ReviewsAug 02, 2011
RIO - Blu-ray review
DVD Town's Michael Hiscoe called it "not much more than a colorful distraction from reality," but I beg to differ. "Rio" is the closest the 20th Century Fox animation crew has come to matching the loo
ReviewsJul 30, 2011
DONNIE DARKO - Blu-ray review
"Donnie Darko" is a bit like a teenager: brooding, complex, rebellious, and difficult to comprehend. Which is perfect, because the 2001 film is about a title character (Jake Gyllenhaal) who's all thos
ReviewsJul 30, 2011
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL - Blu-ray review
Some films have a wise air about them. Just as "When Harry Met Sally" captured the essence of male-female relationships, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" conveys everything that is hilariously and poigna
ReviewsJul 30, 2011
OVERBOARD - Blu-ray review
"Overboard" (1987) is a male fantasy. It's a reverse Cinderella tale. It's also the best of two romantic comedies that Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell made together (the other being 1984's "Swing Shift.
ReviewsJul 30, 2011
BE COOL - DVD review
Like fellow writer Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard has made a nice little career out of creating wacky characters who live in sunny climes and get themselves involved with murders, squeeze-plays, con men
ReviewsJul 27, 2011
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF - Blu-ray review
"How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this? " The question you're probably asking right now is, Why are the folks at Paramount re-releasing a Blu-ray edition of "Ferris Bue
ReviewsJul 20, 2011
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN - Blu-ray review
"You vultures…circling the city…tearing off the flesh from everything that is innocent. " --Hobo Directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino reignited the horror-exploitation genre with their do
ReviewsJul 17, 2011
LIMITLESS - Blu-ray review
"Limitless" is a film that strikes me as being ironically limited by a concept that doesn't hold up if you think about it too much. What if you could take a pill that would allow you to use 100 perce
ReviewsJul 08, 2011
NAKED - Blu-ray review
In the 1950s and 1960s, a group of British novelists and playwrights came to be identified as the "angry young men. " The writers themselves were "angry young men" (though writer Shelagh Delaney was,
ReviewsJul 08, 2011
ENTOURAGE (TV SERIES) - Blu-ray review
For the longest time, the so-called problems "Entourage" characters dealt with on-screen were so far fetched to the average non-movie star viewer that in some cases it was difficult to relate. Guys wi
ReviewsJul 07, 2011
CEDAR RAPIDS - Blu-ray review
The idea of the naïve country boy getting an indoctrination into big-city ways goes all the way back to Aesop, whose 5th-century B.C.E. tale of "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse" was a lesson in t
ReviewsJul 07, 2011
DEATH AT A FUNERAL - Blu-ray review
Some people don't get British comedy. At times, I'm one of them. I can appreciate several of the Monty Python features, but, well . . . then there's the others. It's not just that it's droll. Sometime