DVD Reviews

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action.
Director: Mike Newell
Writer: Boaz Yakin and Doug Miro
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal; Ben Kingsley; Alfred Molina
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "Only the Dagger can unlock the Sands of Time. And there are those who would use this power to destroy the world.""
Release Date: May 28, 2010
DVD Release Date: Not yet announced

There’s an empty sort of spirituality that echoes throughout The Adjustment Bureau.  It isn’t concrete and, as a result, it certainly isn’t all that confident in what it’s trying to say about angels and...

Rated: G for general audiences
Runtime: 110 mins.
Director: Brad Bird
Writer: Brad Bird
Cast: Patton Oswalt; Ian Holm; Lou Romano; Brian Dennehy ... complete cast
Tagline: Dinner is served... Summer 2007
Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family
Memorable Quote: "I don't want to eat garbage, dad!" ... more quotes
Release Date: June 29, 2007

Rated: PG for some crude humor, suggestive content and swashbuckling action.
Runtime: 99 mins.
Director: Chris Miller; Raman Hui
Writer: Andrew Adamson; Howard Gould
Cast: Mike Meyers; Eddie Murphy; Cameron Diaz; Antonio Banderas
Tagline: Who's ready for Thirds?
Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family
Memorable Quote: "I feel all exposed and nasty! " ... more quotes
Release Date: May 18, 2007
DVD Release Date: November 13, 2007

1984 was quite the year for movies. Goonies, Gremlins, Splash, Police Academy, The Karate Kid, Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom, Footloose, Beverly Hills Cop, and the third Star Trek all hit cinemas that year. To be a standout in that pack of then future classics is no  ...

Runtime: 91 mins.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Tagline: Hang six Summer 2007.
Genre: Animated/Comedy / Family
Memorable Movie Quote: "She is the only one who can stop it... if she fails, no one survives." ... more quotes
Release Date: November 16, 1984
Blu-ray Release Date: April 13, 2010
Distributor: New Line Cinema

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

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.

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

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

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!"

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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’,  ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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