Blu-ray Review: The Last Kiss
A remake of the popular 2001 Italian film L’ultimo bacio, The Last Kiss is yet another tale of generational angst. Written by Paul Haggis (Crash) and directed by Tony Goldwyn (A Walk on the Moon), A group of thirty-year-olds are forced to deal with the issues that arise around friendships, relationships and commitments. At the […]
Blu-ray Review: South Park – The Complete Twelfth Season
South Park makes its debut on Blu-ray in its twelfth season. Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone continue to use the series to push the envelope of good taste and continue their longstanding tradition of skewering American culture and politics. As always, South Park isn’t for the faint of heart; crass and potentially offensive, […]
DVD Review: The Polar Express (Presented in 3-D)
Based on a short (32 pages), illustrated children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, directed by Robert Zemeckis, the guy behind such creative hits as Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, and Contact, all of them filled with fascinating characters and jnique sights for the eye, had a bit of a misfire […]
Blu-ray Review: The Love Guru
I freely admit I’m a movie freak. I regularly admit that I’ll sit through any film once in the hopes of finding some morsel of merit in each piece of celluloid I subject myself to. Even though I had read absolutely terrible reviews about Mike Myers’ The Love Guru, I went into it with an […]
DVD Review: Sundown – The Vampire in Retreat (Special Edition)
Generally, I’m not a big horror fan. However, I have always appreciated the work of David Carradine. Recently, I reviewed both Kill Bill films in which Carradine does a masterful job in the role of Bill. I had heard several months ago that Lionsgate was releasing a special edition DVD of a 1990 film, Sundown: […]
Blu-ray Review: Nixon – The Election Year Edition
Oliver Stone has pretty much cornered the market on films covering the time during the Vietnam War. His resume is rather impressive: Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven and Earth (1993) are all part of Stone’s Vietnam War trilogy while films including The Doors (1991), J.F.K. (1992) and Nixon (1995), […]
Blu-ray Review: Batman – The Movie, Special Edition
Though I wasn’t born yet when the original Batman series first captivated audiences when it premiered in January of 1966 on ABC, I watched the series in the eighties, whenever it showed up in syndication. Always a fan of superheroes, Batman and Superman has always topped my list of favorites. There is something about Batman, […]
DVD Review: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Three – The Years of Change
I never watched The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles when it began airing on television back in 1992. Now, having watched the series, repackaged as a series of films for the DVD release, I regret I didn’t watch the show much earlier. Based on the early life of Indiana Jones as he was growing up and […]
DVD Review: Love American Style – Season One, Volume Two
Paramount has recently released a three DVD set containing the remaining twelve episodes of the first season of Love American Style. The anthology series which usually consisted of three vignettes really broke the mold as far as what had been seen on television up to that point. Couples, married or unmarried were shown kissing in […]
Music Review: Shelby Lynne – Just A Little Lovin’
Just A Little Lovin’ finds Lynne taking on songs from Dusty Springfield’s 1969 classic, Dusty in Memphis. Ranked number 89 on Rolling Stone Magazines list of the top 500 albums of all time in 2005, Dusty in Memphis is considered by many (including me), to be one of the greatest R&B records off all time. […]