Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: Child’s Play

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1988 | 87 mins | Rated R Chucky’s in high definition! Young Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) wants nothing more for his sixth birthday then for his mom Karen (Catherine Hicks) to buy him a large-sized, talking “Good Guy”…

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Blu-ray Review: Observe and Report

Warner Bros. | 2009 | 86 mins | Rated R Perhaps we should call this the year of the mall security guy. In January, there was the Kevin James hit Paul Blart: Mall Cop; three months later, Observe and Report,…

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Blu-ray Review: Iron Monkey

Siu nin Wong Fei Hung ji: Tit Ma Lau Disney / Buena Vista | 1993 | 86 mins | Rated PG-13 While my last foray into martial arts film was the fairly serious and complex Hero, Iron Monkey is almost…

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Blu-ray Review: Hero

Special Edition Disney / Buena Vista | 2002 | 99 mins. | Rated PG-13 Awe inspiring. Even those new or indifferent to the martial arts genre have been blown away by Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s Hero, an internationally acclaimed cinematic…

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Blu-ray Review: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Paramount Pictures | 2003 | 115 mins. | Rated PG-13 Matthew McConaughey got his big break back in 1996 in A Time to Kill, playing a lawyer who defended a black man accused of killing his young daughter’s rapists. Kate…

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Blu-ray Review: MASH

20th Century Fox | 1970 | 115 mins. | Rated PG Now highly regarded as a raucous comedy punctuated by realistic surgery scenes, it’s important to remember that when MASH was released on January 25, 1970 in New York City,…

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Blu-ray Review: Requiem for a Dream

Lionsgate Films | 2000 | 101 mins | Rated R As television pitchman Tappy Tibbons (Christopher McDonald) chants with his audience, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) locks herself in the closet while her son Harry (Jared Leto) steals her TV. Behind…

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Blu-ray Review: Earth

Disney / Buena Vista | 2007 | 90 mins | Rated G Part of the recently launched Disneynature project, the 90-minute Earth is actually a shortened version of the colossal BBC series, Planet Earth. Though severely cut, the editors have…

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Blu-ray Review: Sons of Anarchy – Season One

20th Century Fox | 2008 | 578 mins. | Not Rated Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet (with a pinch of Macbeth tossed in for good measure), Sons of Anarchy represents another boundary pushing entry on the FX schedule. For those…

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