With the third “Men in Black” movie landing in theaters May 25, fans get to enjoy high-definition versions of the first two films in the Blu-ray format, with a handful of multimedia games to refresh the sci-fi experience. Based on the Malibu Comics series from back in the early 1990s, …
Highly Recommended Don Juan Demarco Review Iwanted to begin thisreview with a slant on how Don Juan Demarco is that rareexception tothe rule; a genuinely surprising and satisfying romantic comedy. Butit’s tooaffecting and whimsical to merely be referred to alongside the likes ofschlocklike Fool’s Gold (2008), Alex and Emma (2003), and FailuretoLaunch (2006). Okay, so I technically just did …
Recommended The Movie: Seeing Meryl Streep win the Academy Award for her work in The Iron Lady was nice to witness, but lost in the tidal wave of praise for that performance was the fact that Glenn Close had returned for another round of critical acclaim, earning her sixth Oscar nomination for her work in Albert Nobbs . And while Streep had not won her second Oscar in a while, Close has yet to …
Rent It The movie’s called Underworld: Awakening and all that, so why does it keep putting me to sleep? That’s kind of the weird thing about this fourth — fourth! — installment in the vampires-in-this-corner-werewolves-in-the-other franchise. If you asked me to rattle off a laundry list of all the stuff Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. An old-fashioned, progressive social-problem film, Mario Monicelli’s energetic, down-to-earth 1963 strike drama The Organizer combines the lyrical beauty of socialist realism with a Neorealist tough-mindedness of sensibility, avoiding the much-maligned slack …
Rent It As part of its 100th Anniversary Collector’s Series of Blu-ray titles, Universal is releasing Buck Privates (1941), Abbott & Costello’s first starring feature, and the movie that their fueled their rocket-like ascent to the top of the box office heap in the early-1940s. Spurred by the peacetime draft in the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Buck Privates is a truly …
Highly Recommended The Movie: In a straightforward and simple way, the cover of the Pariah Blu-ray case includes the definitions for the word that the film uses as its title. And while the definitions like “outcast” and “rejected member of society” may sound overdramatic at first, one could make the case that such interpretations are not hard to get to, and the film makes a strong case as to why …
Highly Recommended Madonna: Truth or Dare Blu-ray Review Madonna is one of the most well lovedmusic acts in the history of pop music. Her albums continue to top thebillboardsales charts with each release
Highly Recommended The Ring Blu-ray Review Have you heard the story of the haunted videotape? Peoplesay that it carries a curse with it. The idea might sound silly to someyoungeraudiences today, but The Ring introduced a terrifying concept: after viewing a video with frighteningandseemingly random images it led to a phone call with an ominous andforebodingvoice on the other end of the line.
Highly Recommended One of the great things about DVD and now the Blu-ray format is how, occasionally, heretofore long-unseen movies turn out to be a lot better than their terrible reputations would suggest, diamonds in the rough, as it were. This proved true, for instance, when in 2006 Fox released to DVD their Laurel & Hardy movies from the 1940s, pictures long regarded as unfunny, painful …