Recommended THE FILM: After the monstrous success of his first Transformers trilogy, Hollywood outlaw Michael Bay parted ways with star Shia Labeouf and began a new chapter in his franchise, dialing back the explosive action and addressing the pacing and character development issues that plagued the three earlier films. Just kidding! Transformers: Age of Extinction delivers the Bay-hem in spades …
Recommended The Movie: Gary Cooper stars in 1951's sort-of-western (southeastern?) Distant Drums , an independently produced action thriller that plops a small group of soldiers in the middle of the Florida Everglades during the Second Seminole War. Forced to cope with the harsh swamp, while dodging hungry gators and murderous Seminoles, the soldiers trudge their way back to their ship after …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I try to refrain from calling a movie “The Next…” something when writing these reviews
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jeremy Gardner's post-apocalyptic The Battery is a good movie without qualifiers, but it is a pretty great movie when you consider the budget is only $6,000.
Highly Recommended The Show: The Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele is heading into its triumphant fourth season, and so (much more quickly than they did with seasons 1 & 2 ) the cable network has put out another spotless-looking Blu-ray for the show's excellent 13-episode third season. Though the package is a little lighter on bonus features than previous releases, the main episodes are …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Paul Haggis has struggled to repeat the success he had with ensemble drama Crash , which won the Academy Award for the best picture of 2005.
Highly Recommended The Series: While Starz released the four different storylines of their smash hit series Spartacus individually on Blu-ray and DVD over the past few years, they've now assembled all of that material into one Complete Series boxed set release. And just to drive collector types crazy, there are some exclusive extra features included in this set that aren't available on those …
Recommended Looking at the Blu-ray cover for Last Passenger , one might feel bad for Dougray Scott.
Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. When a noble lord named Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) is forced out of his castle, he turns to his army, led by Sergeant Hawkwood (Jack Thompson), to help him get it back.
Recommended Stagefright: Michelle Soavi's Stagefright , perennial also-ran of Italian horror, makes its Blu-ray debut, courtesy of the fine folks at Blue Underground, those who won't rest until they've gotten us all up to date on everything exploitation. Soavi's whodunit slasher opus trades heavily on atmosphere to deliver some gory goods and lots of stylish tension.