ReviewsSep 14, 2014
DEAD WITHIN - DVD review
More a study in isolation than an end-of-days zombie thriller, “Dead Within” confidently ignores the usual tropes of living dead horror, looking instead at the question “What’s more lethal—beastie
ReviewsSep 13, 2014
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER - Blu-ray review
If**“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”**feels more like a ‘70s conspiracy thriller, that’s because it is one. Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely were heavily influenced by espiona
ReviewsSep 13, 2014
GHOST BIRD - DVD review
No wonder nobody likes skeptics. In 2004, an Arkansas man boating through the swamp spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker, a species thought to be extinct since the early part of the twentieth century.
ReviewsSep 10, 2014
TRUTH IN NUMBERS? EVERYTHING, ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA - DVD review
If filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill initially set out to present an “neutral” examination of Wikipedia they fortunately had the good sense to drop the pretense after speaking to the site's co-
ReviewsSep 08, 2014
STAR TREK: THE COMPENDIUM - Blu-ray review
If you really want to know how good a set “Star Trek: The Compendium” is, and whether or not it’s worth adding to your Blu-ray library, do what I did and show the two films to someone who has neve
ReviewsSep 03, 2014
THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY - Blu-ray review
Impactful. Aside from the “Ken Burns Effect”—the documentarian’s trademark slow pan and scan and pullback on a still photograph to give it cinematic life—you’d have to say that the distinguishing c
ReviewsSep 01, 2014
APPLESEED ALPHA -Blu-ray review
By most standards, the “Appleseed” series has a long history. Starting as a manga series in 1985, Masamune Shirow’s creation has seen the original 4-volume manga collection, three feature length films
ReviewsAug 28, 2014
SWELTER Blu-ray review
Back in the days when Gary Cooper was patrolling Hadleyville in “High Noon”, there were certain Western genre structures that were reliably adhered to. The good sheriff, donning a white hat, needed to
ReviewsAug 26, 2014
CITIZEN KOCH - DVD Review
William Randolph Hearst did everything he could to prevent Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” from playing in theaters because the maligned “hero” of that film, Charles Foster Kane, was obviously Hearst. Th
ReviewsAug 25, 2014
BLENDED - Blu-ray review
There are more than a few problems with “Blended,” which lands in stores soon from Warner Bros. Rather than be persnickety and go after the boring script, the uninspired performances or the well b
ReviewsAug 23, 2014
REVELATION TRAIL - DVD review
Zombie movies are big again, and a sub-genre that’s emerged in recent years is the zombie Western. “The Quick and the Undead” may have kick-started the trend back in 2006, because a number of zombie W
ReviewsAug 22, 2014
BEE PEOPLE - DVD review
“Bee People” looked like a film that was going to tell me more about something that I already know: that honeybees are in steep decline, and that anyone who appreciates the little things in life (