DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Ask any everyday law abiding person what they would do to a person who harmed or sexually abused their child, and I’m sure you would hear multitudes of graphic responses somewhat out of character. ‘I would kill them’, ‘tear their balls off and shove them ...

I’ll make this easy on you.  Exploitation films simply do not get much better than with Nude Nuns with Big Guns.  From the title to the actual content, this film explodes with skin, violence, and sex, sex, sex.  This isn’t your typical movie and for the easily offended, well, you should probably ...

It’s hard to conceive in this era of remake-itus that some re-dos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing ...

Rated: PG for crude humor and some language.
Runtime: 107 mins.
Director: David Bowers; Sam Fell
Writer: Sam Fell and Peter Lord
Cast: Kate Winslet; Hugh Jackman; Ian McKellen; Andy Serkis; Bill Nighy
Tagline: Someone's Going Down
Memorable Quote: "Have you seen my dad?"
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Genre: Animation/Comedy
Studio: Paramount/Dreamworks

Few events offer as much potential for comedic effect as a girl’s wedding day. Put a group of overbearing women (who don’t know one another) together with a bitchy, on-edge bride expecting the planets to align...

Finally, a serious take on the modern day vampire from a team of Americans arrives.  Stake Land, directed by Jim Mickle, is an unsettling and atmospheric post-apocalyptic thriller.  Think The Road with fangs and lots and lots of blood and you’ll understand ...

Metallica Through the Never might be the best heavy metal concert I’ve never attended. Filled with explosive performances from a band still hard at work and a catalog of songs that won’t stop its assault on the ears, the 3-D concert is the IMAX experience that you won't ...

Perhaps Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) says it best because there literally is “no place to hide” from this nearly three-hour continuation of Peter Jackson’s overwrought three-picture adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s beloved pint-sized children’s book The Hobbit ...

How’s this for reaching into the cob-webbed bag of arcane source material and pulling out a shiny gem of a TV-to-movie adaptation? Mr. Peabody and Sherman comes from the beloved but largely-forgotten animated TV series Peabody’s Improbable History, that originally  ...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a serious slice of paranoid espionage. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), the puny kid transformed by Stark’s science into Captain America, returns to kick all kinds of ass in this resolute thriller that ties in nicely with the Marvel Cinematic  ...

Thank God for originality, even if it does make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Based off the short film Oculus Chapter 3: The Man with the Plan; Oculus, directed by Mike Flanagan (Absentia, Ghosts of Hamilton Street) creates an intriguing   ...

After the epidemic of remakes, reboots (or as the cynic might say, ‘we’ve milked this cow in its current incarnation as much as we can, so here’s a new version!), there is something truly ‘amazing’ in that these things continue to make astounding money. Batman, after a significant  ...

In a pleasant little case of art imitating life, filmmaker Jon Favreau leaves the world of big-budget extravaganzas to return to his indie roots with Chef, a film in which he stars, directs, and writes about a celebrated chef who exits his high profile job at a popular Los Angeles ...

Blazing Saddles, the penultimate western comedy, has been unseated by Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West. This take-no-prisoners comedic assault is both a farce of the western genre and of our consistently inconsistent human nature. Do not attempt  ...

Darker.  Bolder.  DreamWorks Animation corrects their sequel mistakes of the past and produces a heartwarming masterpiece of animation that holds up (and then some) to its predecessor.  Mounting a second installment to a commercial and a critical darling must have ...