4K UHD Review: Mean Girls (2004)
Starring Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls is considered by many to be the best film of her career to date. Subsequent personal problems and brushes with the law made her a and a rare sight on the big screen in recent years. Based on the book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, Mean Girls was […]
Blu-ray Review: Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.
Having impressed with her directorial debut The Edge of Seventeen, Kelly Fremon Craig returns to the director’s chair for Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret an adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel. Margaret Simon (Abby Ryder Fortson) is a bright New Yorker. Her life is turned upside down when her mom Barbara (Rachel McAdams) […]
4K UHD Review: Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows
When Guy Ritchie signed on to direct 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, he said he sought to “make a very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture”, because it has been “a relatively long time since there’s been a film version that people embraced.” Given Sherlock Holmes $524,028,679 million box-office, it’s safe to say that […]
4K UHD Review: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sporting his remarkably convincing English accent for the first time since his Oscar nominated role in Chaplin, Robert Downey, Jr. takes on the lead role in director Guy Ritchie’s (Snatch) Sherlock Holmes. Equal parts buddy film and adventure, the detective is joined by his partner-in-crime-solving, Dr. John H. Watson (Jude Law), as they help Scotland […]
Blu-ray Review: Mean Girls (15th Anniversary Edition)
Mean Girls: 15th Anniversary Edition showed up at my door yesterday. Starring Lindsay Lohan, it’s considered by many to be the best film of her career to date. Subsequent personal problems and brushes with the law have made her a tabloid fixture and a rare sight on the big screen in recent years. Based on […]
Blu-ray Review: Disobedience
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Blu-ray Review: Doctor Strange
It took a few years, but Doctor Strange has finally entered the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse by way of a self-titled origin story. Though saddled with mandatory elements, the story offers enough ingenuity and excitement to keep viewers engaged. For those unfamiliar with his story, when we first meet Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), he is […]
Spotlight (Blu-ray)
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, Spotlight manages a fairly low-key vibe while dealing with a very difficult subject. Exceptional writing and an outstanding ensemble cast recount the true story about a group of newspaper journalists who exposed a massive child molestation scandal within the Boston Archdiocese that sent shock waves throughout the Catholic […]
Southpaw (Blu-ray)
Despite being formulaic from start to finish, Southpaw manages to pack an emotional punch largely due to the performance of Jake Gyllenhaal, who really sunk his teeth into the material and explored the psyche of his character. Gyllenhaal clearly spent a lot of time at the gym, bulking up to play brash, confident, yet vulnerable […]
A Most Wanted Man (Blu-ray)
A former member of the British Intelligence Services MI5 and MI6, John le Carré has established himself as a foremost writer of espionage fiction. Several of his works have been adapted into memorable films including: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (be it the miniseries or the recent film), The Constant Gardner, The Russia House, and The […]