DVD Review: Being There – Deluxe Edition
For most, Peter Sellers is regarded as strictly a comic actor. This is understandable, given his iconic role as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. However, Sellers had lobbied for years to play the lead role in 1979’s Being There. Sellers had the rights to the Jerzy Kosinski novel before the movie went before the cameras. Sellers […]
Blu-ray Review: Nature’s Calling – Without a Paddle
Apparently, back in 2004, Paramount released a movie called Without a Paddle, where three city folk head into the wilderness for some crazy adventures. If you don’t remember it, you’re not the only one. I hadn’t even heard of it until I looked it up on IMDB.com. Surprisingly, Without a Paddle did well enough at […]
Blu-ray Review: Home Alone – Family Fun Edition
For a lot of people, Home Alone has become a part of their holiday tradition. I can’t believe it’s been almost twenty years since Home Alone hit theaters. Back in 1990, I thought the film was enjoyable, but I wasn’t caught up in the hysteria that surrounded the film’s star, Macaulay Culkin and his infamous […]
Blu-ray Review: Universal Soldier
While I’m not a big fan of horror films, I’ve always had a place in my heart for action films. Action movies of the eighties were about muscle bound machismo; think Schwarzenegger and Stallone–blow a few things up. Save the world. When the credits rolled ninety minutes later, the audience went home pumped up and […]
Blu-ray Review: Transsiberian
Over the years, countless filmmakers have attempted to create true, Hitchcockian style suspense films. Few of these films capture the imagination; fewer still give viewers a true feeling of suspense while watching them. Every once in awhile though, a film comes along that keeps you at the edge of your seat. Expertly constructed, Transsiberian created […]
Blu-ray Review: Dr. No – Ultimate Edition w/ Movie Ticket
The longtime New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote of James Bond in his review of Dr No on May 30, 1963: “Nonsense, you say. Of course, it’s nonsense — pure, escapist bunk, with Bond, an elegant fellow, played by Sean Connery, doing everything (and everybody) that an idle day-dreamer might like to do. […]
DVD Review: Pushing Daisies – The Complete First Season
Described by producers as a “forensic fairy tale,” Pushing Daises centers on a pie maker named Ned, who has the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. The problem is, another touch renders that person or thing dead again permanently. Further, if something is revived for more than one minute, […]
DVD Review: Pathology
Directed by Marc Schoelermann and written by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, creators of Crank (a 2006 film that has developed a bit of a cult following), Pathology received mixed reviews and a tepid box office response upon its release in April of 2008. Milo Ventmiglia stars as Dr. Ted Grey, a brilliant graduate of […]
DVD Review: Sleeping Beauty – 2 Disc Platinum Edition
Production began on Sleeping Beauty in 1951, voices were recorded in 1952, animation production took from 1953 until 1958, and the stereophonic musical score, partially based on Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name, was recorded in 1957. The film holds a notable position in Disney animation as the last Disney feature to use hand-inked cels. […]
Blu-ray Review: Madagascar
I don’t know what’s wrong with me. First it was Bee Movie and now Madagascar–lately; I’ve had a huge soft spot for computer animated, talking animal pictures. If you are currently suffering from that affliction, Dreamworks’ Madagascar is just the film for you. We are introduced to four zoo animals – the giant hippopotamus Gloria […]