Devil’s Knot (Blu-ray)
Over the past two decades, the story of the West Memphis Three has gotten tons of press coverage, and been the been the subject of three separate documentaries. Since the murdered bodies of three young boys were discovered in an Arkansas creek in 1993, rumors of satanic cults, corruption, and racism has attracted media from […]
Blu-ray Review: Cosmopolis
David Cronenberg and dull aren’t two words you see together very often, but the writer/director’s latest effort, Cosmopolis, left me wondering how characters can talk for so long and say so little. Cosmopolis offers up plenty of gratuitous nudity, but even that can’t save this disappointing effort. An adaptation of Don Delillo’s novel, the film […]
Blu-ray Review: Real Steel
Based in part on the 1956 short story “Steel” by Richard Matheson, Real Steel might be best described as souped up Transformers. Set in 2020, fans have decided that regular boxing is simply to tame. In an effort to satisfy audiences’ violent appetites, robot boxing was created; once promising boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is […]
Blu-ray Review: I Am Number Four
Given the massive success of the Twilight films, it should come as no surprise that Hollywood has gone into overdrive, trying to adapt specific types of stories for the screen–ones about mopey teenagers falling in love with just the right amount of action to persuade guys to accompany their girlfriends. Though the trailers for Disney’s […]