DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Famed director Clint Eastwood continues to pound out film after noteworthy film in a career that seems to stretch back into the very beginning of the motion picture industry itself and, while his workmanship is usually top-notch in the craft, his latest ...

Borrowing a riff from Harold Lloyd’s Grandma’s Boy, Buster Keaton perfects the lovable loser’s battle for the girl – a plot line that is still in play in most comedies today - in this 1923 classic from the silent era of filmmaking.  Our Hospitality might have been Keaton’s...

A fan of the pulp era, wonderfully lurid tales told briskly and cheaply from the Depression into the 1950s, this reviewer, like many, latched onto a certain reoccurring character written by an unassuming fellow, long since gone (and under sad circumstances). The character’s name: Conan ...

Marching forward with a madcap frenzy of make-up and special effects, director Tim Burton’s imagination gets more and more far-reaching and out there.  His take on Roald’s Dahl’s famous Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was certainly...

It’s about a maladjusted robot.  He wears clunky footwear, a slick cape, and burns people alive with lasers.  And it’s damn near brilliant.  You see, the brain inside the robot used to belong to a Nobel Prize winning scientist and, well, I’m getting ahead of myself ...

Director: Kieran Mulroney; Michele Mulroney
Writer: Kieran Mulroney; Michele Mulroney
Cast: Jeff Daniels; Emma Stone; Ryan Reynolds

Our imaginations are funny things.  They can drive us forward to meet our destinations or exhaust us with supreme isolation.  Paper Man is about the type of imagination that absolutely crushes its beholder with limiting remoteness for two people, one inside a childless marriage, and the other, inside a local community.  Co-directed by the husband-and-wife team of Kieran and Michele Mulroney, Paper Man waxes poetic with some quasi-heavy themes – writer’s block, lineage, suicide, and death – inside a light-hearted story that doesn’t ask much from its audience.

Joe and Patrick’s summer vacation has just begun, and already their parents make them want to run away. But where can suburban teenage boys go to escape? Joe gets an idea: they’ll build their own house in the secluded woods. After making a crude birdhouse ...

MPAA Rating: This film has not been rated by the MPAA.
Runtime: 71 mins.
Director: Charles Reisner
Writer: Carl Harbough
Cast: Buster Keaton; McGuire; Ernest Torrance
Tagline: The Laugh Special of the Age. See It.
Genre: Comedy | Silents
Release Date: May 20, 1928
Blu-ray, DVD Release Date: July 6, 2010
Distributor: United Artists

MPAA Rating: R for drug content throughout, and pervasive language including some sexual references.
Runtime: 104 mins.
Director: Jonas Pate
Writer: Thomas Moffett
Cast: Kevin Spacey; Robin Williams; Gore Vidal ... complete cast
Tagline: The doctor is out.
Genre: Drama
Memorable Quote: "I'm just trying to sell smoke man. It's not that serious." ... more quotes
Release Date: July 31, 2009
DVD Release Date: May 10, 2010.
Distributor: Roadside Attractions

The election’s over, friends.  It’s time to chew bubblegum and kick ass again! Director John Carpenter had a nice run, didn’t he?  Between the late 1970’s and the early 1990’s, Carpenter was king of science fiction and horror.  Even if – as is the case with 1988’s They Live ...

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for stylized violence, sexual content, language and drug references.
Director: Edgar Wright
Writer: Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright
Cast: Michael Cera; Alison Pill; Mark Webber
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Tagline: Get the hot girl. Defeat her evil exes. Hit love where it hurts.
Memorable Movie Quote: "You punched me in the boob! Prepare to die obviously!"
Release Date: August 13, 2010
DVD Release Date: November 9, 2010.

MPAA Rating: R.
Runtime:98  mins.
Director: Harold Ramis
Writer: Brian Doyle-Murray & Harold Ramis
Cast: Bill Murray; Ted Knight, Rodney Dangerfield
Tagline: At last, a comedy that bites!
Genre: Comedy
Memorable Quote: Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.

Announced with the loud and proclaiming carnival fanfare of “Casey Jones”, the opening of Walt Disney’s Dumbo, now celebrating its 70^th anniversary, defines the sweetness that is its very soul ...

There may be only one reason to see this film.  Maybe two if you are a fan of Charlie Chaplin, but – speaking from strictly the filmgoer’s point of view – the true value of this film lies with Robert Downey Jr’s inspired performance...

The 2013 Oscars are right around the corner. The months of September - December are battlegrounds for the heavyweights of film, with a few underdogs in there to keep it fresh. Every film that comes out during this time frame is either vying for some sort of ...