Blu-ray Review: Jack the Giant Slayer
Another in a growing number of films that seek to offer alternate versions of popular fairy tales, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer reworks Jack the Giant Killer. As is often the case with these films, our hero has a surprising taste for destruction. While the Jack the Giant Killer narrative never truly soars, director […]
DVD Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel does what movies are supposed to do: Show us something different; show us something new. The different is in Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson appearing together, along with Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel, and other fine Indian actors who add to the movie […]
Blu-ray Review: Rango
Director Gore Verbinski reteams with his Pirates of the Caribbean star, Johnny Depp, for Rango, an animated Western featuring a lizard as its unlikely hero. This wickedly imaginative and original film pays loving tribute to nearly every western master, including John Ford and especially the “man with no name,” Clint Eastwood. As the film begins, […]
RANGO arrives on Blu-ray/DVD combo July 15th
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray/DVD release of Rango, the Industrial Light & Magic computer-animated film from director Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean) that earned more than $230 million at the worldwide box office earlier this year. Johnny Depp voices Rango, a chameleon who dreams of being a fearless hero and gets […]