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Blu-ray Review: Velvet Goldmine

“We set out to change the world,” laments Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) to New York Herald journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), “and ended up changing only ourselves.” “What’s wrong with that?” the reporter responds quizzically. “Nothing…if you don’t look at the world.” After that scene near the end of 1998’s Velvet Goldmine, the camera spins [...]

Blu-ray Review: Star Wars – The Complete Saga

It’s been a long wait, but Star Wars: The Complete Saga has finally landed in stores. Now, with product in hand, fans can decide for themselves what they think of George Lucas’ latest offering of what may be his finest work. I was happy to have most of Thursday afternoon to peruse the set. All [...]

Blu-ray Review: Trainspotting

“I chose not to choose life. I chose to choose something else,” says the film’s narrator and main character, a twenty-something Edinburgh man named Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), near the beginning of Trainspotting. From the start, it’s clear that this Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) directed film is a dark and gritty struggle. In [...]

Blu-ray Review: The Island

While 2005’s The Island marked director Michael Bay’s first effort without the assistance of producer Jerry Bruckheimer, you’d be hard pressed to know it. Like many of his past films with Bruckheimer–Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and Bad Boys II—The Island delivers plenty of thrills and loud action sequences.

The Island Coming to Blu-ray

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. – Director Michael Bay delivers a mesmerizing look into the not-too-distant future in THE ISLAND, debuting on Blu-ray June 21, 2011 from Paramount Home Entertainment.  Ewan McGregor (The Ghost Writer) and Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2) star as Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta, residents of a confined indoor community created after [...]

Blu-ray Review: Moulin Rouge

20th Century Fox | 2001 | 128 mins. | PG-13 After decades of box office dominance, the movie musical fell largely out of favor. With the exception of a couple of notable Disney productions, many studios seemed to abandon the musical genre altogether. Writer/director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo & Juliet, Australia) has never been a man [...]

Blu-ray Review: Amelia

20th Century Fox | 2009 | 111 mins. | Rated PG There’s no doubt that crafting a film about a real life event is a tough task; most of the audience knows the ending, so it has to be interesting enough to keep people engaged. 1997’s Titanic is a great example of how to do [...]

DVD Review: Deception

Deception has been used as a film title several times, so perhaps the name of this 2008 offering should have tipped me off to its unoriginal story. However with the star power of Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, I figured any film that described itself as an “erotic thriller” couldn’t be all bad. I envisioned [...]