DVD Reviews

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 ...

Metallica Through the Never might be the best heavy metal concert I’ve never attended. Filled with explosive performances from a band still hard at work and a catalog of songs that won’t stop its assault on the ears, the 3-D concert is the IMAX experience that you won't ...

Perhaps Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) says it best because there literally is “no place to hide” from this nearly three-hour continuation of Peter Jackson’s overwrought three-picture adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s beloved pint-sized children’s book The Hobbit ...

How’s this for reaching into the cob-webbed bag of arcane source material and pulling out a shiny gem of a TV-to-movie adaptation? Mr. Peabody and Sherman comes from the beloved but largely-forgotten animated TV series Peabody’s Improbable History, that originally  ...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a serious slice of paranoid espionage. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), the puny kid transformed by Stark’s science into Captain America, returns to kick all kinds of ass in this resolute thriller that ties in nicely with the Marvel Cinematic  ...

Thank God for originality, even if it does make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Based off the short film Oculus Chapter 3: The Man with the Plan; Oculus, directed by Mike Flanagan (Absentia, Ghosts of Hamilton Street) creates an intriguing   ...

After the epidemic of remakes, reboots (or as the cynic might say, ‘we’ve milked this cow in its current incarnation as much as we can, so here’s a new version!), there is something truly ‘amazing’ in that these things continue to make astounding money. Batman, after a significant  ...

In a pleasant little case of art imitating life, filmmaker Jon Favreau leaves the world of big-budget extravaganzas to return to his indie roots with Chef, a film in which he stars, directs, and writes about a celebrated chef who exits his high profile job at a popular Los Angeles ...

Blazing Saddles, the penultimate western comedy, has been unseated by Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West. This take-no-prisoners comedic assault is both a farce of the western genre and of our consistently inconsistent human nature. Do not attempt  ...

Darker.  Bolder.  DreamWorks Animation corrects their sequel mistakes of the past and produces a heartwarming masterpiece of animation that holds up (and then some) to its predecessor.  Mounting a second installment to a commercial and a critical darling must have ...

Does Hollywood even recognize and appreciate the stinging jabs we movie-going public take at the industry for its absurd need to build a franchise out of any movie that makes a buck. Does it laugh at its own doings when a film’s title is longer to the right of the colon than  ...