The Cat Returns (Blu-ray)
A loose sequel to writer Hayao Miyazaki and director Yoshifumi Kondô’s Whisper of the Heart, The Cat Returns was the first directorial effort from animator Hiroyuki Morita. Though the film found success and a certain level of acclaim in Japan, internationally many critics felt as though the film didn’t live up to the high standards […]
Blu-ray Review: No Strings Attached
Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 108 mins. | R No Strings Attached was originally titled Friends With Benefits, which was changed due to a forthcoming Justin Timberlake-Mila Kunis comedy bearing the same name and a near-identical premise: longtime friends decide to have a purely physical relationship; hence, “No Strings Attached.” If you saw last year’s […]
Blu-ray Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 98 min | PG Published in 1843, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of the most adapted novellas in literary history. Filmed numerous times for film and television, adapted for the stage repeatedly, It’s seems that anyone who’s anybody in the annals of pop culture has had […]
Blu-ray Review: The Princess Bride
After watching 1987’s The Princess Bride again after several years, it’s hard to believe William Goldman’s (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men) brilliant script took so many years to make it to movie screens. Originally written in 1972 to entertain his children, the script went through development hell before director Rob […]
DVD Review: Twister (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Twister is now one of my favorite pointless movies of all time. The plot is non-existent and the characters have absolutely no substance, but it doesn’t matter. The picture and sound on Warner Brothers’ recently released two-disc special edition will rock your home theater. As any DVD collector knows, you have to have a few […]