Author: Sarah Moors

Ralphie May

DVD Review: Ralphie May – Too Big to Ignore

Ralphie May is an all-American stand up comic who rose to fame as a finalist on Last Comic Standing in 2003. Originally from Arkansas, Raphie May’s material is a mix of liberal ideals and Southern values. He jumps around from his family to U.S. immigration…

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The Man From Snowy River

Blu-ray Review: The Man From Snowy River

With cowboys, horses, lassos, and mountains, The Man from Snowy Riveris an Australian western adventure with a little something for everyone. Based on a poem written at the end of the nineteenth century, it tells the story of a brave young frontiersman who has to…

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Ferngully-The-Last-Rainforest

Blu-ray Review: Fern Gully – The Last Rainforest

Marking the beginning of the 90’s environmental-based entertainment for children, Fern Gully joins the ranks of hits like Captain Planet and Once Upon a Forest. Fern Gully is a musical, colorful feature film about a community of fairies in the rainforest who are threatened by…

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Thumbelina

Blu-ray Review: Thumbelina

A musical adaptation of the original Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, Thumbelina, is a striking animated film from 1994 featuring original songs from Barry Manilow, Jack Feldman, and Bruce Sussman. Directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman for their Independent  Don Bluth Productions, Inc., Thumbelina…

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Miss Representation

DVD Review: Miss Representation

Sundance award winning documentary Miss Representation from filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom takes everything we know and have seen, from Disney, CNN, Fox, Hair commercials, to political campaigns and points out the painful discrepancy between the portrayal of men and women in the media. In a…

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The Descendants

Blu-ray Review: The Descendants

Matt King is the sole trustee of acres of untouched Hawaiian land that he and his cousins are debating what to do with. While deciding what to do with the land that has belonged to their family since the 1800s, he must also deal with…

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DVD Review: The Conquest

At the end of 2011, The New Yorker published an article on how un-French the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy really is. He is a Frenchman who texts on his iPhone at the dinner table, who is loud and crass, and who likes big money…

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My Joy

DVD Review: My Joy

My Joy lives up to its brilliant film pedigree as being a well-executed film from any aspect of critique. The screenplay and cinematography are exceptional and work together beautifully. This is the first fiction film for political documentary film-maker, Sergei Loznitsa, who wrote the screenplay…

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Mandrill

Blu-ray Review: Mandrill

Ernesto Diaz Espinoza’s Mandrill is an entertaining crime film about a network of agents all on the move to for revenge. Antonio Espinoza (Marko Zaror) is a well-paid bounty hunter embarking on a very important mission; to kill the man that killed his parents when…

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