Blu-ray Review: Dr. Doolittle – Million Dollar Mutts
Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts is the fifth film in the updated franchise. Directed by Alex Zamm (Inspector Gadget 2), this direct-to-video film can only be described as innocuous. With talki8ng animals and the slimmest of what might be considered a plot; Million Dollar Mutts might appeal to very young children but doesn’t really have […]
Blu-ray Review: Big
For whatever reason, Hollywood studios inundated the movie going public with a series of body switching movies at the end of the ’80’s. Like Father Like Son got things going in October 1987, then March through June 1988, Vice Versa, 18 Again and Big were released in a cluster. Most of these films came and […]
DVD Review: Enchanted April
Based on the 1922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, Enchanted April is a wonderful gem of a movie. Released in 1992, it is the story of two married women quietly living unhappy lives. One day, Lottie (Josie Lawrence and Rose (Miranda Richardson), impulsively decide to escape their depressing lives in post World War I London […]
Blu-ray Review: Bride Wars
I like both Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson but Bride Wars is offensive, simplistic and mundane. Marketed as a romantic comedy, the film directed by Gary Winick (13 Going on 30, Tadpole) and written by Greg Depaul (Saving Silverman), Casey Wilson (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) and June Diane Raphael (I can’t believe it took […]
Blu-ray Review: The Matrix (10th Anniversary Blu-ray Book, w/ Bonus Digital Copy)
Released in 1999, The Matrix is credited by many with helping to push the fledgling DVD market into the big time. I actually bought the first DVD release of The Matrix the first day it was in stores. I remember being absolutely mesmerized at how good the action scenes looked on the big screen; she […]
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 […]
Blu-ray Review: Quo Vadis
One of the earliest epics Hollywood would produce, when Quo Vadis was released in November of 1951, it set in motion a wave of dramatic epics that would continue throughout the decade. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Ben Hur (1959), The Ten Commandments (1956) and El Cid (1961), were likely inspired at least in […]
DVD Review: Return from Witch Mountain (Special Edition)
Often times, the most beloved films, generate the most dreadful sequels. As I said in my review of Escape to Witch Mountain, I was a huge fan of that film, having viewed it numerous times on television. However, it’s sequel, Return from Witch Mountain, failed to capture my imagination; I only remember watching it once […]
DVD Review: Escape to Witch Mountain (Special Edition)
I absolutely loved Escape to Witch Mountain as a child, so I was pretty excited when I heard it was being released on DVD again. The release is undoubtedly timed to coincide with the remake, Race to Witch Mountain starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Alexander Ludwig and AnnaSophia Robb. Judging by the trailer, the remake […]
DVD Review: Ace Ventura Jr. – Pet Detective
Even if you understand motion picture studios have always milked a franchise whenever they saw the chance, sometimes you still have to ask why. If a movie is popular enough, especially a comedy, a studio is bound to follow it up with a sequel or two. Warner Bros. followed up 1994’s Ace Ventura: Pet Detective […]