ReviewsJun 13, 2012
PROJECT X - Blu-ray review
The best thing about 2012's "Project X": It's only eighty-eight minutes long. The second best thing about "Project X": Even if you watch the extended cut, it's only ninety-four minutes. The worst th
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ReviewsJun 12, 2012
THE GOLD RUSH - Blu-ray review
Criterion's Blu-ray release of Charlie Chaplin's “The Gold Rush” includes both the original 1925 silent film, and the 1942 re-release with full score (by Chaplin) and added narration (by Chaplin). Bel
ReviewsJun 11, 2012
SUMMER WITH MONIKA - Blu-ray review
Men in the pre-Internet era sure were desperate for porn. Exploitation master Kroger Babb was keenly aware of that fact when he bought the rights (well, sort of) to a film by a still relatively unknow
ReviewsJun 11, 2012
SHALLOW GRAVE - Blu-ray review
“If you can't trust your friends, well what then?” Danny Boyle is best known today for shooting award-winning, feature-length Nike commercials, but he began his film career with this award-winning, f
ReviewsJun 11, 2012
LOVE STORY, aka A LADY SURRENDERS - DVD review
Before there was "Love Story" with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal from 1970, there was...wait for it... "Love Story" from 1944. Well, OK, there have been almost three dozen movies titled "Love Story" fro
ReviewsJun 10, 2012
LANCELOT LINK, SECRET CHIMP: 3-DISC COMPLETE SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION - DVD review
The history of television is full of novelty sitcoms, like “My Mother the Car” (about a man’s dead mother who comes back as an automobile), “My Favorite Martian” (about a Martian who rooms with an Ear
ReviewsJun 09, 2012
KOCH BROTHERS EXPOSED - DVD Review
If anything, I suspect that Robert Greenwald's new documentary “Koch Brothers Exposed” (2012) undersells the sheer vileness of the scions of wealth who have leveraged a nearly unparalleled stash of pr
ReviewsJun 09, 2012
ENTOURAGE: SEASON 8 - Blu-ray review
There are so many TV shows that, especially if you don’t have pay cable, it’s tough to keep up. Somehow I’ve managed to miss “Entourage,” the HBO series that’s loosely based on the early Hollywood yea
ReviewsJun 08, 2012
IN DARKNESS - Blu-ray review
Like “Schindler’s List” (1993),**“In Darkness”**tells the story of a gentile who saves a number of Jews from the Nazi holocaust. But while O
ReviewsJun 08, 2012
FRANKLIN & BASH: SEASON 1 - DVD review
“Franklin & Bash” was promoted in the UK as “’Ally McBeal’ with balls,” and I think that’s fair. Like the popular late ‘90s series, this one is a comedy-drama involving lawyers whose antics are ju
ReviewsJun 07, 2012
A PERFECT WORLD - Blu-ray review
"You're a f...ing crazy man! " "And that's a fact. I believe you're getting the hang of this. " Maybe the ironic title says it all: There is no such thing as "A Perfect World. " Clint Eastwood co-sta
ReviewsJun 07, 2012
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE - 3D Blu-ray review
I’ll be honest. I didn’t want to write this review, but the devil made me do it. When “Ghost Rider” (2007) cruised onto Blu-ray, I gave it a good [review](http://moviemet.com/review/ghost-rider-blu-r