Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. David Dobkin's The Judge is the kind of stuffed-to-the-brim drama that draws critical guff
Recommended Directed and co-written by stand-up comic Bonnie Hunt, Return to Me (2000) feels several decades out of place…but for almost all the right reasons. Our story revolves around Bob Rueland (David Duchovny), an architect who—without venturing too far into spoiler territory—is separated from his wife and wading through unmarried life
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Although much of David Ayer's Fury takes place inside an M4 Sherman tank, the most compelling drama is outside its metal walls, in the smoldering German villages torched by a desperate Nazi army. Ayer assembles a strong cast – Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal – to man …
Rent It Despite a good cast, a great title, and an even better poster (see below), World for Ransom (1954) is a terrible Cold War thriller, though not without interest. It was Robert Aldrich's second film as director following Big Leaguer (1953), though quite possibly World for Ransom was made first and released after. Many consider World for Ransom a dry run for Aldrich's great nihilistic noir …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Anyone taking Luc Besson's Lucy to task for its junk science is missing the point. OK, so humans really do use more than ten percent of the brain's capacity, and no magic pill is going to increase that power tenfold
Highly Recommended The Movie: Daniel Day-Lewis won his first Academy Award for director Jim Sheridan's 1989 film, My Left Foot , portraying real-life artist and writer Christy Brown. As the title (taken from a memoir Brown wrote at age 22) hints, Brown is best known for painting and typing using only his left foot
Rent It Glance at the back of the Blu-ray package for Jessabelle , and a name might jump out at you: Robert Ben Garant. Comedy fans will recognize the name of comedian Thomas Lennon's long-time writing partner. Along with Kerri Kenney-Silver, Garant and Lennon created Comedy Central's “Reno 911!”, and are also the screenwriters behind the hugely successful Night at the Museum series
Recommended When Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 was released on video, it arrived alongside a new extended cut adding seven more minutes of footage. The implication was that more extended cuts would follow, but the Twilight Forever: Complete Saga Blu-ray set only contained the theatrical versions of the other four films
Rent It The good news, I guess, is that if you haven't gotten around to seeing The Conjuring , this feature-length spin-off stands completely on its own. A few lines vaguely reference the Warrens, the psychic ghostbusters from that earlier film who aren't even mentioned by name here in-dialogue, but that's about it.
Highly Recommended NOTES: The images included below are taken from promotional materials and do not represent the quality of the Blu-ray under review. Also, if you've already read my review of the DVD version of this release, you can skip down to the section on tech specs and bonus features.