DVD Review: Boston Legal: Season Five
Created by David E. Kelley, Boston Legal was a spin-off of the long-running series The Practice, Boston Legal followed the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. A solid top twenty show in the Nielsen ratings, Boston Legal has the distinction of drawing […]
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 […]
Blu-ray Review: Three Days of the Condor
Rarely is the hero the reader, that user of mind not body. The routine of the reader is antithetical to that of the hero. The devourer of words is seen as passive, a spectator, an observer of others actions. All of which is unjust, for not only is knowledge power but words too have a […]
Blu-ray Review: American History X
Written by David McKenna (Blow), 1998’s American History X is one of films every adult should see. However, like Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, The Color Purple and a few others it’s likely a film you won’t rush to see again. Directed by first timer Tony Kaye, American History X is an unsettling story that […]
DVD Review: The Happening
M. Night Shyamalan burst on the international film scene with 1999’s The Sixth Sense, which was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He followed that success by writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2000. The film received mixed reviews and a lukewarm box office reception. Signs, released in 2002, […]
Blu-ray Review: Shrek the Third
Debuting in 2001, Shrek was a CG animated feature loosely based off the children’s book of the same name by William Steig. Telling the story of a hermitic swamp-dwelling ogre whose territory is overrun by displaced faerie tale creatures, the film was a wild and biting parody of the many cultural clichés stemming from classic […]
DVD Review: Stop-Loss
Director/screenwriter Kimberly Peirce can’t be accused of taking on easy subjects on her films. Her 1999 film, Boys Don’t Cry which chronicled the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a trans-gendered individual who preferred to identify as a male and was brutally murdered when it was discovered he was born a female, brought Peirce great acclaim. […]
DVD Review: Lars and the Real Girl
After being nominated for a for a Best Actor in 2007 for his role as Dan Dunne in Half Nelson, no one would have been surprised if Ryan Gosling took the opportunity to cash in and make a series of big budget blockbusters. At only 27, with boyish good looks, the Canadian-born actor could no […]
DVD Review: JAG (Judge Advocate General): The Fifth Season
JAG is a military drama about an elite legal wing of United States military officers, trained as lawyers who investigate and prosecute those accused of crimes in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The crimes include espionage, homicide, terrorism, hostage situations, conspiracies and more. The investigations take the crew all over the world in […]