Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: 12 Rounds

20th Century Fox | 2009 | 110 mins | Rated PG-13 I haven’t been an avid fan of professional wrestling since I was a teenager in the mid-eighties–the WWE was the WWF and Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and Greg…

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Blu-ray Review: Grumpy Old Men

Warner Bros. | 1993 | 103 mins | Rated PG-13 Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon made ten films together (eleven, if you count Lemmon’s cameo in the Matthau vehicle Kotch). While they are undoubtedly best remembered for their pairing in…

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Blu-ray Review: The Deep

Sony Pictures | 1977 | 125 mins | Rated PG It seems safe to say that author and screenwriter Peter Benchley will always be best known for Jaws, his 1974 bestselling novel that he subsequently turned into a screenplay with…

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Blu-ray Review: The Greatest Game Ever Played

Disney / Buena Vista | 2005 | 121 mins | Rated PG On the face of it, golf doesn’t exactly sound like titillating cinema. However, the 2005 film, The Greatest Game Ever Played manages to be exciting, dramatic and inspirational…

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Blu-ray Review: The Cell 2

New Line Cinema | 2009 | 94 mins | Not rated Though advertised as a sequel to the 2000 Jennifer Lopez film The Cell, this direct to video sequel has nothing in common with its namesake. That’s if you don’t…

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Blu-ray Review: Striking Distance

Sony Pictures | 1993 | 102 mins | Rated R In the early 1990’s, Bruce Willis was one of the biggest action stars in Hollywood. Given the major success of the first two Die Hard films he was often cast…

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Blu-ray Review: Morning Light

Disney / Buena Vista | 2008 | 98 mins Executive produced by Walt’s nephew Roy Disney, Morning Light chronicles a real-life crew training and competing in the 44th Transpacific Yacht Race aboard a TP52 class yacht, Morning Light. I didn’t…

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