DVD Reviews

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality.
Runtime: 122 mins.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay); Stephenie Meyer (novel)
Cast: Kristen Stewart; Robert Pattinson; Billy Burke ... complete cast
Tagline: When you can live forever what do you live for?
Genre: Action | Horror
Memorable Quote: "What did you expect? Coffins and dungeons and moats? " ... more quotes
Release Date: November 21, 2008
DVD Release Date: March 17, 2009

Saving the best for the last, director Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg nicely wrap up their “Cornetto” trilogy with The World’s End.  It is a movie that is refreshing and hilarious and – shockingly enough – full of heart.  If you thought Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz was ...

Rated: Rated PG-13 for some sex-related comments.
Runtime: 108 mins.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Writer: Catherine Johnson
Cast: Amanda Seyfried; Stellan Skarsgard; Pierce Brosnan; Meryl Streep ... complete cast
Tagline: A mother. A daughter. Three possible fathers. Take a trip down the aisle you'll never forget.
Genre: Musical/Comedy
Memorable Quote: "Last time I saw your mother she said she never wanted to see me again." ... more quotes
Release Date: July 18, 2008
DVD Release Date: December 16, 2008

Rated: for thematic elements and some mild language.
Runtime: 97 mins.
Director: Joe Camp
Writer: Joe Camp
Cast: Chris Kendrick; Nick Whitaker; Christy Summerhays ....complete cast
Genre: Family/Drama
Tagline: Rules are Made to be Housebroken.
Memorable Quote: "Why do you stay with him? He doesn't love you"

A Fistful of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

MGM Home Video has made available on sparkling Blu-ray, a classic spaghetti western trilogy starring Clint Eastwood.

Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo

MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA
Runtime: 161 mins.
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: Luciano Vincenzoni & Sergio Leone
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach
Tagline: They formed an alliance of hate to steal a fortune in dead man's gold.
Genre: Western
Memorable Quote: "Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We're gonna have to earn it. "
Release Date: December 29, 1967
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: May 11, 2010

Per un pugno di dollari

MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA
Runtime: 99 mins.
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: A. Bonzzoni & Víctor Andrés Catena
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch
Tagline: This short cigar belongs to a man with no name. This long gun belongs to a man with no name. This poncho belongs to a man with no name. He's going to trigger a whole new style in adventure.
Genre: Western
Memorable Quote: "When a man's got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace. "
Release Date: January 18, 1967
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: May 11, 2010

Per qualche dollaro in più

MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA
Runtime: 132 mins.
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: Sergio Leone and Fulvio Morsella
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef
Tagline: The man with no name is back... The man in black is waiting! As if one wasn't enough . . . as if death needed a double!.
Genre: Western
Memorable Quote: "No, old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now."
Release Date: May 10, 1967
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: May 11, 2010

With Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro has turned in an almost perfect summer blockbuster.  It's been hyped to death and it might not live up to the hype - but it is a whole lot of fun.  And in a summer that has not been full of it at the box office, that surely counts ...

Ah, the mystique of beauty and youth. Woody Allen returns to his existential comedy roots and finds a new leading lady in the muse of the always remarkable Emma Stone with Magic in the Moonlight, his 46^th film. You can think whatever you want to think about him. Allen doesn’t care ...

It’s time to get on the Wingard/Barrett bandwagon. If you missed last year’s You’re Next, a twisty-turny little revisit to the home-invasion slasher genre, then that’s a good place for you to start. The director/writer team has been on quite a roll with segments in V/H/S,  ...

SNL alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader reteam for Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins, a meaty little love story with sibling rivalry and family dysfunction as its central themes.  You’d be forgiven for expecting this to be a riotous comedy. After all, it does star one of ...

The little television series that could, Showcase’s Continuum, returns to Blu-ray via Universal Studios Home Entertainment and a 3-disc Season Three set. The series is broadcast here in the United States on Syfy and, well, let’s not kid ourselves, you still aren’t  ...

Only one part of
Psycho
may be underrated

: the stylized intro with its opening credits. Horizontal and vertical lines rush across the screen. Words appear cut apart, split into stripes until they line up and right themselves. They foreshadow the splitting of characters’ psyches  ...

