“Sometimes, dead is better.” In 1989 Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” became a hit box-office attraction. It could hardly have been otherwise, given that so many of the author’s other works had already done so well adapted for the screen, things…
Perhaps because of the 2012 Presidential election season, Warner Bros. released two movies on Blu-ray dealing with the U.S. Presidency: “The American President,” the Rob Reiner film with Michael Douglas and Annette Bening (1995), and the film under review here,…
“Meet me at Omar’s. Be ready for me. I’m going after that truck.” “How?” “I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go!” And, lo, the skies did open and there burst forth on Blu-ray “The Lord of the…
Note: In the following Blu-ray review, John Puccio and Justin Cleveland provide their opinions of the film, with John also writing up the Video, Audio, Extras, and Parting Thoughts. The Film According to John: James Cameron’s 1997 epic “Titanic” is…
“I believe you call it love.” –September “Existence. Quantum entanglement. Philosopher’s Stone. Psychometry. Viral therapy. Ethereal plane. Gravitons. Time paradox. Psychogenesis. Bilocation. Psychic surgery. Transgenics.” It honestly seems like only yesterday that my wife and I were looking forward to…
Now, wait a minute; I know what you’re going to ask: Didn’t New Line already release the extended versions of “The Lord of the Rings” to Blu-ray a year earlier? Yes, they did, in a beautiful, fifteen-disc, Blu-ray box set. …
For those folks who have Blu-ray players but somehow missed getting one or more of the four “Terminator” films in high-def, here they are in a big box set from Warner Bros. No, WB didn’t produce the first two films,…
If you’ve ever read a book by Nicholas Sparks or seen a movie adaptation of any of his works, you know the formula. Sparks is a romance writer who struck it big in the literary world with “The Notebook” and…
“For those about to rock, I salute you.” Note: In the following joint Blu-ray review both John and Tim provide their opinions of the film, with John also writing up the Video, Audio, Extras, and Parting Thoughts. The Film According…
“In loving memory of Kim Jong-il” I enjoyed Sacha Baron Cohen’s voice characterizations in the “Madagascar” cartoons and his performance as the station inspector in Martin Scorcese’s “Hugo.” I never cared as much for him left to his own devices,…