Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: Step Up 3

Touchstone Pictures | 2010 | 107 mins. | PG-13 Clearly, time flies as we’ve already been graced with the third film in the Step Up series. Of course, since 3D is all the rage as of this writing, the film…

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Blu-ray Review: Dinner for Schmucks

Paramount Pictures | 2010 | 114 mins. | PG-13 1998’s Le dîner de cons (The Dinner Game), a French film by Francis Veber, is a delight of farce and absurdity, choosing brevity for its levity, it delivers the premise while…

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Blu-ray Review: Case 39

Paramount | 2010 | 109 mins. | R Given how so many Hollywood films portray children, it’s a wonder many people choose to become parents at all. Countless horror films have portrayed children as spawns of Satan, demons from the…

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Blu-ray Review: The Town

Warner Bros. | 2010 | 125 mins. | R Just a few years ago, it looked like Ben Affleck might have thrown away much of a promising career. After scoring an Academy Award (with Matt Damon) for writing 1998’s Good…

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Blu-ray Review: Scooby-Doo 1 & 2 Collection

Warner Bros. | 2002-2004 | 179 mins. | PG Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, Scooby-Doo has been one of television’s most popular cartoon characters since hitting the airwaves in 1969. Given its longtime appeal, and Hollywood’s love for…

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Blu-ray Review: True Grit

Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard…

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Blu-ray Review: Fantasia / Fantasia 2000

Disney / Buena Vista | 1940-1999 | 2 Movies | 195 min | G Few would deny that Walt Disney was a creative genius. Looking at Walt’s history, there are countless milestones and achievements. Even so, Disney was always looking…

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Blu-ray Review: Inception

Warner Bros.| 2010 | 148 mins. | PG-13 Hot off the stunning achievement that was The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan could have easily cashed a big check by attaching himself to a pre-existing project. Instead, he took on an…

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Blu-ray Review: Videodrome

Criterion | 1983 | 89 mins. | R Until recently, I’d never made it all the way through director David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. I’m not exactly sure why, except to say that it just seemed a little too weird for me…

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