Blu-ray Review: Coach Carter
I like Samuel L. Jackson. I think he’s a talented actor; the only problem is, sometimes I think he spreads himself a bit too thin. It seems like every time you turn around, there’s another movie with Sam in it. For every Pulp Fiction he seems to make two clunkers, who loved Snakes on a […]
Blu-ray Review: Jingle All the Way (Family Fun Edition)
In a departure from his usual role as an action star, in 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger took a stab at making a Christmas movie, Jingle All the Way. Arnold stars as Howard Langston, a successful businessman that always tells his retail clients that they are his “#1 customer” when on the phone. A type”A” personality, Howard […]
Blu-ray Review: The Heartbreak Kid
Ben Stiller’s quick to DVD version of The Heartbreak Kid is a prime example of why Hollywood sometimes needs to think twice about doing a remake. The Heartbreak Kid was originally done by Elaine May back in 1972 in a funny, sympathetic manner but in 2007, Ben Stiller and the Farrelly brothers made an unsympathetic […]
DVD Review: High Noon – 2-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by most film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate to him. As fellow film legend Clint Eastwood said of Cooper in the 1991 documentary, Gary Cooper: American […]
Blu-ray Review: Fred Claus
Every year, Hollywood cranks out two or three Christmas movies in hopes of making a classic that will stand the test of time. You know what I mean; become a move like It’s a Wonderful Life or the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street starring Natalie Wood–Films that become so identified with the Christmas […]
DVD Review: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Note: This double-sided DVD includes the movie in three formats: a full-screen version in 2-D, a widescreen version in 2-D, and a widescreen version in 3-D. You’ll find my comments about each of the formats in the Video section below. Journey to the Center of the Earth seems to be Hollywood’s go to novel when […]
Blu-ray Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull marks the fourth installment into one of Hollywood’s most beloved series of films. Even as a big fan of the series, I had my doubts; Indiana Jones first graced the screen back in 1981, some twenty-seven years ago. Could Harrison Ford, now in his sixties, still […]
DVD Review: Watership Down – Deluxe Edition
I was very young when Richard Adams’ Watership Down hit American movie theaters in 1978, but I do remember it seemed like every adult or teenager I knew had read or was reading the book, in preparation for the film. The plot is rather simple: Watership Down tells the tale of a group of rabbits […]
DVD Review: Grease – Rockin’ Rydell Edition
Ordinarily, I hate double dipping. In this case, double dipping means releasing the same DVD twice with exactly the same bonus material. Paramount released Grease: Rockin’ Rydell Edition back in September of 2006. Now, just two years later, the same edition has been released again, ostensibly to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the films theatrical […]
DVD Review: Son of Rambow
When you watch as many DVDs as I do, the bad ones are forgotten quickly and the good one tend to linger in your mind for awhile. I remember being in a movie theater sometime around May of this year (oddly, I can’t recall the feature I saw that day), where I saw a preview […]