Blu-ray Review: Ticket to Paradise (Collector’s Edition)
Well meaning but formulaic, Ticket to Paradise is a premise that works better as a trailer than a full-length feature. At 104 minutes it feels about 20 minutes too long and relies on the well-worn romantic comedy clichés. The filmmakers are banking on stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts, who long ago established their onscreen […]
August: Osage County (Blu-ray)
Based on Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County is the kind of drama many actors love to do: thick with dialogue, it gives multiple performers a chance to really chew some scenery. Packed with fighting, crying, drinking, and smoking, it lends itself to moments of great acting, both comic and tragic. At […]
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Coming to Blu-ray November 1
An A-List cast takes center stage this November as Lionsgate debuts Miramax’s Confessions of a Dangerous Mind on Blu-ray Disc for the first time. The Academy Award® winning* actor and Oscar® nominated** director, George Clooney, stars and directs the film adaptation of Chuck Barris’s cult classic memoir – the story of a television producer who […]
Blu-ray Review: Valentine’s Day
New Line Cinema | 2010 | 125 min | Rated PG-13 Boy, those folks at New Line are really crafty! They released a movie titled Valentine’s Day, just two days before the actual holiday. Since Hollywood is such a dream factory, director Gary Marshall (Pretty Woman) than goes on to make the holiday a bigger […]
Blu-ray Review: Mona Lisa Smile
Sony Pictures | 2003 | 117 mins. | Rated PG-13 Mona Lisa Smile is one of those movies you can’t help but watch and wonder what might have been. When I was tempted to refer to the film as Dead Poets Society light, but that would do a real injustice to the 1989 Robin Williams […]