DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Rated: PG-13 for violence, language, horror images, slime and gore.
Runtime: 120 mins.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson (story) and (screenplay)
Cast: Sanaa Lathan; Raoul Bova; Lance Henriksen....complete cast
Genre: Horror/Thriller/Action
Tagline: Whoever wins... We lose.
Memorable Quote: "You ugly son of a bitch!"

Born from the pages of a Texas Monthly magazine article, Bernie tells the story of gregarious assistant funeral home director Bernhardt Tiede (Jack Black) and wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). But more than it is the tale of the curiously improbable ...

With Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, director Lasse Hallström and writer Simon Beaufoy cast a wide net for offbeat, quirk and whimsy. And while the odd title may suggest they’re on the right track, clearly something was lost in the adaptation from comic ...

They populate the TV airwaves like tenement cockroaches, but it’s been a while since a sharp legal thriller has graced the big screen… and even longer since Matthew McConaughey has done anything worth...

Rated: R for strong graphic violence and some language.
Runtime: 122 mins.
Director: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen from a novel by Cormac McCarthy.
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones; Javier Bardem; Josh Brolin; Woody Harrelson ... complete cast
Tagline: There Are No Clean Getaways
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller/Western
Memorable Quote: "1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it." ... more quotes
Release Date: November 9, 2007

John Wayne who?  Seriously.  My father might have raised me with a healthy smattering of Wayne films every Sunday afternoon until I was ten, but this film makes the Rooster Cogburn of my youth simply fade into the sunset. It seems the Coen ...

Rated: R for strong violent content, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Runtime: 103 mins.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Writer: Luc Besson
Cast: Jet Li; Morgan Freeman; Bob Hoskins; Kerry Condon... complete cast
Tagline: Serve No Master.
Genre: Thriller/Action/Drama
Memorable Quote: "sweet is good"

Riffing on Alfred Hitchcock’s one-take experiment with Rope, Silent House presents horror aficionados with a spellbinding tale of tension that works more often than it doesn’t during its “real” 88-minutes.  The crack-shot camera work is all hand-held ...

MPAA Rating: R for war violence and language.
Runtime: 131 mins.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Cast: Jeremy Renner; Anthony Mackie; Brian Geraghty; Guy Pearce
Tagline: The Hurt Locker.
Genre: War
Memorable Quote: "If I'm gonna die, wanna die comfortable"
Release Date: July 10, 2009
DVD Release Date: January12, 2010.
Distributor: Summit Entertainment

The steely-eyed no-nonsense action thrillers of writer/director John Flynn (Lock Up, Out for Justice) gets their start with cult favorite Rolling Thunder.  Suggesting this film is a classic of the genre is indeed an understatement.  Everything about this fierce gem ...

Spring Breakers is a film about the current “Me” Generation that most members of that said grouping will fail to understand.  Why?  Because consequence and condemnation is not what their unearned sense of entitlement is all about.  Tough words, right?  ...

With the brute force of a fastball and the finesse of a well-aimed curve, Moneyball pops the leather with a triumphant true story about finding worth in uncommon places. That uncommon place in ...

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, brief nudity/sexuality, some violence and a drug reference.
Runtime: 128 mins.
Director: Roman Polanski;
Writer: Roman Polanski; Robert Harris.
Cast: Pierce Brosnan; Ewan McGregor; Olivia Williams; Tom Wilkinson
Tagline: The Ghost Writer.
Genre: Drama | Mystery

King Kong Blu-ray Digibook

MPAA Rating: This title has not been rated by the MPAA.
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack (uncredited)
Writer: James Ashmore Creelman
Cast: Fay Wray; Robert Armstrong; Bruce Cabot
Genre: Sci-fi | Drama
Memorable Movie Quote: “What’s he think she’s really gonna see?” - Bruce Cabot as Jack Driscoll in King Kong, 1933
Release Date: April 7, 1933
Blu-ray Release Date: September 21, 2010.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, thematic material and language including some sexual references.
Runtime: 87 mins.
Director: David S. Goyer
Writer: David S. Goyer
Cast: Gary Oldman; Meagan Good; Carla Gugino
Tagline: Evil will do anything to live.
Genre: Horror
Memorable Quote: "Jumby wants to be born now. "
Release Date: January 9, 2009
DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009
Distributor: Rogue Pictures