ReviewsAug 30, 2012
HEADHUNTERS - Blu-ray review
Recently, Swedish author Stieg Larsson has received a lot of accolades for his bestselling three-part book series popularly known as the “Millennium” series. But, even before Larsson’s unstoppable pos
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ReviewsAug 30, 2012
HOCUS POCUS - Blu-ray review
Kenny Ortega’s claim to fame is that he choreographed and directed the “High School Musical” series that became a bona fide phenomenon. But his first Disney movie came 14 years earlier with “Newsies,”
ReviewsAug 29, 2012
TERMINATOR ANTHOLOGY - Blu-ray review
For those folks who have Blu-ray players but somehow missed getting one or more of the four "Terminator" films in high-def, here they are in a big box set from Warner Bros. No, WB didn't produce the f
ReviewsAug 28, 2012
QUADROPHENIA - Blu-ray review
One scene in “Quadrophenia” (1979) captures the absurdity and sincerity of youthful rebellion in all its sure-to-embarrass-you-in-the-future glory. Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels) says to his friend Kevin
ReviewsAug 27, 2012
LONESOME - Blu-ray review
My goodness, New York used to be so crowded! Released in 1928, Paul Fejos' “Lonesome” begins with the big city waking up as “the machinery of life begins to hum.” In a dizzying montage, cars choke th
ReviewsAug 25, 2012
WEEKEND - Blu-ray review
I grow more prudish by the day, and I have now reached a point where I avoid watching films with graphic sexual content just as I have always tried to avoid people who discuss their (alleged) sexual e
ReviewsAug 25, 2012
DARLING COMPANION - Blu-ray review
“Darling Companion” sounds like the title of an Oxygen or Lifetime TV movie. Unfortunately, though it’s directed by Lawrence Kasdan (“The Big Chill”) and features a slew of stars, it also plays li
ReviewsAug 24, 2012
MARVEL ANIMATED SERIES: WOLVERINE - DVD review
The “Wolverine: The Animated Series” is part of a project to introduce western Marvel characters to the Japanese audience with tailored animation towards traditional anime. Iron Man, X-Men and Bla
ReviewsAug 24, 2012
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE - DVD review
Managing editor's note: This is an older film, but we're posting it now because we don't have a review in our database . . . and also to introduce a reviewer new to Movie Met! It has become a clich
ReviewsAug 24, 2012
THE LUCKY ONE - Blu-ray review
If you've ever read a book by Nicholas Sparks or seen a movie adaptation of any of his works, you know the formula. Sparks is a romance writer who struck it big in the literary world with "The Noteboo
ReviewsAug 23, 2012
A SEPARATION - Blu-ray review
There are so many heartbreaking moments in “A Separation” (2012) that it would be difficult to write about all of them in this review. But one scene that specifically stayed with me came in the film’s
ReviewsAug 22, 2012
QUICK - Blu-ray review
“Quick” is a new super-charged action film from Korean director Beom-gu Cho who also wrote the screenplay...eh…or should I say plot. There is a speedy action-filled prologue introducing the main