Blu-ray Review: LOL
A remake of a 2008 French feature of the same name, LOL (“Laughing Out Loud”) is a baffling and somewhat annoying experience. The original film’s writer/director Lisa Azuelos has returned to helm her story about the tug-of-war between teens and adults. Clearly, those backing the project felt Ms. Azuelos was best qualified to re-imagine her […]
Blu-ray Review: Justin Bieber – Never Say Never
Pop teen idols have been around since pop music burst forth in the forth in the fifties. Every generation seems to have their own idols, and some last longer than others. When I was very young, Leif Garrett was huge. Girls created riots just trying to touch him; by the early eighties, he had fallen […]
Blu-ray Review: The Last Song
Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 107 mins. | Rated PG The Last Song marks the first time that wildly popular novelist Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, Dear John) wrote the novel and screenplay concurrently. The film was pitched to Disney as little more than a typical Nicholas Sparks heart tugger, starring Hannah Montana herself, Miley Cyrus. […]
Blu-ray Review: Hannah Montana – The Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 102 mins | Rated G Hannah Montana: The Movie, is another vehicle for Disney, Miley Cyrus and the others involved in the franchise to cash in on the “Hannah” phenomenon. The first big screen film for the pop teen superstar after the big, unexpected success of her 3-D […]
Blu-ray Review: Bolt
In any other year, Bolt would have won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, hands down. However, Wall-E was such an undeniably unique movie, it was impossible to deny the filmmakers the Oscar they received. By comparison, the story of a dog trying to save its owner has been done thousands of times in […]
DVD Review: Hannah Montana – The Complete First Season
Until a couple of weeks ago, I was a complete Hannah Montana neophyte. I had watched a few minutes of the show here and there on the Disney Channel, but I don’t think I ever sat down and watched a full episode of the series. Because I’m a reader of magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling […]