ReviewsMar 27, 2014
DELIVERY MAN - Blu-ray review
In my This Week column, I used the word “inane” to describe Vince Vaughn’s latest comedy, and I stand by that language. But “Delivery Man” is also surprisingly entertaining, if you’re able to chec
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WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - Blu-ray review
When Fox got back into the animation game in 1994, I and probably half the world envisioned the kind of spirited competition the studio gave Disney during the Golden Age of cartoon shorts. But that ha
ReviewsMar 21, 2014
BARBIE: THE PEARL PRINCESS - Blu-ray review
Not 10 minutes into “Barbie: The Pearl Princess” my daughter remarked, “I like these movies, but they really need to do something different. Every time it’s either a princess, a fairy, or a mermai
ReviewsMar 19, 2014
KILL YOUR DARLINGS - Blu-ray review
Based on true events, “Kill Your Darlings” tells the story of a pivotal year in the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, early in his literary life, when he was studying at Columbia. Played by Daniel Radc
ReviewsMar 18, 2014
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET - Blu-ray review
I knew it had to arrive at some point. As I sat down to watch “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which cusses its way onto Blu-ray disc from Paramount Pictures quite soon, I firmly believed there would be
ReviewsMar 18, 2014
THE HIDDEN FORTRESS - Blu-ray review
The first fifteen minutes of “The Hidden Fortress” (1958) are as accomplished as anything in Akira Kurosawa's body of work. In the first shot we meet the peasants Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) and Matashichi
ReviewsMar 16, 2014
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS - Blu-ray review
“Inside Llewyn Davis” stars Oscar Isaac as the titular folk-singer, struggling with his career, an elusive housecat, and his own self-destructive impulses in the 1961 Greenwich Village folk scene. He
ReviewsMar 15, 2014
WICKED BLOOD - Blu-ray review
“Wicked Blood” is a strange film. There’s no other way to put it. It’s a standard mafia double-cross movie with a mob boss and henchmen and small-time drug trafficking and an underling that tries
ReviewsMar 11, 2014
IRON SKY (DIRECTOR'S CUT STEELBOOK) - Blu-ray review
Nazis. Like zombies, they just keep coming back. Sometimes AS zombies. But in**“Iron Sky”** the last remnants of the Third Reich are star trekkers. Having escaped to the dark side of the moon followi
ReviewsMar 11, 2014
GEORGE WASHINGTON - Blu-ray review
Since “George Washington” (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise-beyond-her-years narration as the camera floats in slow-motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks
ReviewsMar 08, 2014
12 YEARS A SLAVE - Blu-ray review
Director Steve McQueen told BBC News that his wife, a historian, was the one who suggested he make a film about slavery, and it was she who discovered an obscure 1853 memoir by Solomon Northrup for hi
ReviewsMar 05, 2014
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR - Blu-ray review
Please accept my apologies, but I gave up on "Blue Is The Warmest Color" (2013) at the ten-minute mark. This is no way a reflection on the movie's quality, but my own reaction to director Abdellatif K
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