Blu-ray Review: Clerks III
Having launched his career, the Clerks franchise is obviously near and dear to Kevin Smith’s heart. It doesn’t seem like a stretch to assume each entry of the franchise reflects the events in is life. Released earlier this year and four years after a severe heart attack, Kevin Smith doesn’t abandon the raunchy humor that […]
4K UHD Blu-ray Review: The Lego Batman Movie
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Justice League Vs. Teen Titans: Limited Edition Giftset (Blu-ray)
DC Entertainment’s recent release of the direct-to-Blu-ray Justice League Vs. Teen Titans offers up something for their younger fans. Directed by Sam Liu (Batman: Year One, All-Star Superman) from a script by Bryan Q. Miller (The Flash, Arrow) and Alan Burnett (Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond) a completely original idea, and not based on […]
Cesar Chavez (Blu-ray)
Since beginning his Hollywood career in the mid 1990’s, Michael Peña has proven to be one of the industry’s most reliable character actors, playing second fiddle to better known stars who don’t always possess his natural acting ability. In the rare occasion that Peña is giving a leading role, such as the cop drama End […]
The Spike Lee Joint Collection: Vol. 1 (Blu-ray)
With Disney’s recent release of the two-volume, four-movie Spike Lee Joint Collection, three additional films from the prolific, occasionally controversial, director Spike Lee. Vol. 1 features the well written and performed, character study 25th Hour (2002) and the gripping He Got Game (1998), each of which are very different, but showcase some of Spike Lee’s […]
DVD Review: Miss Representation
Sundance award winning documentary Miss Representation from filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom takes everything we know and have seen, from Disney, CNN, Fox, Hair commercials, to political campaigns and points out the painful discrepancy between the portrayal of men and women in the media. In a powerful hour and a half documentary, Jennifer Siebel Newsom narrates […]