DVD Reviews

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

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."