ReviewsJun 10, 2011
HALL PASS - Blu-ray review
The Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby, started out strong with "Dumb & Dumber" in 1995, continued on a mildly humorous track with "Kingpin" in 1996, and hit a home run with "There's Something About M
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ReviewsJun 07, 2011
TIGERLAND - Blu-ray review
Call me oblivious, but I had never even heard of "Tigerland," a low-budget 2000 film that has a kind of "Blair Witch Hunt" rawness to it. That, of course, will be a salt-lick to some and salt rubbed i
ReviewsMay 30, 2011
JUST GO WITH IT - Blu-ray review
Adam Sandler's career has come a long way in a short time. The guy who got his start as Opera Man on "Saturday Night Live" eventually became much better known for outrageous stuff like "Happy Gilmore"
ReviewsMay 26, 2011
TRUE BLOOD (TV SERIES) - Blu-ray review
I didn't think it was possible, but "True Blood," HBO's smash hit television series about vampires in rural Bon Temps, Louisiana, has officially weirded me out. Season two dug a bit deeper into the So
ReviewsMay 20, 2011
BIUTIFUL - Blu-ray review
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu should be crowned the undisputed King of Pain. I am not talking about a WWF champion who derives pleasure from inflicting pain on his opponents, but a director who
ReviewsMay 12, 2011
ARAYA - DVD review
"Araya" (1959) is not a documentary in the traditional sense, but then again neither is any other documentary. With its towering pyramids of salt stretching out diagonally towards the horizon, this st
ReviewsMay 02, 2011
BEVERLY HILLS COP - Blu-ray review
One can understand Paramount's desire to get "Beverly Hills Cop" out on Blu-ray as soon as possible. The 1984 action comedy is probably Eddie Murphy's most popular film, if you discount his vocal work
ReviewsApr 24, 2011
MOGULS & MOVIE STARS: A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD - DVD review
In 2010 Turner Classic Movies aired an ambitious project, "Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood," a seven-part, seven-hour documentary on the history of Hollywood movie stars and equally famou
ReviewsApr 07, 2011
INCREDIBLES, THE - Blu-ray review
Brad Bird is proof positive that the Disney Animator Training Program works. Three years out of high school, the aspiring animator got a Disney scholarship to attend the California Institute of the Ar
ReviewsMar 31, 2011
BLACK SWAN - Blu-ray review
Because there are so many ballet-minded girls in the world, it's a shame "Black Swan" is such a dark, R-rated film that they can't watch it until they're old enough to date--which, for most dads, mean
ReviewsMar 26, 2011
TANGLED - Blu-ray 3D review
In a virtual roundtable with online journalists, co-director Byron Howard said that they were "initially very disappointed when 'Tangled' didn't receive an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
ReviewsMar 25, 2011
FAIR GAME - Blu-ray review
Before the 2003 "shock and awe" attack against Iraq, President George W. Bush and his staff claimed that their intelligence proved Saddam Hussein had materials that could only be used for building "we