Rated: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor.
Runtime: 90 mins.
Director: C.B. Harding
Writer: Bear Aderhold & Tom Sullivan
Cast: Michael Edward Rose; Glenn Morshower; Larry the Cable Guy ... complete cast
Tagline: G.I. Joke.
Genre: war/comedy
Memorable Quote: "We are in the most dangerous city in the world, except maybe for Detroit."
Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 2007
DVD Release Date: September 4, 2007

In his characteristic way of illustrating the sharp contrasts of flawed people dealing with the most difficult situations, Alexander Payne adapts the Kaui Hart Hemmings novel, The Descendants by emphasizing the comical, devastating, and revealing moments ...

Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a gripping and forgotten classic of the film noir era.  Lang, being one of the several German filmmakers that helped shaped and mold and experiment with the film medium, arrived in Hollywood in the late 1930s, but most of his post-silent ...

Ever have that crazy dream – nightmare really, and usually recurring – of being asked to give a live presentation for which you’re completely unprepared? Or, what about the one where you have to take a final exam...

Apparently, Back to the Future wasn’t all that unique of a time travelling movie.  I’m sure producer Michael Nesmith (of The Monkees) and director William Dear, the co-creators of the 1982 sci-fi/western Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann in which a ...

For a film with virtually no plot, little scripted dialogue, and only the most basic of character sketches, Like Crazy manages to say more about true love than even the grandest of classic love stories. That’s because Like Crazy isn’t ...

MPAA Rating: NR - Not rated.
Director: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Writer: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Genre: Documentary | Crime
Tagline: It's frightening to think they did it. It's terrifying to think they didn't
Memorable Movie Quote: "I hate these boys and the mothers who bore them."
Release Date: January 1996 (Sundance Film Festival)
Blu-ray Release Date: October 25, 2005.

Own it on DVD: November 11, 2008
Distributor: Warner Home Video
Official Site: www.warnerbros.com
None of the films have been rated by the MPAA
Number of Discs: 3
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Rated: R for graphic battle sequences throughout, some sexuality and nudity.
Runtime: 117 mins.
Director: Zack Snyder
Writer: Zack Snyder & Kurt Johnstad
Cast: Gerard Butler; Lena Headey; Dominic West; David Wenham
Tagline: Prepare for Glory
Genre: Action / Adventure / War
Memorable Quote: Spartans! Enjoy your breakfast, for tonight we dine in Hell!
Release Date: March 9, 2007

Rated: R for language, some violence and sexual content.
Runtime: 126 mins.
Director: Allen Coulter
Writer: Paul Bernbaum
Cast: Adrien Brody; Diane Lane; Ben Affleck; Bob Hoskins ... complete cast
Tagline: Living in Holly wood can make you famous. Dying in Hollywood can make you a legend.
Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery
Memorable Quote: "Since when do suicides miss twice and start over?"
Release Date: September 8, 2006
Studio: Focus Features

Ask any everyday law abiding person what they would do to a person who harmed or sexually abused their child, and I’m sure you would hear multitudes of graphic responses somewhat out of character. ‘I would kill them’, ‘tear their balls off and shove them ...

I’ll make this easy on you.  Exploitation films simply do not get much better than with Nude Nuns with Big Guns.  From the title to the actual content, this film explodes with skin, violence, and sex, sex, sex.  This isn’t your typical movie and for the easily offended, well, you should probably ...

It’s hard to conceive in this era of remake-itus that some re-dos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing ...

Rated: PG for crude humor and some language.
Runtime: 107 mins.
Director: David Bowers; Sam Fell
Writer: Sam Fell and Peter Lord
Cast: Kate Winslet; Hugh Jackman; Ian McKellen; Andy Serkis; Bill Nighy
Tagline: Someone's Going Down
Memorable Quote: "Have you seen my dad?"
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Genre: Animation/Comedy
Studio: Paramount/Dreamworks

Few events offer as much potential for comedic effect as a girl’s wedding day. Put a group of overbearing women (who don’t know one another) together with a bitchy, on-edge bride expecting the planets to align...

Finally, a serious take on the modern day vampire from a team of Americans arrives.  Stake Land, directed by Jim Mickle, is an unsettling and atmospheric post-apocalyptic thriller.  Think The Road with fangs and lots and lots of blood and you’ll understand ...