ReviewsFeb 29, 2012
DISCLOSURE - Blu-ray review
"No means no. Isn't that what we tell women? Do men deserve less? " Uh-oh. It's another Michael Douglas character having trouble with women. You'd think his screen characters would have learned bette
ReviewsFeb 29, 2012
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S THE LEGEND OF AWESOMEST MAXIMUS - Blu-ray review
“National Lampoon’s The Legend of Awesomest Maximus” is for people who want to see nudity without the stigma of watching porn, and for those who’d rather suffer through 87 minutes of mostly bad co
ReviewsFeb 29, 2012
SUNGKYUNKWAN SCANDAL - DVD review
Sometime in the late 1700's, during the era when Korea was known as "Josun," a young girl named Yoon-hee struggles to support her mother and ailing younger brother. Unusually well-educated for a girl,
ReviewsFeb 27, 2012
TO CATCH A THIEF - Blu-ray review
*Note: In the following joint Blu-ray review, Yunda Eddie Feng and Dean Winkelspecht join John in providing their opinions of the film, with John also writing up the Video, Audio, Extras, and Parting
ReviewsFeb 25, 2012
THE INTERRUPTERS - DVD review
There’s only one thing wrong with “The Interrupters”—a 2011 documentary about people who survived their inner city upbringing and are now trying to help others do the same by “interrupting” before
ReviewsFeb 25, 2012
HUGO - Blu-ray review
"Why would my key fit into your father's machine? " Because I go to the movies almost every week, I see a lot of trailers. It seemed as though I watched the preview for 2011's "Hugo" about 800 times
ReviewsFeb 23, 2012
VANYA ON 42ND STREET - Blu-ray review
In an essay in the Criterion booklet for “Vanya on 42nd Street,” author Steven Vineberg writes: “the project… strips down Chekhov’s late-nineteenth century story (“Uncle Vanya”) about Russian intellec
ReviewsFeb 22, 2012
PUSS IN BOOTS - Blu-ray review
He is not an outlaw; he is...the most interesting cat in the world! If you loved him in "Shrek" 2, 3, and 4, you'll probably love him even more in this 2011 animation devoted entirely to that charmin
ReviewsFeb 22, 2012
WYATT EARP'S REVENGE - DVD review
One I’ll soon be a grandpa All the pretty girls will call me “sir” Now, where they’re asking me how things are Soon they’ll ask me how things were I thought of those lyrics by Jimmy Buffett as I wa
ReviewsFeb 21, 2012
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE - DVD review
Most people know about Pol Pot’s ethnic cleansing campaign against Vietnamese sympathizers because of the 1984 war drama “The Killing Fields.” Most Cambodians, we get the feeling from this new documen
ReviewsFeb 21, 2012
ANATOMY OF A MURDER - Blu-ray review
I have been known to say that the courtroom is the place that good movies go to die, but even if you find the theatrics of the American jurisprudence system as appealing as a Nancy Grace marathon, Ott
ReviewsFeb 21, 2012
UNFORGIVEN - Blu-ray review
"I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folks. " --William Munny *Note: In the following joint Blu-ray Book review, both John and Jim provide their opinion of the film, with John also writin