DVD Reviews

MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and language throughout, drug use and sexual content.
Director: Daniel Barber
Writer: Gary Young
Cast: Michael Caine; Emily Mortimer; Ian Glen
Genre: Crime | Drama
Memorable Movie Quote: "You failed to maintain your weapon, Son."
Release Date: April 30, 2010.
Blu-ray Release Date: August31, 2010.

MPAA Rating: PG.
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: W.D. Richter
Cast: Donald Sutherland; Brooke Adams; Jeff Goldblum
Genre: Sci-fi
Memorable Movie Quote: "In an hour... you won't want them to. In an hour, you'll be one of us."
Release Date: December 20, 1978
Blu-ray Release Date: September 14, 2010.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, partial nudity, language and some disturbing images.
Director: Johnny Campbell
Writer: William Davies
Cast: Decian Donnelley; Anthony McPartlin; Bill Pullman.
Genre: Sci-fi | Comedy
Memorable Movie Quote: "Me and Mr. Potato Head; we're like that... that's me on top there..."
Release Date: No wide theatrical release.
Own it on DVD: September 21, 2010.

MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Writer: Cyril Hume
Cast: Walter Pidgeon; Anne Francis; Leslie Nielson
Genre: Sci-fi
Memorable Movie Quote: "Nothing less. The number 10 raised almost literally to the power of infinity."
Release Date: March 15, 1956
Blu-ray Release Date: September 7, 2010.

Director: Dan O'Bannon
Writer: Dan O'Bannon
Cast: Clu Gulager; James Karen; Don Kalfa
Genre: Horror | Comedy
Memorable Movie Quote: "I know you are in there.  I can smell your brains."
Release Date: August 16, 1985
Blu-ray Release Date: September 14, 2010.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references.
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Cast: Megan Faccio; Nev Shulman; Rel Shulman
Genre: Documentary | Indie
Memorable Movie Quote: "Your voice is not at all what I expected"
Release Date: September 24, 2010.
Blu-ray Release Date: January 4, 2011

Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Writer: Chris Sparling
Cast: Ryan Reynolds; Stephen Tobolowsky; Samantha Mathis

Imagine an hourglass. It’s running out of time. Quickly. The emptying of every grain of sand from one side to the other is the only amount of time in which you have to live. And the sand is quickening in its fall. Yet, this hourglass is different. You aren’t looking from the outside inward. It is life-size. It encases you. The sand falls upon you; burying you alive. Until…there is only darkness. Bleak and hopeless, with no time left. And it is within this prolonged darkness in which Buried, directed Rodrigo Cortés, comes alive in purpose.

Director: David Fincher
Writer: Alan Sorkin
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg; Justin Timberlake; Andrew Garfield; Rooney Mara; Armie Hammer

Depending on which story you believe, Facebook was either founded outright by a socially inept idiot who, ironically, was looking for a way to improve his own social status. Or, it was stolen without giving recognition (and profits) to those who originated the idea. That’s the central conflict in David Fincher’s The Social Network, a film that looks at the moment at which Facebook, inarguably the most revolutionary social phenomenon of the century, was invented...

There ought to be a law against what Hollywood is doing to the foreign film market.  Seriously.  It certainly is an artistic travesty to think or assume that just because a film, such as Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In, is presented in a foreign language...

MPAA Rating: This version not rated by the MPAA.
Director: William Lustig
Writer: Richard Vetere
Cast: Robert Forster; Fred Williamson; Joseph Carberry
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama
Tagline: You're not safe anymore
Memorable Movie Quote: "You're in my way, bro."
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1983
Blu-ray Release Date: September 21, 2010.

Retirement is a joy for most. It’s something the common person looks forward to, plans for and usually loves every minute of.  Imagine doing nothing all day long. Absolutely nothing. What could possibly be dull about that?...

Far more than anything in the act of filmmaking I appreciate honesty the most.  Most Hollywood features these days sell themselves on a lie or they greedily want to steal your money with flashy effects or easy sequels and...

MPAA Rating: R for violence, pervasive language, and drug content.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Writer: Tim Blake Nelson
Cast: Edward Norton; Susan Sarandon; Richard Dreyfuss
Genre: Comedy | Crime
Memorable Movie Quote: "Your choice is to expand your business, or we shut you down entirely."
Release Date: No wide theatrical release.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 12, 2010.

MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language.
Runtime: 95 mins.
Director: Samuel Bayer
Writer: Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley; Rooney Mara; Katie Cassidy
Tagline: Never Sleep Again.
Genre: Horror
Memorable Movie Quote: "Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet! "
Release Date: April 30, 2010
DVD Release Date: October 5, 2010
Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

MPAA Rating: R for graphic war violence, language and some sexuality.
Director: David O. Russell
Writer: David O. Russell
Cast: Mark Wahlberg; George Clooney; Ice Cube; Spike Jonze
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "Walter, just stand outside so Chief can translate my Iraqi ass map... okay?"
Release Date: October 1, 1999.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 12, 2010.

