DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

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...

While being a huge fan of the gore-tastic Laid to Rest, there’s a bit of disappointment that washed over me while watching its sequel.  Sure, the canvas is larger this time but…well, that’s just it…the canvas of action is larger and the claustrophobic atmosphere that ...

My love of film began as a four-year old in 1979 being taken to a small town drive-in, and, for the first time in my young life, being completely transfixed by what unfolded before me. Watching Star Wars was remarkably formative for me ...

It isn’t often that cancer is the subject of a young man’s sort of coming-of-age tale but, thankfully, we are all the better for it.  50/50 are the chances of one man’s survival rates against the rare type of aggressive cancer that he has in director ...

The Biblical themes and Shakespearean influences running throughout Disney’s masterpiece, The Lion King, are part of why this gem is more than a perfect film.  The rich music - songs by Elton John and Tim Rice ...

There are a million reasons to list explaining why Real Steel shouldn’t work.  Much will be made of the obvious comparisons between Over the Top and its many Rocky punching bag beats.  So much so, the consensus will be that Stallone should ...

There’s an early scene in The Ides of March in which Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling), the press spokesman for a Democratic presidential candidate confidently exclaims, “nothing bad happens when you’re doing the right ...

By gum by golly, if The Bad Seed doesn’t still crackle with classic horror intensity.  Directed by Mervyn LeRoy and nominated for four academy awards, this suburban thriller is as raw and refined as day one...

The coldness of director Matthijs van Heijningen’s remake/reboot/whatever you want to call it of The Thing isn’t due to its icy Norwegian camp setting (although, even the obvious is taken for granted here). It’s the paper-thin characters ...

Sporting the same rebellious spirit as the 1984 original, but with a rejuvenated vision, Footloose revisits the small southern town where loud music and dancing are banned to protect the innocent. This time though with Craig Brewer at the helm ...

As it deals with constant and continued isolation in Québec circa 1995, one shouldn’t be surprised that Good Neighbors never saw the light of the day here in the United States. Ah, let me count the strikes against thee! The city ...

Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, a classic tale of heroism, love, and friendship, gets yet another unnecessary big screen treatment. This time by Paul W. S. Anderson, known more for his Mortal Kombat, Soldier, and Death Race debacles ...

Boo!  Paramount is at it again; third straight year and third straight sequel to their and America’s seemingly favorite paranormal phenomenon.  While the creep factor is still solidly in place for the patient viewer, the answers provided by Paranormal Activity 3 to the ...

Maybe it took the wicked sting of Cop Out to bring writer/director Kevin Smith back into the world of low, low, super low budget independent film.  Not since Clerks has his writing and his directing fired on all thrusters ...

Pig-headed bastards will dismiss Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary – his first film in nineteen years - as wildly indulgent; a calliope of sounds and sights in a Puerto Rican trip that is ultimately not worth taking.  It will be as if they forgot all about his popular gin-soaked romp that was ...