Author: Rebecca Wright

Blu-ray Review: $5 a Day

Image Entertainment | 2008 | 98 mins. | Rated PG-13 One of the great things about reviewing movies for my own website is that I get to see hundreds of movies a years. While I get to watch my share…

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Blu-ray Review: The Backup Plan

Sony Pictures | 2010 | 104 mins. | Rated PG-13 Jennifer Lopez returns to the screen in The Back-up Plan,  a typical romantic comedy with a twist.  The normal order of things is reversed; she is artificially inseminated before the…

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Star Wars Coming to Blu-ray

Confirming earlier reports, George Lucas himself announced today that the Star Wars films will be released on Blu-ray in 2011, in a six-movie box set. Speaking at the Celebration V convention in Orlando, Lucas said: “I wish I could say…

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Blu-ray Review: The Last Song

Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 107 mins. | Rated PG The Last Song marks the first time that wildly popular novelist Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, Dear John) wrote the novel and screenplay concurrently. The film was pitched to Disney as…

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Blu-ray Review: Hamlet (1996)

Warner Bros. | 1996 | 242 min | Rated PG-13 The Bard’s longest and most frequently adapted play, Hamlet is as iconic and essential as they come; a masterpiece in every sense of the word. It has entranced audiences for…

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Blu-ray Review: Clash of the Titans (2010)

Warner Bros. | 2010 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 Hollywood loves remakes. With that understanding, it makes sense that someone in Tinseltown would come up with the idea to remake the beloved, but by no means classic, stop-motion-assisted action…

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DVD Review: Black Orpheus

Criterion | 1959 | 107 mins. | Not Rated One of my music appreciation teachers in college, a man in his sixties, would often regal us with tales of his adventures as a youth going to the local art house…

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DVD Review: Max Headroom – The Complete Series

Shout Factory | 1987 | 660 mins. | Not Rated Created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton and portrayed by Matt Frewer, Max Headroom was a product of British artificial intelligence, known for his wit and stuttering, distorted,…

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