DVD Reviews

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

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

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  ...

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  ...

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 ...

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

The murder mystery format turns sleazy in this exploitation offering from genre-hopping director Sergio Martino.  The Italians have always had an eye for exposing skin and mixing beauty with ...

MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use.
Director: Robert Rodriguez; Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Robert Rodriguez; Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Danny Trejo; Rose McGowen; Josh Brolin
Genre: Action | Horror | Thriller
Memorable Movie Quote: "White meat, dark meat. All will be carved. THANKSGIVING."
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Blu-ray Release Date: October 5, 2010.

David Gordon Green’s The Sitter is essentially an R-rated retooling of Chris Columbus’s Adventures in Babysitting from 1987.  The kids are edgier, situations are shamefully more homophobic, and, opening with a scene of oral sex, it’s completely unafraid...

Let’s face it. Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn aren’t getting any younger and both are in serious need of a hit. Their collective dry spell is a bit overlong and both are capable comedians… but their guaranteed shtick gets a bit tiresome. One talks too much ...

21 Jump Street is an unexpectedly weird and wild ride down the nostalgic turnpike.  Full of expected vulgarity, explosive action beats, and sudden turns full of sweetness and character only to slam into a wall of genuine weirdness, it’s a movie that is hard to describe and that, ...

MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual material.
Director: Jay and Mark Duplass
Writer:Jay and Mark Duplass
Cast: Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, Catherine Keener, Marisa Tomei
Genre: Comedy
Memorable Movie Quote: "My ex-wife's getting remarried, but I'm OK with it."
Release Date: July 2, 2010 (wide)
DVD Release Date: December 21, 2010

The Rite isn’t exactly the horror experience it is being marketed as.  It isn’t exactly all that good either.  While it has its fair share of plagues and puking and haunted houses, horror aficionados should steer clear.  While adding absolutely...

Rated: PG-13 for thematic material, including intense/frightening sequences and disturbing images.
Runtime: 97 mins.
Director: Scott Derrickson
Writer: Paul Harris Boardman & Scott Derrickson
Cast: Tom Wilkinson; Laura Linney; Jennifer Carpenter
Tagline: What Happened to Emily?
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Genre: Drama/Horror
Studio: Screen Gems, Inc
Memorable Quote: "I don't care about my reputation. What I care about is telling Emily Rose's story."

Rated: PG for some action/peril, mild language and brief smoking.
Runtime: 112. mins.
Director: Jay Russell
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay); Dick King-Smith (book)
Cast: Ben Chaplin; Bruce Allpress; Eddie Campbell; Peter Corrigan ... complete cast
Tagline: Every big secret starts small.
Genre: Adventure/ Family/Fantasy
Memorable Quote: "Don't worry. I'll take care of you" ... more quotes
Release Date: December 25, 2007
DVD Release Date: April 8, 2008

When it was first announced that Piranha, the 1978 original spoof of Jaws, which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible groan was heard from the masses.  This would never work so...

One of the few genres of film that this reviewer has never been able to stomach too easily is the romantic comedy. Not because he doesn’t like to see people fall in love, then misstep, find their way back from disaster, and make it in the end, but because ...

The bookish virgin.  Two selfish friends.  The obsessed psychiatrist.  A babysitting job on October 31^st.  And The Shape.  Halloween, masterfully directed by John Carpenter, is considered – some 35 years after its release – a classic film of sound and vision ...

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, brief language, some sexuality and drug content.
Runtime: 145 mins.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Scott Frank
Cast: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
Genre: Action | Sci-fi
Memorable Movie Quote: "Fi Most memorable quote: "You're under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks."
Release Date: June 21, 2002
DVD Release Date: April 10, 2010

Rated: R for language.
Runtime: 93 mins.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer: Dave Kajganich (screenplay); Jack Finney (novel)
Cast: Nicole Kidman; Daniel Craig; Jeremy Northam.
Tagline: Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep.
Genre: Action / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Memorable Quote: "We'll watch over each other, make sure we don't fall asleep."
Release Date: August 17, 2007

Rated: PG-13 for violence, language, horror images, slime and gore.
Runtime: 120 mins.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson (story) and (screenplay)
Cast: Sanaa Lathan; Raoul Bova; Lance Henriksen....complete cast
Genre: Horror/Thriller/Action
Tagline: Whoever wins... We lose.
Memorable Quote: "You ugly son of a bitch!"

Born from the pages of a Texas Monthly magazine article, Bernie tells the story of gregarious assistant funeral home director Bernhardt Tiede (Jack Black) and wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). But more than it is the tale of the curiously improbable ...

With Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, director Lasse Hallström and writer Simon Beaufoy cast a wide net for offbeat, quirk and whimsy. And while the odd title may suggest they’re on the right track, clearly something was lost in the adaptation from comic ...

They populate the TV airwaves like tenement cockroaches, but it’s been a while since a sharp legal thriller has graced the big screen… and even longer since Matthew McConaughey has done anything worth...

Rated: R for strong graphic violence and some language.
Runtime: 122 mins.
Director: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen from a novel by Cormac McCarthy.
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones; Javier Bardem; Josh Brolin; Woody Harrelson ... complete cast
Tagline: There Are No Clean Getaways
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller/Western
Memorable Quote: "1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it." ... more quotes
Release Date: November 9, 2007

John Wayne who?  Seriously.  My father might have raised me with a healthy smattering of Wayne films every Sunday afternoon until I was ten, but this film makes the Rooster Cogburn of my youth simply fade into the sunset. It seems the Coen ...

Rated: R for strong violent content, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Runtime: 103 mins.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Writer: Luc Besson
Cast: Jet Li; Morgan Freeman; Bob Hoskins; Kerry Condon... complete cast
Tagline: Serve No Master.
Genre: Thriller/Action/Drama
Memorable Quote: "sweet is good"

Riffing on Alfred Hitchcock’s one-take experiment with Rope, Silent House presents horror aficionados with a spellbinding tale of tension that works more often than it doesn’t during its “real” 88-minutes.  The crack-shot camera work is all hand-held ...

MPAA Rating: R for war violence and language.
Runtime: 131 mins.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Cast: Jeremy Renner; Anthony Mackie; Brian Geraghty; Guy Pearce
Tagline: The Hurt Locker.
Genre: War
Memorable Quote: "If I'm gonna die, wanna die comfortable"
Release Date: July 10, 2009
DVD Release Date: January12, 2010.
Distributor: Summit Entertainment

The steely-eyed no-nonsense action thrillers of writer/director John Flynn (Lock Up, Out for Justice) gets their start with cult favorite Rolling Thunder.  Suggesting this film is a classic of the genre is indeed an understatement.  Everything about this fierce gem ...