DVD Reviews
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence.
Runtime: 113 mins.
Director: Chris Weitz
Writer: Philip Pullman (novel); Chris Weitz (screenplay)
Cast: Nicole Kidman; Daniel Craig; Freddie Highmore; Ian McKellen... complete cast
Tagline: It is the Alethiometer. It tells the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself.
Genre: Action/Adevnture/Family
Memorable Quote: "I will serve you in your campaign until you have a victory."... more quotes
Release Date: December 7, 2007
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and smoking.
Runtime: 120 mins.
Director: Rob Marchall
Writer: Michael Tolkin
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis; Penelope Cruz; Marion Cotillard; Judi Dench; Nicole Kidman
Tagline: Nine.
Genre: Musical
Memorable Quote: "Thank you for reminding me I'm not special. You don't even see what you do to me. Even the moments I think are ours, it's just... you working to get what you want. "
Release Date: December 25, 2009
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: May 4, 2010.
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: PG-13 for language, crude and sex-related humor, and some drug references.
Runtime: 95 mins.
Director: Frank Coraci
Writer: Steve Koren & Mark O'Keefe
Cast: Adam Sandler; Kate Beckinsale; Christopher Walken
Tagline: This Summer, Everything Will Click.
Memorable Quote: "Come down here and let me freshen your breath."
Release Date: June 23, 2006
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
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MPAA Rating: PG for language and some suggestive material. (edited for re-rating; originally PG-13 for brief strong language)
Runtime: 97 mins.
Director: Jonas Elmer
Writer: Ken Rance and C. Jay Cox
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr. Siobhan Fallon Hogan, J.K. Simmons, Mike O'Brien, James Durham, Hilary Carroll
Tagline: She's an executive on the move. But her career is taking her a little farther than she expected.
Genre: Comedy
Memorable Quote: "Awesome"
Release Date: January 30, 2009
DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009
Distributor: Lionsgate
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: R for sex and drug content, pervasive language and some violence.
Runtime: 114 mins.
Director: Craig Brewer
Writer: Craig Brewer
Cast: Terrence Dashon Howard; Anthony Anderson; Taryn Manning; Taraji P. Henson ... complete cast
Tagline: Everybody gotta have a dream.
Genre: Drama
Memorable Quote: "Whoop that trick!"
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- By Loron Hays
“What you are about to see - where it happened and how it happened - is true. Only the names have been changed” is the promise of The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Arkansas-native filmmaker Charles B. Pierce’s cult drive-in hit from 1976, and while the film delivers ...
Read more: The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Bringing a welcome change to the hill-meets-billy horror formula, writer/director Eli Craig’s Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil is a hilarious spoof of backwoods terror. After waiting some 40-plus years, we have a movie that celebrates the southerner as the unsung hero without ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Rated: Not rated by the MPAA
Runtime: 234 mins.
Director: Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Writer: Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Cast: Oswald the Rabbit; Walt Disney
Tagline: The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Genre: Animated/Comedy / Family
Memorable Quote:
DVD Release Date: December 11, 2007
Read more: Walt Disney Treasures - The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - DVD Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: R for strong violence, drug use, language and sexuality.
Runtime: 122 mins.
Director: Andrew Niccol
Writer: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Nicolas Cage; Bridget Moynahan; Jared Leto
Tagline: First rule of gunrunning: never get shot with your own merchandise.
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Genre: Drama/Crime
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- By Loron Hays
Runtime:118 mins.
Director: Desmond Davis
Writer: Beverley Cross
Cast: Laurence Olivier; Harry Hamlin; Ursula Andress
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "I was partial to tragedy in my youth. That was before experience taught me that life was tragical enough without my having to write about it. "
Release Date: June 12, 1981
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: May 25, 2010
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: PG-13 for intense thematic material, violence, sexuality, language and some drug references.
Runtime: 110 mins.
Director: Neil LaBute
Writer: David Loughery and Howard Korder
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson; Patrick Wilson; Kerry Washington ... complete cast
Tagline: What could be safer than living next to a cop?
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Memorable Quote: "You can listen to that noise all night long, but when you wake up in the morning, you'll still be white" ... more quotes
Release Date: September 19, 2008
DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
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- By Loron Hays
Much like he did with The Rocketeer, director Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park 3, October Sky, Hidalgo, The Wolfman) delivers a little slice of heroic Americana circa the 1940’s at the helm of Captain America: The First Avenger...
Read more: Captain America: The First Avenger - Blu-ray Movie Review
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent content, language and some nudity.
Runtime: 138 mins.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Laeta Kalogridis
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio; Ben Kingsley; Mark Ruffalo
Tagline: Someone is missing.
Genre: Drama | Mystery
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- By Frank Wilkins
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic material, language and a mild suggestive moment.
Runtime: 105 mins.
Director: tom Vaughan
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs.
Cast: Harrison Ford; Brendan Fraser; Keri Russell
Tagline: Don't hope for a miracle. Make one.
Genre: Drama
Memorable Quote: "I wish that we had a drug to treat Pompe, but we simply don't."
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Distributor: CBS Films
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: R for bloody violence and language.
Runtime: 101 mins.
