4K UHD Review: John Wick Chapters 1-3 Stash Book Collection
With John Wick: Chapter 4 hitting screens soon, Lionsgate has released the John Wick Chapter 1-3 Stash Book Collection, a collection of SteelBooks available exclusively at Best Buy. The first three Wick films are housed in a box resembling John’s “stash book” from the third film. Each SteelBook contains a 4K disc and a Blu-ray […]
Blu-ray Review: Jack the Giant Slayer
Another in a growing number of films that seek to offer alternate versions of popular fairy tales, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer reworks Jack the Giant Killer. As is often the case with these films, our hero has a surprising taste for destruction. While the Jack the Giant Killer narrative never truly soars, director […]
Blu-ray Review: Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been incredibly lucrative. The latest installment, On Stranger Tides, the fourth in the series, grossed $1,039,571,802 in worldwide box office. Regardless, the film seems lazy, as if this is a franchise in which the creative juices have run dry. Lacking the creativity, spicy wit, and visual structure that […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will set sail on DVD, stunning high definition Blu-ray™ and Blu-ray 3D™ on October 18th
BURBANK, Calif., July 14, 2011 — The Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films are proud to present the #1 worldwide box office success of 2011 – making over $1 billion globally – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, in stunning high definition Blu-ray™, eye popping Blu-ray 3D™ (a first for the legendary franchise) […]
Blu-ray Review: Case 39
Paramount | 2010 | 109 mins. | R Given how so many Hollywood films portray children, it’s a wonder many people choose to become parents at all. Countless horror films have portrayed children as spawns of Satan, demons from the underworld, and possessed spirits. Whatever the reason for Hollywood’s odd obsession, there is something inherently […]
DVD Review: Death Race (Unrated)
Death Race is a remake of the 1975 cult classic, Death Race 2000. While the film will never show up on any lists of the best films ever made, it had an interesting take on what would take place in the United States in the year 2000. The film starred David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and […]
Blu-ray Review: Hot Rod
It seems like Paramount has been releasing Blu-ray titles by the boatload over the last few months. As an enthusiastic adapter of the high-definition technology, most of the time I’m more than happy to embrace any new title that comes across my desk; however, that doesn’t mean that I’m not befuddled by the order of […]