DVD Reviews

As the FBI warning flittered across my television screen, I wondered just what impact this movie would have upon me.  I had heard the stories; heard just how maddening the documentary was; heard just how insane it drove folks with...

Positioning itself in a believable world where the apocalypse is brought about by soulless zombies, AMC’s The Walking Dead took cable television by storm last year.  The show juggled itself between moments of hard-hitting violence...

Director Todd Phillips has been around the movie-making track for quite some time now, and, after the monster success of The Hangover, he has been in the enviable position of riding that gravy train with biscuit wheels, where...

Written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Paul sucks upon the Spielberg/Lucas tit until all the milk and laughs have run dry – and then it keeps on sucking for good measure.  Amusing although a little too long, there’s no denying that Paul is a geeked-out...

Coming straight out of another era of filmmaking, Sharktopus begs to ask the tough question that Hollywood won’t.  What’s wrong with a slice of sci-fi cheese?  If you ask famed producer of all things mighty and...

The film opens upon a closed stage curtain.  Slowly, the dull curtain opens to reveal a lone figure on its dusky stage.  With back to the audience, Sucker Punch – hiding what it truly is - begins its dreamlike trance with a web of slow-motion...

As an actor, Thomas McCarthy has gone largely unrecognized, toiling away in a long laundry list of generic character roles that’s no fewer than two or three scroll depths on IMDB: Meet the Parents, Little Fockers, The Wire, Law & Order, etc. We...

I would watch a Clint Eastwood film about grass growing. The man is just that good. Not every film of the now 31 film catalogue is a winner by any stretch, but whether an Oscar winner, a fan favourite, or a miss—at least inasmuch that Eastwood...

While this reviewer has never limited his exposure to any type film because of age, genre, language, topic—anything you could think of that can sometimes put one off at first glance—I, like anyone else have my preferences. At the bottom of...

Source Code proves that director Duncan Jones and his particular brand of minimalist sci-fi is not the product of flash-in-the-pan gimmickry.  Jones, in his second movie out of the gate, proves that he absolutely deserves to stand alongside...

Putting aside the bone-splitting and gory implements of the Saw franchise, those same writers give their audience the most terrifying thing of all with Insidious: the unknown. Since comparisons will be made by those in...

Disney’s 50^th animated feature, Tangled, really wants to be ranked with their very best.  While it has its moments of hilarity and sparkling computer animation, the story is a bit of a soulless journey...

Dario Argento calls this film his most sincere.  Fans of Argento call it his most incomprehensible.  Inferno is both.  Highly charged with a rich atmosphere and a poor sense of narrative structure, the film...

Even if you have never seen director Richard Fleischer’s Soylent Green from 1973, you know its ending. Quoted in everything from television’s Barney Miller to the mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, the...

Danny McBride is my knight in shining armor. His comedic chops and loopy characters, always with their undeserved swagger, can rescue me from any prolonged mood of supernatural dourness...

Once upon a time, in the frozen forests of Finland, there lived away from any certain village a little feral girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her father was excessively fond of her...

Christopher Nolan claims his Batman trilogy will do something a superhero franchise has never done before: definitively end the story. It’s a very clever approach and one that will subtly...

Connecting more with the anguish and anxiety of age rather than the concerns a child might feel, The Incredibles flexes its muscles as Pixar’s grand attempt (an experiment of sorts that led...

Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is no man’s hero.  He’s a dark and harrowing beast of a man; lonely in his cave-like taxi and lonelier still in a crowd of people.  His frustration as a Vietnam veteran and as an American is a palpable one ...

Entering into the ever-changing world of twitter and facebook status updates must be a hard task to accomplish for a 90s-based movie franchise. Scream made its mark back in 1996 with some clever lines concerning horror films and ...

There’s no denying the intelligence of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. nor is there any denying of the film’s passion toward the subject of human responsibility toward technology. The subject broached isn’t...

Historically accurate, supremely relevant, and yet politically polarizing, The Conspirator is the first feature film to come from Joe Rickett’s newly formed American Film Company, whose aim is to produce engaging, authentic films...

I wish every family reunion could be this weirdly exciting. They aren’t. There’s a reason most people groan at the very thought of reunions, yet most of us don’t imagine the horror of it all. Enter writer/director Robert O’Hara and his...

From beneath the super-hero movie flotsam has arisen a sub-genre of sorts. One that explores what might happen when ordinary Joe suits up to turn the tables on his intimidators. Though last year’s critically acclaimed Kick-Ass ...

Who is Johnny Marco? The world knows him as a famous Hollywood celebrity, but he himself can’t pin down his own being. Perhaps it’s the drugs, the alcohol, the woman, and the schedule that has numbed...

When a successful franchise hits film number five, it’s time to pay it some well-earned attention. Finally graduating from the street racing culture, Fast Five, reinvigorated by a return of nearly all the cast members involved in the series...

There are so many ways in which a modern movie about a hammer-wielding god from Old Norse mythology could fail.  Oh, so many ways.  Thankfully, under the kinetically skilled direction of Shakespearean wonder-kid Kenneth Branagh...

It’s unfortunate that Mel Gibson gives what many will hail as the performance of his career inside Jodie Foster’s grossly uneven handling of The Beaver.  The film is a disturbing look at adult depression and the consequences...

It’s a bit ironic that in theaters filled with glistening comic book heroes embroiled in clearly defined battles of good versus evil, the romantic comedy counter-program of choice, Something Borrowed, drags us into a murky alternate...

Co-directors Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow’s The Dorm That Dripped Blood aka Death Dorm aka Pranks was a minor little horror gem from 1982.  Perhaps best known for launching actress Daphne Zuniga’s career, the film was...