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 […]
The Ringer (Blu-ray)
The Ringer is a comedy about a man who pretends to be mentally disabled in order to enter the Special Olympics. Executive Produced by the Farrelly Brothers, purveyors of bad taste, the guys who gave us the disturbing, yet hilarious Something About Mary and starring Johnny Knoxville who made his name on MTV’s Jackass, I […]
Blu-ray Review: The Campaign
With the 2012 presidential election just days away, many of us have grown tired of political debates, hyperbole and ads. But leave it to Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis and the director behind Austin Powers to make politics intriguing again. Director Jay Roach’s The Campaign, stars Will Ferrell as Cam Brady, a North Carolina Congressman who’s […]
DVD Review: The Sinking of the Laconia
Besides inspiring a desire to watch The Hunt for Red October again, which was met right after watching this, The Sinking of the Laconia also inspires disbelief: The Nazis? Humanitarians? Really? It’s true. Apparently, the farther they are from the heart of Berlin, the slight chance there is of a tiny moral light breaking through […]
Blu-ray Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
After milking the franchise for all its worth in the in the early 70s and then failing miserably with Tim Burton’s 2001 reboot, Fox wisely to their time before trying to resuscitate Planet of the Apes. Though it’s taken an entire decade, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is an excellent addition to the […]
Blu-ray Review: Manhunter
Michael Mann’s Manhunter was such a box office disappointment—just $8.6 million—when it was released in 1986 that when author Thomas Harris wrote a sequel two years later, producer Dino DeLaurentis agreed to loan Orion Pictures the rights to adapt it as a feature. 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs, went on to gross $130 million […]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Lands on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Download December 13th
LOS ANGELES (October 18, 2011) – A single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a battle unlike any other when RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES makes its worldwide debut on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on December 13th in North America and starting December 7th Internationally. From the Oscar-winning® visual effects […]