Blu-ray Review: Dr. Doolittle – Million Dollar Mutts
Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts is the fifth film in the updated franchise. Directed by Alex Zamm (Inspector Gadget 2), this direct-to-video film can only be described as innocuous. With talki8ng animals and the slimmest of what might be considered a plot; Million Dollar Mutts might appeal to very young children but doesn’t really have […]
Blu-ray Review: Friday the 13th, Part 2
Friday the 13th: Part 2 scares up Blu-ray! Buoyed by the success of Friday the 13th, Paramount wanted a sequel and wanted it fast. Friday the 13th, Part 2 hit theaters in May of 1981, less than a year after its predecessor. Having served as an associate-producer on the first film, Steve Miner took over […]
Blu-ray Review: Defiance
Director Edward Zwick seems to enjoy making films featuring difficult moral issues and plots driven on the ambiguity of authority and on individual conscience as the ultimate arbiter of truth. It was during the success of Thirtysomething, a television series he created with friend Marshall Herskovitz, that Zwick had his first big screen success with […]
DVD Review: El Dorado (Paramount Centennial Collection)
Last time you took the front door and I took the back, this time we’ll do’er the other way around. –John Wayne as Cole Thornton El Dorado was the second to last film of legendary director Howard Hawks. Released in 1967, El Dorado is the second film in a trilogy directed by Hawks varying the […]
Blu-ray Review: Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road opens with a young man and a young woman (perhaps in their early to mid-twenties), meeting at a party and charming each other with meaningless small talk. In the world of movies, this means there destined to fall in love. In the next scene, time has jumped forward several years; the same couple […]
DVD Review: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Paramount Centennial Collection)
Released in 1962, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was directed by the great John Ford and starred Hollywood legends James Stewart and John Wayne. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck, was adapted from a short story by Dorothy M. Johnson. The film was a big hit upon its release, and Edith […]
DVD Review: Falling Down (Deluxe Edition)
The son of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas has been an actor for over forty years. An Oscar winner both as a producer (1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and an actor (1987’s Wall Street), he proven himself to be a versatile performer both in films and on television. Though he has worked […]
Blu-ray Review: Paul Blart – Mall Cop
I’ve been ripping on movies with the “Happy Madison Production” label a lot lately but with Paul Blart: Mall Cop, I actually found one I enjoyed. Think of Paul Blart: Mall Cop this way, it’s what Die Hard would have been had John Candy starred in it. More succinctly, it’s a blend of comedic styles […]
Blu-ray Review: Big
For whatever reason, Hollywood studios inundated the movie going public with a series of body switching movies at the end of the ’80’s. Like Father Like Son got things going in October 1987, then March through June 1988, Vice Versa, 18 Again and Big were released in a cluster. Most of these films came and […]
DVD Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like all of us, who is unable to stop time. Films are a truly fascinating art form; […]