Stop-Loss (Blu-ray)
Director Kimberly Peirce made a major breakthrough with her 1999 film, Boys Don’t Cry which chronicled the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a trans-gendered teen who preferred to identify as a male and was brutally murdered when it was discovered he was born a female. It took Peirce nearly ten years to bring her next […]
3D Blu-ray Review: G. I. Joe – Retaliation
GI Joe: Rise of Cobra was largely considered to be a mess. Despite a critical drubbing, the film managed to make over $300 million in worldwide box office, resulting in the sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Paramount overhauled things a bit, maintaining some storylines and keeping some characters, but making some big changes along the way. […]
Blu-ray Review: Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects is an interesting film, in that it starts off telling one story, only to quickly switch gears and tell another. Unfortunately, the first story is far more interesting, and better constructed than the second, which means that the film never really lives up to its full potential. Even so, Side Effects […]
Universal Announces Side Effects Blu-ray/DVD
Side Effects marks what could be the end of a long and illustrious career on the big screen for director Steven Soderbergh. Universal Studios has set the Blu-ray and DVD release for May 21, 2013. Below is information on the film and the Blu-ray and DVD release. Universal City, California – From Academy Award®-winning director Steven Soderbergh […]
Blu-ray Review: Magic Mike
In the months since the trailer first arrived in theaters, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had Magic Mike described to me as the “Channing Tatum male stripper movie.” While Channing Tatum does play a male stripper, the movie is actually much more than that, with only about 15 minutes of the […]
Blu-ray Review: The Son of No One
Every actor stars in a bad movie or two over the course of their career. Sometimes, as in the case with The Son of No One, a handful of talented people end up in a film so bad, you can only shake your head. Directed by Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) The […]
Blu-ray Review: Dear John
Sony Pictures | 2010 | 108 mins. | Rated PG-13 Author Nicholas Sparks has unquestionably cornered the market on angst filled romance cinema. As the lovers in his previous films The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Nights In Rodanthe have shown, staying together is never easy. Somehow, debilitating diseases, war and natural disasters always […]