Archive for July, 2009
Blu-ray Review: Echelon Conspiracy
Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 105 mins | Rated PG-13 Throughout the history of film, Hollywood has a history of creating knockoffs. Filmmakers and executives don’t restrict the art of the art of the knockoff to the movies themselves; sometimes they extend the policy to actors. Over the past few years, Shia LaBeouf has become [...]
Blu-ray Review: Race to Witch Mountain
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 98 mins | Rated PG Given Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s popularity as a wrestler and his subsequent success in action films like The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, it would have made sense if he wanted to build a career as an action star; instead, by 2007, [...]
DVD Review: Power Rangers RPM – Volume One, Start Your Engines
Disney | 22 mins. | 2008 | Not Rated Originating from the Japanese tokusatsu Super Sentai Series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers began airing on the Fox network as part of the Fox Kids group of programs. Tremendously successful, the initial series lasted three seasons and the franchise has continued ever since. As of 2009, the [...]
Blu-ray Review: Prison Break -The Final Break
20th Century Fox | 2008 | 89 mins | Not rated After four successful seasons, Fox decided to bring the curtain down on Prison Break with a two part series finale. They were originally produced as separate episodes titled “The Old Ball and Chain” and “Free” and later transformed into a standalone feature, titled The [...]
DVD Review: Third Watch -The Complete Second Season
Warner Bros. | 2000 | 989 mins. | Not Rated Created by ER executive producer John Wells and former Chicago Police officer Edward Allen Bernero, Third Watch followed a group of police officers, firefighters, and paramedics in the fictional 55th Precinct and Fire Station 55 whose shifts fell between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m, the [...]
Blu-ray Review: A River Runs Through It
Sony Pictures | 1992 | 124 mins | Rated PG Directed by Robert Redford (Ordinary People, Quiz Show), A River Runs Through It is a largely faithful telling of the 1976 novella by Norman Maclean. Known for his keen sense of prose and his willingness to weave autobiographical tidbits into his stories, A River Runs [...]
DVD Review: Charles Mingus – Epitaph
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2009 | 131 mins. | Not Rated Few would argue that Charles Mingus is one of the most important and influential jazz musicians and composers of our time. Dozens of musicians played in his bands and went on to their own successful solo careers. Epitaph was to be Mingus’ magnum opus; [...]
DVD Review: Peanuts – 1960′s Collection
Charles M. Schultz beloved comic strip Peanuts, debuted on October2, 1950 and new strips ran until February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz’s death). At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. Given that success it is no surprise [...]
DVD Review: Wild Pacific
BBC | 2009 | 353 mins | Not rated A while back, I had the pleasure of watching the colossal Planet Earth: The Complete Collection. Its sets like those that make the life of a DVD reviewer sometimes feel like a special little place in the world. Planet Earth remains one of the most beautiful [...]
DVD Review: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero – Season 1.1
Shout Factory | 2009 | 480 mins. | Not Rated As a kid growing up in the 1980′s, I vaguely remember seeing parts of G.I. Joe cartoons because my brother had it on. At the time, I was more enthralled with classic cartoons like Bugs Bunny, The Flintstones and The Smurfs which was very hot [...]
DVD Review: Watchmen (The 2-Disc Special Edition Director’s Cut)
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 186 mins | Rated R Never a big fan of comic books or graphic novels, I knew next to nothing about Watchmen when the anticipation over the release of the film based on the series began to build. Written by Alan Moore, with artwork and color by Dave Gibbons and [...]
DVD Review: Hotel – The First Season
Paramount | 1169 mins. | 1983 | Not Rated Based on Arthur Hailey’s 1965 novel of the same name (which had also inspired a 1967 feature film), Hotel was created and produced by Aaron Spelling. Set in the elegant (and fictitious) St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco, the show centered around the issues surrounding the [...]
DVD Review: Leverage – The First Season
TNT | 584 mins | Not Rated Created by John Rogers and Chris Downey, Leverage follows a team of Los Angeles based thieves, computer experts and con-artists. They are led by former insurance investigator Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton) and use their skills to right corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on common citizens. Early on, we [...]
Blu-ray Review: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Sony Pictures | 1998 | 101 mins | Rated R Any way you slice it, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a bad film. It’s so bad it’s not even cheesy; the whole thing should have been left on the cutting room floor. A sequel to the moderately inventive I Know What [...]
Blu-ray Review: Midnight Express
Sony Pictures | 1978 | 121 mins | Rated R Alan Parker has directed a number of well known films including Fame (1980), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Mississippi Burning (1988) and Evita (1996). However, his greatest achievement in film is likely 1978′s Midnight Express, based on Billy Hayes’ book of the same name and [...]
DVD Review: Bewitched -The Complete Eighth and Final Season
Sony Pictures | 1971 | 677 mins | Not Rated Bewitched first aired on ABC September 17, 1964, and the series became an instant hit with critics and audiences, lasting for eight seasons and 256 episodes. After 22 Emmy nominations in its first seven seasons, the eighth season turned out to be the aeries last, [...]
Blu-ray Review: The Jonas Brothers – The 3-D Concert Experience
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 76 mins | Rated G In some form or another, boy bands have been around almost since the birth of rock ‘n roll. Cute and attractive, the largely female demographic of the music buying public loves them. The fifties brought us Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, with the [...]
Blu-ray Review: 12 Rounds
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 110 mins | Rated PG-13 I haven’t been an avid fan of professional wrestling since I was a teenager in the mid-eighties–the WWE was the WWF and Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine were among the sport’s biggest stars–I’ve never seen John Cena in the [...]
Blu-ray Review: Grumpy Old Men
Warner Bros. | 1993 | 103 mins | Rated PG-13 Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon made ten films together (eleven, if you count Lemmon’s cameo in the Matthau vehicle Kotch). While they are undoubtedly best remembered for their pairing in 1968′s The Odd Couple, the two had an undeniable magic when paired on the screen [...]
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