Director: Breck Eisner
Writer: Scott Kosar and Ray Wright
Cast: Timothy Olyphant; Radha Mitchell; Joe Anderson ... complete cast
Tagline: Fear They Neighbor.
Genre: Horror
Memorable Movie Quote: "It's gonna be alright, we're gonna be ok. "
Release Date: February 26, 2010
DVD Release Date: June 29, 2010
Distributor: Overture Films
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- By Frank Wilkins
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material, some disturbing content and a scene of sensuality.
Runtime: 118 mins.
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Writer: Grant Nieporte
Cast: Will Smith; Rosario Dawson' Woody Harrelson ... complete cast
Tagline: even Names. Seven Strangers. One Secret.
Genre: Drama
Memorable Quote: "It is within my power to drastically change his cirumstances, but I don't want to give that man a gift he doesn't deserve. " ... more quotes
Release Date: December 19, 2008
DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009.
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- By Christopher Symonds
The Eighties provided us with a very fertile era of genre product. Adventure, Action, Science Fiction, and Horror alike—it was just a magic time when a slew of very talented filmmakers gave us a glut of ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Having grown up with horror movies from a really inappropriate age and finding them a delight, each and every one, there was one I’d been urged to watch and never got around to in my youth. My mother, as I got into my teens, kept telling me to ‘watch The Exorcist’, ...
Read more: The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
MPAA Rating: R for brutal violence including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language.
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Writer: Jonas Frykberg
Cast: Noomi Rapace; Michael Nyqvist
Genre: Thriller | drama | foreign
Memorable Movie Quote: "If you touch me again I'll kill you, understand?"
Release Date: July 9, 2010
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: October 26, 2010
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- By Loron Hays
Making an inferior and unnecessary sequel to a seriously solid film is nothing new to Hollywood. Producers and studios gamble all the time with sequels. Sometimes they win big and sometimes they lose. It comes with the territory when you have to rely on a ...
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- By Loron Hays
The cool creature effects of John Carl Buechler, Anthony Doublin and John Naulin (the mad geniuses behind TerrorVision and Re-Animator) receive the ultimate gory upgrade with Shout Factory’s stellar release of Stuart Gordon's From Beyond ...
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA
Director: John Huston
Writer:John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart; Walter Huston; Tim Holt
Genre: Classic | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "Nobody puts one over on Fred C. Dobbs."
Release Date: January 24, 1948
Blu-ray Release Date: October 5, 2010
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language.
Runtime: 121 mins.
Director: Alex Proyas
Writer: Ryne Douglas Pearson and Juliet Snowden
Cast: Nicolas Cage; Chandler Canterbury; Rose Byrne; D.G. Maloney
Tagline: Knowing is Everything...
Genre: Action Mystery | Sci-Fi
Memorable Quote: "What happens when the numbers run out? "
Release Date: March 20, 2009
DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity.
Runtime: 90 mins.
Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: Karen Leigh Hopkins (written by) & Jessie Nelson
Cast: Diane Keaton; Mandy Moore; Gabriel Macht; Lauren Graham
Tagline: She's just your normal, overprotective, overbearing, over-the-top mother.
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Memorable Quote: "Maybe you don't know what's best for your daughter."
Release Date: February 2, 2007
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: R for violence, language and some sexuality.
Runtime: 99 mins.
Director: Oxide Pang Chun; Danny Pang
Writer: Jason Richman
Cast: Nicolas Cage; Shahkrit Yamnarm; Charlie Yeung ... complete cast
Tagline: There's only one way out.
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Memorable Quote: "My job takes me to a lot of place. I sleep alone." ... more quotes
Release Date: September 5, 2008
DVD Release Date: January 6, 2008
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Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, thematic elements and language.
Runtime: 97 mins.
Director: Jon Kasdan
Writer: Jon Kasdan
Tagline: Get ready to fall
Cast: Adam Brody; JoBeth Williams; Elena Anaya ....complete cast
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Memorable Quote: "Well I think the answer to your question depends on if you have a learning disability or if you're just a moron"... more memorable quotes
Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 2007
DVD Release Date: October 30, 2007
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- By Frank Wilkins
Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne certainly don't seem to belong anywhere near the conversation of great cinematic comedy trios, but that oddest of casting mismatches makes a bawdy splash in the genre with Neighbors, a raunchy comedy of intergenerational warfare that's ...
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- By Loron Hays
Like the seven films before it, Muppet madness continues in The Muppets Most Wanted and while the film is less successful as its immediate predecessor it still leaves a smile on your face. The mopey, heart-on-the-sleeve theatrics of the previous film are quickly dispersed ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
First, let’s address the 500-pound gorilla in the room. No, we really didn’t need a Hollywood remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo given the Swedish trilogy that precedes it was only released last year. But it happened. And the fact remains that ...
Read more: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
MPAA Rating: This film has not been rated by the MPAA.
Runtime: 152 mins.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Writer: Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg
Cast: Michael Nyqvist; Noomi Rapace; Lena Andre ... complete cast
Tagline: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Genre: Crime | Mystery | Foreign
Release Date: April 2, 2010
DVD Release Date: Not yet available on DVD/Blu-ray
Distributor: Music Box Films
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