DVD Review: Lars and the Real Girl
After being nominated for a for a Best Actor in 2007 for his role as Dan Dunne in Half Nelson, no one would have been surprised if Ryan Gosling took the opportunity to cash in and make a series of big budget blockbusters. At only 27, with boyish good looks, the Canadian-born actor could no […]
DVD Review: Charlie Wilson’s War
Based on a true story, Charlie Wilson’s War brings together three top stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The script was written by The West Wing and A Few Good Men scribe Aaron Sorkin, a man who has made a very successful career out of exposing the underbelly of Washington’s political machine. […]
DVD Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2-Disc Special Collectors Edition)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is based on the Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler and words and music by Stephen Sondheim. The Broadway show originally opened on March 1, 1979. Len Cariou won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd. […]
DVD Review: Cloverfield
With an aggressive marketing campaign, Cloverfield was poised to make a splash on the theatrical scene. Like The Blair Witch Project and Snakes on a Plane before it, the buzz started in earnest on the internet. For awhile, the film was simply known as 1-18-08 in cyberspace and clues, theories and plot points were showing […]
DVD Review: Sharkwater
Sharks are generally thought of as very dangerous creatures. Hollywood films such as Jaws have only cemented the sharks reputation as a human killing machine. While Jaws is a classic thriller, the story has no basis in fact and serves as another piece of propaganda in the attempt to paint sharks as the oceans biggest […]
DVD Review: There Will Be Blood (2-Disc Collector’s Edition)
Loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel, Oil!, directed, produced and written by Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood is the story of one man’s fervent need for money and power; A need to control everyone and everything he comes in contact with. A boy he raised from infancy as his own son and […]
DVD Review: The Kite Runner
As a voracious reader, if a book is made into a film, chances are I’ve read it. Strangely, before seeing The Kite Runner I had not read the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini. I don’t quite know why, whether it was the serious subject matter or just timing, I never got to it. After […]
DVD Review: Bee Movie (A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition)
When I settled in to watch Bee Movie I really wasn’t expecting much. Seinfeld, that long running show about nothing had never really been a favorite of mine, so the presence of Jerry Seinfeld didn’t really pique my curiosity. However, I’ve enjoyed the ingenuity of Dreamworks Animation in the past in such projects as the […]
DVD Review: Atonement
Based on the best selling novel by Ian McEwen, Atonement is the story of 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), an aspiring writer from an upper class English family who because of a mix of immaturity, misunderstanding and jealousy, tells a lie that changes her life and that of her family’s forever. Briony’s older sister Cecilia […]
Get Smart Trailer
Get Smart is an upcoming 2008 film adaptation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry’s hit 1960s spy parody television show Get Smart. The film will star Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Alan Arkin will play the Chief. Masi Oka, Terence Stamp, Dwayne Johnson and Dalip “The Great Khali” Singh […]