Warner Bros. | 2009 | 99 mins. | Rated R You wouldn’t think a film about a calculating, silent killer could be dull and uncreative, but Ninja Assassin manages to fit the bill in both categories. However, the fault might…
20th Century Fox | 1985 | 117 mins. | Rated PG-13 Based upon the novel by David Saperstein, Cocoon was the fourth directorial effort by Ron Howard and stars a number of Hollywood veterans. While actor Steve Guttenberg was a…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 115 mins | Rated PG-13 Based on the 1970 short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson, and previously adapted into an episode of the 1980s incarnation of The Twilight Zone, The Box feels too long…
New Line Cinema | 1984 | 91 mins. | Rated R As is to be expected, A Nightmare on Elm Street makes its stateside Blu-ray debut to coincide with the theatrical release of a remake on April 30, 2010. Written…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1999 | 92 mins. | Rated G Four years after Pixar changed the face of animation with Toy Story, they came roaring back into theaters with Toy Story 2. Certainly expectations were high, but rarely…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 41 mins. | Rated G Director Howard Hall has taken us to the ocean floor before, bringing us Deep Sea, Island of the Sharks, Into the Deep, and Nature. With his most recent project, Howard…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 128 mins. | Rated PG-13 Sporting his remarkably convincing English accent for the first time since his Oscar nominated role in Chaplin, Robert Downey, Jr. takes on the lead role in director Guy Ritchie’s (Snatch)…
Criterion | 1956 | 95 mins. | Not rated | Mar 23, 2010 Nominated for Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life (1956) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion. Unavailable on home video until now,…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1995 | 81 mins. | Rated G Animation can be divided into two generations—before Toy Story and after Toy Story. By the mid 1990’s, computer animation was regularly used in traditionally animated films to aid…
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 87 mins. | Rated PG Adapted from Roald Dahl’s book of the same name, Fantastic Mr. Fox is director Wes Anderson’s (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) first foray into full length stop-motion animation. Adapted for…