Blu-ray Review: Black Christmas – Special Edition
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage sex comedy’s and sweet Christmas classics, Clark actually got his start in the movie business […]
DVD Review: High Noon – 2-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by most film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate to him. As fellow film legend Clint Eastwood said of Cooper in the 1991 documentary, Gary Cooper: American […]
Blu-ray Review: Fred Claus
Every year, Hollywood cranks out two or three Christmas movies in hopes of making a classic that will stand the test of time. You know what I mean; become a move like It’s a Wonderful Life or the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street starring Natalie Wood–Films that become so identified with the Christmas […]
DVD Review: Noëlle
With the holiday season fast approaching, lots of Christmas specials and Christmas themed movies are showing up at my door. Noëlle is a film that received a limited theatrical release last year, and carries the Dove Family-approved seal. David Wall–who looks exactly like a cross between Robert Redford and Owen Wilson–writes, directs, and stars in […]
DVD Review: Futurama – Bender’s Game
Futurama was an animated sitcom created by The Simpsons Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. The series followed the adventures of a former New York pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, after he was cryogenically frozen seconds before the start of the year 2000, and thawed out […]
Blu-ray Review: Standard Operating Procedure
Documentaries have long been overlooked by much of the movie going public. I’m not really sure why, but I’ve always felt most people go to the movies to escape reality, and documentaries tend to bring us right back into the real world we’re trying so hard to escape with a visit to our local Cineplex. […]
DVD Review: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Note: This double-sided DVD includes the movie in three formats: a full-screen version in 2-D, a widescreen version in 2-D, and a widescreen version in 3-D. You’ll find my comments about each of the formats in the Video section below. Journey to the Center of the Earth seems to be Hollywood’s go to novel when […]
Blu-ray Review: Universal Soldier
While I’m not a big fan of horror films, I’ve always had a place in my heart for action films. Action movies of the eighties were about muscle bound machismo; think Schwarzenegger and Stallone–blow a few things up. Save the world. When the credits rolled ninety minutes later, the audience went home pumped up and […]
Blu-ray Review: Wall – E (3 Disc DisneyFile Special Edition
For years, I’ve been waiting for Disney-Pixar to disappoint me. I figured the studio that has brought us Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Cars and Finding Nemo among others was bound to put out a real stinker at some point. After watching Wall – E on Blu-ray, my stinker watch has ended and I’m about […]
DVD Review: I Dream of Jeannie – The Complete Series
It is the holiday season friends. That means that the studios are trying to put forward their best stuff in hopes that their special editions and mega-sets will make it to your gift giving list this year; I’ve been receiving this stuff on a daily basis now for a couple of weeks. I’m on a […]