Blu-ray Review: The Jonas Brothers – The 3-D Concert Experience
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 76 mins | Rated G In some form or another, boy bands have been around almost since the birth of rock ‘n roll. Cute and attractive, the largely female demographic of the music buying public loves them. The fifties brought us Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, with the […]
DVD Review: Woodstock – 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director’s Cut)
Warner Bros. | 1970 | 224 mins | Rated R Is it just me, or does 1969 seem like a long time ago? The idea of peace and free love seems like such a foreign concept to me, a person born in the early seventies who grew up in the midst of the Aids crisis […]
Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever
Say what you will but Saturday Night Fever is probably one of the most culturally significant films of the last fifty years. Released in the United States on December 16, 1977 Saturday Night Fever not only revolutionized the movie and film industries but also changed the way people dressed, communicated and socialized. Tight bell bottoms, […]
Blu-ray Review: Grease (Rockin’ Rydell Edition)
Grease is the word, baby. One of the most celebrated movie musicals ever, Grease has managed to find an audience across all gender race and age boundaries and maintain its tremendous popularity some thirty years after the film premiered in the United States on June 16, 1978. The enduring popularity of Grease is fairly easy […]
DVD Review: Skins – Volume 2
The second series of Skins, a BAFTA-winning teen drama created by father and son television writers Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain, is notably darker and more dramatic in tone than its predecessor. The series is an unflinching attempt to capture the lives of a group of young people on the verge of adulthood. Tony (Nicholas […]
Blu-ray Review: Gigi
Gigi has finally arrived on Blu-ray, looking better than I’ve ever seen it before. Released in 1958, the film reunited director Vincent Minnelli with producer Arthur Freed, Alan Jay Lerner and actress Leslie Caron. After the success of An American in Paris, Freed and Minnelli were more than happy to put a new twist on […]
Blu-ray Review: Pinocchio (70th Anniversary Platinum Edition)
After having such tremendous success in 1937, with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs–which marked the first time animation was used to produce an entire feature length film–some were skeptical when Walt Disney decided to follow it up with yet another animated movie. Moviegoers wondered if a second animated film could hold the attention of […]
Blu-ray Review: Cadillac Records
Written and directed by Darnell Martin (I Like it Like That), Cadillac Records chronicles the life of influential Chicago based record company executive Leonard Chess and the singers who recorded for Chess Records. Exploring the musical era from the early 1940’s to the late 1960s, the film examines the creative yet turbulent lives of some […]
Blu-ray Review: Madagascar – Escape 2 Africa
I enjoyed 2005’s Madagascar, so I was more than happy to sit down and take a look at the second installment. Part two picks up where the first movie left off, with the same group of animals, along with a few new ones and a brand new villain. Escape 2 Africa begins with a brief […]
DVD Review: Flashdance – I Love the ’80’s Edition
Flashdance arrived in U.S theaters on April 15, 1983. Critics hated the film but the public loved it. At Just ten years-old, I can remember how torn sweatshirts and leg warmers became must-haves. Because the movie was rated R, I didn’t get to see it in theaters but rented it a couple of years later […]