catherine Keener, Marisa Tomei
Genre: Comedy
Memorable Movie Quote: "My ex-wife's getting remarried, but I'm OK with it."
Release Date: July 2, 2010 (wide)
DVD Release Date: December 21, 2010

The Rite isn’t exactly the horror experience it is being marketed as.  It isn’t exactly all that good either.  While it has its fair share of plagues and puking and haunted houses, horror aficionados should steer clear.  While adding absolutely...

Rated: PG-13 for thematic material, including intense/frightening sequences and disturbing images.
Runtime: 97 mins.
Director: Scott Derrickson
Writer: Paul Harris Boardman & Scott Derrickson
Cast: Tom Wilkinson; Laura Linney; Jennifer Carpenter
Tagline: What Happened to Emily?
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Genre: Drama/Horror
Studio: Screen Gems, Inc
Memorable Quote: "I don't care about my reputation. What I care about is telling Emily Rose's story."

Rated: PG for some action/peril, mild language and brief smoking.
Runtime: 112. mins.
Director: Jay Russell
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay); Dick King-Smith (book)
Cast: Ben Chaplin; Bruce Allpress; Eddie Campbell; Peter Corrigan ... complete cast
Tagline: Every big secret starts small.
Genre: Adventure/ Family/Fantasy
Memorable Quote: "Don't worry. I'll take care of you" ... more quotes
Release Date: December 25, 2007
DVD Release Date: April 8, 2008

When it was first announced that Piranha, the 1978 original spoof of Jaws, which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible groan was heard from the masses.  This would never work so...

One of the few genres of film that this reviewer has never been able to stomach too easily is the romantic comedy. Not because he doesn’t like to see people fall in love, then misstep, find their way back from disaster, and make it in the end, but because ...

The bookish virgin.  Two selfish friends.  The obsessed psychiatrist.  A babysitting job on October 31^st.  And The Shape.  Halloween, masterfully directed by John Carpenter, is considered – some 35 years after its release – a classic film of sound and vision ...

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, brief language, some sexuality and drug content.
Runtime: 145 mins.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Scott Frank
Cast: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
Genre: Action | Sci-fi
Memorable Movie Quote: "Fi Most memorable quote: "You're under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks."
Release Date: June 21, 2002
DVD Release Date: April 10, 2010

Rated: R for language.
Runtime: 93 mins.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer: Dave Kajganich (screenplay); Jack Finney (novel)
Cast: Nicole Kidman; Daniel Craig; Jeremy Northam.
Tagline: Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep.
Genre: Action / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Memorable Quote: "We'll watch over each other, make sure we don't fall asleep."
Release Date: August 17, 2007