4K UHD Review: Violent Night
What if jolly Saint Nick didn’t feel so jolly all the time? Better yet, what if Saint Nick could kick butt with the best of them? This is essentially the plot of Tommy Wirkola’s (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) Violent Night. Effectively mixing comedy with plenty of gore, the result is a story with a […]
4K UHD Blu-ray Review: The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
[amazon_link asins=’B071VSDK7R’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’85a80662-9197-11e7-8fca-51a6f4d26166′]As the first decade of the 2000’s came to a close, Matthew McConaughey’s career was in a bit of a rut. He had made a couple of largely forgettable comedies, Fool’s Gold, and Surfer, Dude. While 2009’s Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past had been a minor hit at the box office, […]
Walking with Dinosaurs (Blu-ray)
A visually stunning film, Walking with Dinosaurs is done in by a paper-thin story and low-brow dialogue. The film is based on a popular 1999 documentary series produced by the BBC and narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Using what would now be considered fairly primitive CGI, and live-action cinematography, the series sought to put viewers directly […]
Blu-ray Review: One For The Money
In an attempt to get her floundering film career back on track, Katherine Heigl took a shot at playing beloved character Stephanie Plum, the heroine of author Janet Evanovich’s long-running series of mysteries. On paper, One for the Money probably seemed like a safe, wise career move. After all, Stephanie Plum has a built in […]
Blu-ray Review: Ice Age – A Mammoth Christmas Special
Here’s the deal with this one: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special runs only twenty-five minutes (twenty-two if you don’t count the credits). It was created as a TV special (it first aired less than a week before this disc hit shelves), hence both the running time and its decidedly trivial nature. However, with the […]
Blu-ray Review: Moulin Rouge
20th Century Fox | 2001 | 128 mins. | PG-13 After decades of box office dominance, the movie musical fell largely out of favor. With the exception of a couple of notable Disney productions, many studios seemed to abandon the musical genre altogether. Writer/director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo & Juliet, Australia) has never been a man […]