At the ripe age of 80, director Clint Eastwood finally gives his audience – after a landmark career of numerous appearances in front of the camera and 31 behind it - some thoughts on what lies beyond this mortal coil in his latest feature...

MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language.
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: William Davies
Cast: Gerard Butler; Craig Ferguson; America Ferrera
Genre: Animated; Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "Your butts are getting bigger! We thought you were a dragon!"
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Blu-ray Release Date: October 15, 2010.

After the breakthrough success of last year’s indie Paranormal Activity, it was a no-brainer that Paramount Pictures would see fit to develop a quick sequel.  The question on everyone’s mind was “how exactly does...

Would you give up your life to save someone else’s? What if that “someone else” were your brother? That’s the burning dilemma behind Conviction, the true-life story of how a woman spent 18 years putting herself...

MPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola; John Milius
Cast: Marlon Brando; Martin Sheen; Robert Duvall
Genre: War | Drama
Memorable Movie Quote: "We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig... cow after cow... village after village... army after army.."
Release Date: August 15, 1979
Blu-ray Release Date: October 19, 2010.

Director: Kevin Greutert
Writer: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
Cast: Tobin Bell; Betsy Russell; Costas Mandylor

Well, it isn’t a prequel, but if you seriously think that everything has been leading up to the wooden acting that plagues Saw 3D, then you are sadly mistaken.  Sure, you’ll get answers.  You’ll get gore.  The 3D - while largely silly - isn’t a complete loss either.  Hell, you even get Cary Elwes again…just don’t expect much in the way of Jigsaw.  Too bad.  He’s been part of the fun of the Saw franchise chronology because – for John Kramer – death was certainly not the end, but his lessoning appearance in the series is dully noted in this the supposed final installment.  Yet, in spite of it all, Saw 3D does have its moments of cutting-edge fun, just not enough to keep the franchise propelling itself forward.

MPAA Rating: PG for some action, sensuality, and language.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Cast: Crispin Glover; Michael J. Fox; Christopher Lloyd
Genre: Sci-fi | Adventure | Family
Memorable Movie Quote: "The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?"
Blu-ray Release Date: October 26, 2010.

Its script may be credited to four names, but, let’s be honest, Due Date is simply a weak update of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles – without the heart and charm of John Hughes – and, yes, even that film was a minor disappointment...

Tired of the Megamind marketing blitz that’s been saturating the TV airwaves and Internet digital bits for the better part of the last eight months? From partnering on Justin Bieber concerts to sponsoring the baseball World Series...

MPAA Rating: R for sequences of strong bloody violence, grisly images and language.
Director: Neil Marshall
Writer: Neil Marshall
Cast: Michael Fassbender; Dave Legeno; Axelle Carolyn
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "My name is Quintus Dias, I am a soldier of Rome, and this neither the beginning nor the end of my story."
Release Date: No wide theatrical release
Blu-ray Release Date: November 2, 2010.

MPAA Rating: This title not rated by the MPAA
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Harry Brown and Charles Lederer
Cast: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, Frank Sinatra, Joey Bishop
Genre: Comedy | Crime
Memorable Movie Quote: "Because one December, every time I picked up the 'phone they sent me out into the snow to play with my friends. That was at the Bulge."
Release Date: August 10, 1960
Own it on Blu-ray: November 9, 2010.

MPAA Rating: This title not rated by the MPAA. TV-PG. This program contains language that may not be appropriate for all viewers. Viewers' discretion is advised.
Director: Maro Chermayeff, Jeffrey Dupre
Genre: Television | Documentary
Memorable Movie Quote: "Load out. Load in. 16-20 hours a day."
Release Date: Television Premier November 10, 2010
Blu-ray Release Date: November 9, 2010.

MPAA Rating: This title not rated by the MPAA
Creator: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Elizabeth Mitchell; Morris Chestnut; Joel Gretsch
Genre: Sci-fi | Television
Official Site: www.vtvondvd.com
Memorable Quote: "To lose someone so close... it's devastating"
Own it on Blu-ray: November 2, 2010
V: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

MPAA Rating: PG for some mild rude humor and language.
Director: Jon Favreau
Writer: David Berenbaum
Cast: Will Ferrell; James Caan; Mary Steenbergen
Genre: Comedy | Family | Holiday
Official Site: www.warnerblu.com
Memorable Quote: "You're a cotton-headed ninny-muggins"
Tagline: This holiday, discover your inner elf.
Release Date: November 7, 2003
Own it on Blu-ray: October 26, 2010
Elf (Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

There’s no hiding the fact that Morning Glory holds its fair share of debt to the scripted highs of James Brooks’ Broadcast News from 1987. In fact, one can suggest that the characters that make up the journalistically-minded ensemble are entirely...