Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Solid voice talent and animation raise The Croods slightly above similar mid-tier animated flicks. Nowhere near as polished as the best efforts from Disney and Pixar, The Croods is still an appealing family adventure from DreamWorks Animation.
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series Coming off its sixth year on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, Robot Chicken arrives on Blu Ray with its herky-jerky satirical mojo basically intact.
Rent It THE FILM: The United States government has nearly eliminated crime and unemployment by implementing an annual 12-hour “purge,” during which time all crime is legal. This is a ridiculous yet intriguing premise for a film, and it begs a number of questions about human nature and social interaction.
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Recommended The Movie: Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle, 2013’s Jug Face is a twisted tale of backwoods horror spun through a narrative that blends the worst of superstition and religion with a sort of inbred hillbilly-ish setting to create something unexpectedly unique. If you look at the cover art, it looks like maybe this is some sort of possession movie, they seem semi-popular these days …
Rent It The Movie: Danish thriller A Hijacking arrives on Blu Ray closely aligned with the theatrical release of Tom Hanks’ docudrama Captain Phillips . Coincidence? Perhaps Magnolia was hoping to capitalize on some of the hype from the Hanks film, but this one presents a darker, less dynamic take on the rash of ocean hijackings off the coast of Somalia soaking up the headlines in recent years …
“The Conjuring” is out just in time for Halloween
Highly Recommended The Movie: Elijah Wood is not Joe Spinell. Nobody, except Joe Spinell, is Joe Spinell
Rent It The front cover’s tagline is “He’s feeling renewed.” Actually, “Anger Management” already had a deal from the get-go to have about 100 episodes produced, so that feeling isn’t such a big deal. Anyways, Charlie Sheen’s sitcom has had its second season released on Blu-Ray. A brief note at the end of each episode states that it is based on the movie of the same name, but does not show any …
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: Claudette Colbert grins and simpers throughout Guest Wife , a bubbly 1945 comedy in which she plays a woman who gets into a heap of trouble pretending to be her husband’s best friend’s wife (got that?).