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Archive for August, 2009

DVD Review: Gossip Girl – The Complete Second Season

Warner Bros. | 2008 | 1063 mins. | Not Rated Another year with those upper East Siders; ‘it girl’ Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), Serena’s best friend and ally Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) is wealthy and popular guy but has some serious issues involving his father to deal with. Chuck [...]

Buy Unforgiven on Blu-ray for $8.99

As blu-ray player and disc prices continue to fall, Amazon continues it’s long tradition of great deals on fan favorites. Now you can get Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Academy Award winning film, Unforgiven, on blu-ray for just $8.99. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Gene Hackman), Best Director, Best [...]

DVD Review: Pete’s Dragon

High-Flying Edition Disney/Buena Vista | 1977 | 129 mins. | Rated G Walt Disney died of cancer in 1966. The death of their founder seemed to leave employees of the Walt Disney Company in a quandary for years. Though a new management team was put in place, throughout the seventies their mantra seemed to be, [...]

DVD Review: American Son

Miramax | 2008 | 86 mins | Rated R MTV staple and Mr. Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon and Neil Abramson director of the infamous Jerry Springer vehicle Ringmaster, might not exactly inspire confidence when audiences hear the two made a film about the Iraq war. Surprisingly though, American Son, nominated for The Grand Jury Prize [...]

Blu-ray Review: Adventureland

Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 107 mins | Rated R Don’t be fooled by the trailers; despite evidence to the contrary, Adventureland is not Superbad II. Instead, director Greg Mottola has crafted a humorous, rather sweet, coming-of-age story with an emotional edge. Gone is the rampant vulgarity, in its place is a more [...]

Gone With the Wind Coming to Blu-ray

Burbank, CA — Winner of 10 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, and still history’s all time domestic box-office champion ($1.5 billion), Gone with the Wind has long been considered the most celebrated motion picture of all time. On November 17, Warner Home Video will honor the romantic epic with a stunningly restored and remastered version, [...]

Blu-ray Review: I Love You, Man

DreamWorks | 2009 | 105 mins | Rated R Once in awhile, along comes a genuinely stupid movie that’s just too funny to hate. You know the kind; dumb premise, little plot but along the way they provide so many laughs, you can’t help but enjoy them. Further, to your astonishment, what you thought seemed [...]

Blu-ray Review: The Informers

Sony Pictures | 2009 | 98 mins | Rated R Like much of his writing, Bret Easton Ellis’ 1994 book The Informers, is a collection of loosely connected vignettes about unsupervised, unmotivated wealthy teens. In this case, it’s 1983 Los Angeles; the money and drugs are flowing. Everyone is having sex (both heterosexual and homosexual), [...]

DVD Review: The Tiger’s Tail

MGM | 2006 | 107 mins. | Rated R The fable of catching a tiger by the tail only to be bitten back serves as a wry allegory for the modern day booming economy of Ireland, dubbed the Celtic tiger, in John Boorman’s The Tiger’s Tail. A modern retelling of The Prince and The Pauper, [...]

DVD Review: Delgo

20th Century Fox | 2008 | 94 mins. | Rated PG I was curious about Delgo when I saw it included voice work by the legendary Anne Bancroft who passed away back in 2005. Upon doing some research about the movie, I found out that the independently produced animated film took over eight years to [...]

Blu-ray Review: Hannah Montana – The Movie

Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 102 mins | Rated G Hannah Montana: The Movie, is another vehicle for Disney, Miley Cyrus and the others involved in the franchise to cash in on the “Hannah” phenomenon. The first big screen film for the pop teen superstar after the big, unexpected success of her 3-D [...]

DVD Review: Husbands

Sony Pictures | 1970 | 142 mins. | Rated PG-13 John Cassavetes was never interested in being a part of the Hollywood system. His first directorial effort, 1959′s Shadows, is considered by many to be an integral piece in the birth of American independent cinema. Shot with a handheld 16mm camera on the streets of [...]

Blu-ray Review: 17 Again

New Line Cinema | 2009 | 102 mins | Rated PG-13 Zac Efron is everywhere these days. As the biggest star of the High School Musical franchise, Efron is the latest young Disney star to position himself for a shot at more than pre-teen superstardom. Yes, he’s still gracing the cover of Bop, Tiger Beat [...]

Blu-ray Review: Dexter – The Third Season

Paramount Pictures | 2008 | 600 mins | Not rated With three seasons in the books, Dexter remains one of the most intriguing television programs on the air. Michael C. Hall continued his skilled portrayal of the title character as the series writers and producer’s brought in characters and created twists and turns that left [...]

Blu-ray Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / The Secret of the Ooze / Turtles in Time / TMNT Warner Bros. | 1990 | 364 mins | Rated PG From the late 1980′s through the early 1990′s, it seemed like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were everywhere–from toys to food to clothes, if the Turtles likeness could be [...]

DVD Review: Designing Women – The Complete Second Season

Shout Factory | 1987 | 540 mins. | Not Rated Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Designing Women was one of my favorite shows of the late eighties, early nineties. Centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia, the show was most definitely [...]

Blu-ray Review: Dollhouse – Season One

20th Century Fox | 2009 | 694 mins | Not rated As the creator of popular television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, Joss Whedon has built a rather rabid fan base. Despite his devoted following, some would argue his work hasn’t gotten its proper due. Though Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran on [...]

DVD Review: Torchwood – Children of the Earth

BBC | 2009 | 300 mins | Not rated Certainly, the news that the third season of Torchwood had been cut from twelve episodes to a five episode mini-series to be aired on consecutive nights in July of 2009 caused great concern among the shows most avid fans. If Children of the Earth was Torchwood’s [...]

Blu-ray Review: The Soloist

DreamWorks |2009 | 117 mins | Rated PG-13 Hollywood loves stories involving people with mental or physical handicaps. The list of Oscar winners is littered with actors who played disabled characters: Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny Belinda (1948), Joanne Woodward as a woman who suffers from dissociative identity disorder in The [...]

Blu-ray Review: Obsessed

Sony Pictures | 2009 | 108 mins | Rated PG-13 At first glance, Obsessed seemed like a great opportunity for pop diva Beyoncé Knowles to stretch her acting wings and play something other than, well, a pop diva. We get to see her bare her claws both literally and metaphorically in a fight for her [...]