Rent It In 10 Words or Less Back on Blu, empty on extras Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Monster Squad , Team-Up Flicks, ’80s movies Likes: Kids Adventures, Stan Winston effects Dislikes: Rights issues Hates: Missing out on existing extras The Story So Far… The Monster Squad is an underrated late-’80s action/horror-comedy pitting a team of kid horror-movie buffs against the classic Universal …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Rarely does a modern horror film fill me with the kind of dread that makes pedestrian scenes feel ripe for a jolt
Highly Recommended The Movie: Also known as Army Of One , stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong’s feature film directorial debut is 1993’s Joshua Tree , a starring vehicle for the mighty Dolph Lundgren who made this film right after finishing up Universal Soldier . In the movie, Lundgren plays a truck driver named Wellman Santee. When we meet him, he and his partner Eddie (Ken Foree) are in the middle …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen grabs used here are from the standard-definition 2007 release , not the Blu-ray edition under review. To call Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1962 debut feature, Ivan’s Childhood , a “transitional” film implies something more compromised and less accomplished than it actually is.
What do you get when you make a movie in Utah? One of the things that you could get is a prize from the folks at Filmed in Utah (www.filmedinutah.com), who are gearing up to host the second an…
Skip It Click on all images in this review for 1080p screenshots. I was intrigued when I saw the trailer for Alex Cross some time ago, but there were two things about it that heightened my skepticism – First, the trailer went to extraordinary lengths to promote style over substance, and second but most certainly not least, Tyler Perry wasn’t reaching out to me in a way th..
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from an earlier DVD release if the film, not the Blu-ray edition under review.