The Good Dinosaur (Blu-ray)
Pixar’s 16th feature film, The Good Dinosaur didn’t exactly set the box office on fire when it was released. It’s not a terrible film, it just doesn’t quite measure up to the high standard the animation studio has set for themselves. While the animated backgrounds are photorealistic, the story is surprisingly ordinary; there’s nothing that […]
The Spike Lee Joint Collection: Vol. 1 (Blu-ray)
With Disney’s recent release of the two-volume, four-movie Spike Lee Joint Collection, three additional films from the prolific, occasionally controversial, director Spike Lee. Vol. 1 features the well written and performed, character study 25th Hour (2002) and the gripping He Got Game (1998), each of which are very different, but showcase some of Spike Lee’s […]
Blu-ray Review: True Blood – The Complete Fifth Season
After a somewhat disappointing fourth season, it seemed as though HBO’s True Blood might be losing its bite. A boring love-triangle subplot and lots of talk about fairies seemed better suited for a daytime soap opera than the world of on Temps, Louisiana we’ve come to know. Thankfully, after a strong ending to the fourth […]
DVD Review: Margaret
Looking for a bracing drama that makes you feel like you spent your evening well? Looking for involving characters embodied by actors who give such insightful, moving performances that you’re locked in all the way to the end, wondering what’s going to happen next and in what emotional shape you’re going to be in by […]
DVD Review: True Blood – The Complete Second Season
HBO | 2008 | 720 mins | Not rated With popular HBO series’ Sex and the City and The Sopranos closing up shop in 2004 and 2007 respectively, some critics wondered if HBO would be able to maintain the success it had enjoyed throughout the 2000’s. While there have been some notable misses—John From Cincinnati […]