It took a few years, but Doctor Strange has finally entered the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse by way of a self-titled origin story. Though saddled with mandatory elements, the story offers enough ingenuity and excitement to keep viewers engaged. For those…
While all of The Lord of the Rings films received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, The Hobbit Trilogy hasn’t lived up to those achievements, but nonetheless, had its moments despite obvious flaws. With The Battle of the Five Armies, we…
Editor’s Notes: Portions of this review also appear in our coverage of the previous Blu-ray release of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.’ Picking up where An Unexpected Journey left off, just after their escape from a pack of Orcs,…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in Peter Jackson’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, is beginning to show the strain of the director’s determination to stretch the adventure into three books. While still enjoyable, Smaug…
Based on Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County is the kind of drama many actors love to do: thick with dialogue, it gives multiple performers a chance to really chew some scenery. Packed with fighting, crying, drinking,…
Chronicling the rise to prominence of whistle blowing website WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), The Fifth Estate is told from the perspective of Daniel Dumsheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl), former spokesperson for the site, a computer genius who was…
Director Peter Jackson has returned to Middle Earth with co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to the big screen over the course of three films. Certainly, the question of whether a 310 page novel…
Based on the children’s novel and stage adaptation of the same name, War Horse tells the story of the special relationship between a young man and his horse. While the story of this relationship does have moments of charm, it’s…
Based on the true story of Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower explores the horrors of sex trafficking in vivid detail. When Atlanta policewoman Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) decided to accept a position as a UN peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia, her plan…
BBC | 2009 | 353 mins | Not rated A while back, I had the pleasure of watching the colossal Planet Earth: The Complete Collection. Its sets like those that make the life of a DVD reviewer sometimes feel like…