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Blu-ray Review: Hostage

2005’s Hostage is one of those films that are perfectly enjoyable if you allow yourself to get past the plots implausibility’s. Hostage represents another attempt by Bruce Willis to produce a thriller with the kind of broad appeal exhibited in the Die Hard films. While Hostage doesn’t come anywhere near reaching that goal, it does [...]

Pulp Fiction Coming to Blu-ray October 4th

Called “one of the most wanted Blu-ray titles of all time” (IGN) and ranked as such on numerous critics’ lists, Pulp Fiction is “nothing less than a cultural phenomenon” (Moviemaker Magazine).  The film was honored with an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay (1994) and earned seven total nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director [...]

Blu-ray Review: Cop Out

Warner Bros. | 2010 | 107 mins. | Rated R I should begin this review by stating that I admire many of Kevin Smith’s films. Chasing Amy remains one of the sharpest, self-aware rom-coms available today, and I always seem to watch it at least once a year; Clerks II was both poignant and funny. [...]

Blu-ray Review: Armageddon

Disney / Buena Vista | 1998 | 150 mins. | Rated PG-13 Released in July of 1998, Armageddon became a box office smash. Despite largely negative reviews from critics, filmgoers flocked to theaters, leaving the movie with a gross of $553.7 million worldwide. Directed by Michael Bay, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer—two men known for [...]

Blu-ray Review: Surrogates

Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 88 mins. | Rated PG-13 After directing the third film in the Terminator franchise, Jonathan Mostow returns to a story involving humanoid characters with robotic skeletons; Surrogates based on the 2005-06 comic book series of the same name. The comics premise is fascinating: a dark future in which [...]

Blu-ray Review: Striking Distance

Sony Pictures | 1993 | 102 mins | Rated R In the early 1990′s, Bruce Willis was one of the biggest action stars in Hollywood. Given the major success of the first two Die Hard films he was often cast in films in that genre. One can only believe that Willis thought his acting skills [...]