
THE COURIER - Blu-ray review
With a known cast like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mickey Rourke, Lily Taylor and Mark Margolis, you would think a movie should be coherent and polished looking. Instead,“The Courier” is a confused piece

With a known cast like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mickey Rourke, Lily Taylor and Mark Margolis, you would think a movie should be coherent and polished looking. Instead,“The Courier” is a confused piece

Since his breakthrough special “Street Magic” in 1996, Illusionist and self-proclaimed “endurance artist” David Blaine has become a cottage industry of extreme, high-risk stunts. “Decade of Magic” col

The main review was written by the legendary Eddie Feng in 2002 in conjunction with Criterion's 2-disc SD release of Wong Kar-Wai's “In the Mood for Love” (2000). The Video, Audio, Extras, and Film Va

Fox recently unveiled the first wave of titles in the Filmmakers Signature Series, a handsome low-priced Blu-ray series featuring a director-approved HD transfer and a 26-page (28, counting covers) fu

Ben Franklin was wrong when he wrote how “nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” If he had lived into the age of cinema, he probably would have added “disappointing sequels” to the

Some films grow on you. Others start to weigh like a growth, or a scruffy beard and dirty clothes that you just can't wait to shed—like the four hillbillies that young Pete is trying to escape in this

From the moment that we’re shown a clip of each character’s situation in England that has them ripe to retire not at Southend-On-Sea or Swansea, but in India, we know that their adventure in this come

“Prometheus” was arguably the biggest film of 2012, grossing more than $400 million and producing a buzz like no other film. It began as the fifth installment of the “Alien” series, but at some po

I’m no expert on Tinker Bell. Peter Pan (complex) maybe, but not Tink. So for this film I’m relying on my 10-year-old daughter, who falls within the target age range of the Tinker Bell films that Disn

The first "Madagascar" CGI animation was innovative and lighthearted, punctuated by likeable characters and catchy music. The second "Madagascar" film, "Escape 2 Africa," was still OK, just not quite

In 2009, a firestorm erupted over the release of "The French Connection" on Blu-ray. Though director William Friedkin said in an introduction to the film that the Blu-ray represented the best vers

As you wish? Maybe. But there seem to be as many editions of “The Princess Bride” as there are Dread Pirate Roberts. There was the initial release, then two-disc “Buttercup” or “Dread Pirate Ro