Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: The Player

New Line Cinema | 1992 | 124 mins. | Rated R A stubbornly independent filmmaker, director Robert Altman was known for making films that no one else dared to touch. MASH, one of Altman’s biggest successes, had been passed over…

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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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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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Blu-ray Review: James and the Giant Peach

Disney/Buena Vista | 1996 | 79 mins. | Rated G Back in the mid nineties when I read that Disney would be releasing a theatrical version of Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, my first thought was, “what a…

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Blu-ray Review: The Losers

Warner Bros. | 2010 | 97 mins. | Rated PG-13 A classic action movie, The Losers is based on a comic book series of the same name. Smartly, the film pays homage to its drawn beginnings and then quickly morphs…

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