Archive for May, 2009
Blu-ray Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like all of us, who is unable to stop time. Films are a truly fascinating art form; [...]
DVD Review: That Girl – Season Five
That Girl was the first sitcom to focus on a single woman who was not a domestic or living at home. Some consider the show the forerunner of highly successful series such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Murphy Brown, and an early indication of the changing roles of American women in Feminist-era America. [...]
DVD Review: X: Men – Volume 1
Most moviegoers are likely aware of director Bryan Singer’s X-Men films that first hit theater screens in 2000. However, back in October of 1992, Fox Network launched X-Men, also known as X-Men: The Animated Series. The series was part of the network’s Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup. The show was a huge success and ran [...]
Blu-ray Review: Passengers
Directed by Rodrigo Garcia (Nine Lives) and written by Ronnie Christensen, Passengers is a mystery-cum-romance film. The plot is constructed in such a way that all the different plot points come together at the end, for a revelation that resets everything we have learned up to that point. The problem is, Garcia and Christensen are [...]
Blu-ray Review: Star Trek, The Original Series – Season One
As any Star Trek fan is undoubtedly aware, the original series has been released in countless DVD formats. From its late 1990s single disc, two-episodes-per-disc DVD release, to its more recent HD presentation, the Enterprise and her crew have never found the definitive home-entertainment release. Until now. Blu-ray was meant for Star Trek. The series’ [...]
DVD Review: Dallas – The Complete Eleventh Season
If Dallas didn’t completely “jump the shark” after the tenth season, “it was all a dream” fiasco, the producers made sure they finished the job during the eleventh year. After ten years on the series, Victoria Principal, who played the popular character of Pam Ewing and had appeared in almost every episode of the series, [...]
Blu-ray Review: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Let’s face it, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off isn’t exactly highbrow cinema but it sure is fun. The 1986 comedy made Matthew Broderick a star, cemented director John Hughes’ (Sixteen Candles,The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink) status as the best chronicler of teenage life in a America and made Ferris the envy of every high school [...]
Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever
Say what you will but Saturday Night Fever is probably one of the most culturally significant films of the last fifty years. Released in the United States on December 16, 1977 Saturday Night Fever not only revolutionized the movie and film industries but also changed the way people dressed, communicated and socialized. Tight bell bottoms, [...]
Blu-ray Review: Grease (Rockin’ Rydell Edition)
Grease is the word, baby. One of the most celebrated movie musicals ever, Grease has managed to find an audience across all gender race and age boundaries and maintain its tremendous popularity some thirty years after the film premiered in the United States on June 16, 1978. The enduring popularity of Grease is fairly easy [...]
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