DVD Review: Air Bud – Special Edition
Back in 1997, when I first heard about Air Bud a film that revolved around a basketball playing golden retriever, I thought “there’s another way someone’s trying to make a buck off Michael Jordan’s moniker. While that was likely true, once I saw Air Bud, I was immediately taken. Always a sucker for Animal flicks, […]
DVD Review: Ace Ventura Jr. – Pet Detective
Even if you understand motion picture studios have always milked a franchise whenever they saw the chance, sometimes you still have to ask why. If a movie is popular enough, especially a comedy, a studio is bound to follow it up with a sequel or two. Warner Bros. followed up 1994’s Ace Ventura: Pet Detective […]
Blu-ray Review: Futurama – Into the Wild Green Yonder
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder arrives on Blu-ray, the fourth of a planned quartet of direct-to-home-video releases centered on Matt Groening’s (The Simpsons: The Movie) FOX animated television program, Futurama. Featuring a similar animation style seen on The Simpsons, Futurama is set in a future where robots walk and talk, a purple-haired female cyclops […]
Blu-ray Review: Primal Fear
Primal Fear is probably best known as the film that launched the career of the then unknown Edward Norton. Since Primal Fear’s release in 1996, Norton has gone on to a variety of eye opening projects and award winning roles. He has taken risks with films like American History X, where he played a reformed […]
Blu-ray Review: Cadillac Records
Written and directed by Darnell Martin (I Like it Like That), Cadillac Records chronicles the life of influential Chicago based record company executive Leonard Chess and the singers who recorded for Chess Records. Exploring the musical era from the early 1940’s to the late 1960s, the film examines the creative yet turbulent lives of some […]
Blu-ray Review: The French Connection II
History has shown that film sequels can be a risky proposition; for every Godfather II, there’s a Grease 2. While The French Connection II certainly isn’t the failure that was Grease 2, it has been well documented that neither Gene Hackman nor the any of the filmmakers were very pleased with the film. Released in […]
Blu-ray Review: Watchmen – The Complete Motion Comic
British writer Alan Moore (From Hell, V for Vendetta), British cartoonist Dave Gibbons, and British writer and artist John Higgins combined talents in the mid 1980s to create a series of twelve DC Comics depicting the adventures of a group of irreverent superheroes known collectively as the Watchmen. The threesome turned the comics into a […]
Blu-ray Review: A Mighty Heart
Based on the memoir of the same name by Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart is the tragic story of American journalist Daniel Pearl. A reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Pearl was abducted by Pakastani militants while investigating the possible connection between Al-Qaeda and Pakistani Intelligence. Pearl was held captive for nine days while his […]
Blu-ray 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 […]
Blu-ray Review: Wonder Woman
In this direct-to-video animated release of Wonder Woman, the plot is based on George Perez’ reboot of the character. Specifically, the “Gods and Mortals” arc that started the character’s second volume back in 1987. The film presumes that Wonder Woman exists in a world of her own and there are no references to the greater […]