DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Ah, the mystique of beauty and youth. Woody Allen returns to his existential comedy roots and finds a new leading lady in the muse of the always remarkable Emma Stone with Magic in the Moonlight, his 46^th film. You can think whatever you want to think about him. Allen doesn’t care ...

It’s time to get on the Wingard/Barrett bandwagon. If you missed last year’s You’re Next, a twisty-turny little revisit to the home-invasion slasher genre, then that’s a good place for you to start. The director/writer team has been on quite a roll with segments in V/H/S,  ...

SNL alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader reteam for Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins, a meaty little love story with sibling rivalry and family dysfunction as its central themes.  You’d be forgiven for expecting this to be a riotous comedy. After all, it does star one of ...

The little television series that could, Showcase’s Continuum, returns to Blu-ray via Universal Studios Home Entertainment and a 3-disc Season Three set. The series is broadcast here in the United States on Syfy and, well, let’s not kid ourselves, you still aren’t  ...

Only one part of
Psycho
may be underrated

: the stylized intro with its opening credits. Horizontal and vertical lines rush across the screen. Words appear cut apart, split into stripes until they line up and right themselves. They foreshadow the splitting of characters’ psyches  ...

Rated: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor.
Runtime: 90 mins.
Director: C.B. Harding
Writer: Bear Aderhold & Tom Sullivan
Cast: Michael Edward Rose; Glenn Morshower; Larry the Cable Guy ... complete cast
Tagline: G.I. Joke.
Genre: war/comedy
Memorable Quote: "We are in the most dangerous city in the world, except maybe for Detroit."
Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 2007
DVD Release Date: September 4, 2007

In his characteristic way of illustrating the sharp contrasts of flawed people dealing with the most difficult situations, Alexander Payne adapts the Kaui Hart Hemmings novel, The Descendants by emphasizing the comical, devastating, and revealing moments ...

Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a gripping and forgotten classic of the film noir era.  Lang, being one of the several German filmmakers that helped shaped and mold and experiment with the film medium, arrived in Hollywood in the late 1930s, but most of his post-silent ...

Ever have that crazy dream – nightmare really, and usually recurring – of being asked to give a live presentation for which you’re completely unprepared? Or, what about the one where you have to take a final exam...

Apparently, Back to the Future wasn’t all that unique of a time travelling movie.  I’m sure producer Michael Nesmith (of The Monkees) and director William Dear, the co-creators of the 1982 sci-fi/western Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann in which a ...

For a film with virtually no plot, little scripted dialogue, and only the most basic of character sketches, Like Crazy manages to say more about true love than even the grandest of classic love stories. That’s because Like Crazy isn’t ...

MPAA Rating: NR - Not rated.
Director: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Writer: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Genre: Documentary | Crime
Tagline: It's frightening to think they did it. It's terrifying to think they didn't
Memorable Movie Quote: "I hate these boys and the mothers who bore them."
Release Date: January 1996 (Sundance Film Festival)
Blu-ray Release Date: October 25, 2005.

Own it on DVD: November 11, 2008
Distributor: Warner Home Video
Official Site: www.warnerbros.com
None of the films have been rated by the MPAA
Number of Discs: 3
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Rated: R for graphic battle sequences throughout, some sexuality and nudity.
Runtime: 117 mins.
Director: Zack Snyder
Writer: Zack Snyder & Kurt Johnstad
Cast: Gerard Butler; Lena Headey; Dominic West; David Wenham
Tagline: Prepare for Glory
Genre: Action / Adventure / War
Memorable Quote: Spartans! Enjoy your breakfast, for tonight we dine in Hell!
Release Date: March 9, 2007

Rated: R for language, some violence and sexual content.
Runtime: 126 mins.
Director: Allen Coulter
Writer: Paul Bernbaum
Cast: Adrien Brody; Diane Lane; Ben Affleck; Bob Hoskins ... complete cast
Tagline: Living in Holly wood can make you famous. Dying in Hollywood can make you a legend.
Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery
Memorable Quote: "Since when do suicides miss twice and start over?"
Release Date: September 8, 2006
Studio: Focus Features