Ant Man (Digital HD)
I have to start off by saying I’ll always wonder what Ant-Man would have been if Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) had stayed in the director’s chair. He was attached to the project for several years, but departed over creative differences with Marvel. Much of the time a departure like that spells […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Extended Edition (3D Blu-ray)
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, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Gandalf the Grey (Sir Ian McKellen), and a band of dwarves […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Blu-ray)
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 has difficulty maintaining the fantasy for its 161 minute runtime, finding it necessary to resort […]
Blu-ray Review: Real Steel
Based in part on the 1956 short story “Steel” by Richard Matheson, Real Steel might be best described as souped up Transformers. Set in 2020, fans have decided that regular boxing is simply to tame. In an effort to satisfy audiences’ violent appetites, robot boxing was created; once promising boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is […]
Blu-ray Review: Lost – The Complete Fourth Season
Lost is a strange but wonderful series. There are so many things going on, you can’t help but be a bit confused from time to time. There’s an unexplainable medical/magnetic thing happening, where passengers on Oceanic Flight 815 who were in a wheelchair or had cancer or were sterile suddenly found their medical problems solved […]