4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Dredd
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DVD Review: Margaret
Looking for a bracing drama that makes you feel like you spent your evening well? Looking for involving characters embodied by actors who give such insightful, moving performances that you’re locked in all the way to the end, wondering what’s going to happen next and in what emotional shape you’re going to be in by […]
Blu-ray Review: The Darkest Hour
At the very least, the filmmakers hit on an interesting concept in deciding to tell the story of an alien invasion in which the malevolent beings are invisible for most of the film. Unfortunately, The Darkest Hour is amateurish, lifeless, and largely predictable. An art director who worked with David Fincher and Terry Gilliam among […]
Blu-ray Review: No Strings Attached
Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 108 mins. | R No Strings Attached was originally titled Friends With Benefits, which was changed due to a forthcoming Justin Timberlake-Mila Kunis comedy bearing the same name and a near-identical premise: longtime friends decide to have a purely physical relationship; hence, “No Strings Attached.” If you saw last year’s […]
DVD Review: Juno
When Juno was released in December of 2007, I paid very little attention. Knee deep in the throes of yet another Christmas season, a movie about a pregnant teenager wasn’t registering very high on my must-see list. Though I was thoroughly amused by director Jason Reitman’s 2005 film, Thank You For Smoking, I just didn’t […]