Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are certain trajectories that we expect rock ‘n’ roll stories to take. Of course, the most common are of young men dreaming big and going nowhere
Recommended Driving Miss Daisy Blu-ray Review Clickon an image to view a Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution DrivingMiss Daisy Read the entire review
We’re going to try and different approach this week to the DVD Shopping Bag. Rarely do I let my other duties infringe on this column. What the DVD Shopping Bag provides is a look at one title or perhaps a new released box set
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen shots used here are from the 2007 DVD edition, not the Blu-ray under review. Monte Hellman’s dazed, stoically gorgeous 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop is another one of those nuggets from the storied American cinema of the ’70s that easily proves what’s by now a commonplace among movie buffs — that it was a time when the frantic desperation of …
I heard about the 1,000 year DVD several years ago. I didn’t believe it it would ever work, but now I do
Highly Recommended Lightning Bug isn’t a horror flick, and yet it’s a film I’d bet many genre fans can relate to…those of us who grew up devouring Fangoria and GoreZone month in and month out, daydreaming about being the next Tom Savini or Rob Bottin. See, high school senior Green Graves (Bret Harrison) has a knack for creating gruesome monsters: doodling, sculpting, Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The easy chemistry between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pe a draws you into the lives of their characters – two LAPD officers who work a particularly rough part of South Central Los Angeles – and sells the gritty reality of David Ayer’s End of Watch , a particularly resonant cop drama that makes first …
Rent It Hollywood’s [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] hottest horror director is about to learn the true meaning of terror!!!!! Read the entire review
LAS VEGAS–Seven years after the Blu-ray Disc Association announced at CES that it had completed the technical specification for the format, the Blu-ray format continues to forge ahead—and its proponents must ponder its future when 4K HDTV televisions are all the rage here at this week’s CES. The first Blu-ray player was priced at $1000 from Samsung, but you can now buy a Blu-ray player for about …