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WEST SIDE STORY - Blu-ray review
ReviewsNov 13, 2011

WEST SIDE STORY - Blu-ray review

Rumors about Tuesday's Blu-ray release of "West Side Story" started swirling many weeks ago, with two points of contention: First, that the overture visual sequence, the Saul Bass credit sequence was

  • By James Plath
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS - Blu-ray review
ReviewsNov 11, 2011

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS - Blu-ray review

I love it when a film surprises me. One look at the cover for "Water for Elephants" and three words came to mind: cheesy, melodrama, chick-flick. The artwork looks like the cover of a paperback roman

  • By James Plath
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TOY STORY 2 - Blu-ray 3D review
ReviewsNov 08, 2011

TOY STORY 2 - Blu-ray 3D review

"Toy Story" (1995) made history as the first completely CGI animated feature. But "Toy Story 2" (1999) is also one for the books. Why? Because it's one of the rare Hollywood sequels that's equal to th

  • By James Plath
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TOY STORY 3 - Blu-ray 3D review
ReviewsNov 08, 2011

TOY STORY 3 - Blu-ray 3D review

Screenwriter Michael Arndt told a virtual roundtable that "writing ‘Toy Story 3' was a three-year ordeal of anxiety and barely suppressed panic. And the only person more desperate and panic-stricken t

  • By James Plath
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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 - Blu-ray review
ReviewsNov 06, 2011

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 - Blu-ray review

"He knows if we find them and destroy all the horcruxes, we'll be able to kill him. I reckon he'll stop at nothing to make sure we don't find the rest. There's more: One of them is at Hogwarts. " --Ha

  • By John J. Puccio
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ROLE/PLAY - DVD review
ReviewsNov 05, 2011

ROLE/PLAY - DVD review

"Role/Play" is a gay-interest film, and I feel as if I should offer up the disclaimer that I am not, myself, gay. But I don't believe you have to be in order to review a film like this, any more than

  • By James Plath
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CARS 2 - Blu-ray 3D review
ReviewsNov 02, 2011

CARS 2 - Blu-ray 3D review

It's your own fault, John Lasseter. Because your studio's first 11 films were home runs, every time your guys go to their computers the public expects another awesome at-bat. That would be unreasonabl

  • By James Plath
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THE TREE OF LIFE - Blu-ray review
ReviewsOct 25, 2011

THE TREE OF LIFE - Blu-ray review

"Art is the Tree of Life," William Blake once wrote. "Science is the Tree of Death. " That's an extreme statement, of course, but it illustrates that Blake was a humanist who valued art and artistic e

  • By James Plath
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RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, THE - DVD review
ReviewsOct 13, 2011

RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, THE - DVD review

Before there was John Le Carré or Graham Greene or Ian Fleming, there was Erskine Childers, whose 1903 novel "The Riddle of the Sands" paved a prototypical pathway for all twentieth-century spy thrill

  • By John J. Puccio
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DISNEYNATURE: AFRICAN CATS - Blu-ray review
ReviewsOct 09, 2011

DISNEYNATURE: AFRICAN CATS - Blu-ray review

Watching "Disneynature: African Cats," I realized within minutes (as most viewers would) that this film was totally different from three previous Disneynature releases--"Earth," "Oceans" and "The Crim

  • By James Plath
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GREEN LANTERN - Blu-ray review
ReviewsOct 04, 2011

GREEN LANTERN - Blu-ray review

"In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight, Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power... Green Lantern's Light! " *Note: In the following joint Blu-ray review, both

  • By John J. Puccio
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