4K UHD Review: Demolition Man (Collector’s Edition)
The early 1990’s weren’t particularly kind to Sylvester Stallone. Rocky V (1990) received lukewarm reviews and underperformed at the box office. Sly then starred in a couple of poorly received comedies—Oscar (1991) and Stop or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)—before returning to the action genre with Cliffhanger, (1993), finally, a relative box office success. A […]
Gravity (Blu-ray)
Redefining the use of cinematography, visual, and sound effects, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is a truly unique cinematic experience. Opening the film with a 17-minute “unbroken” shot, it’s quickly apparent that the camera is as important to the story as any character. As astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), perform a spacewalk […]
Blu-ray Review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, centers on nine-year-old Oskar Schell who lost his beloved father in the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. While some have suggested that using such a young boy to tell a story like this is emotionally manipulative, in a larger context, Extremely […]
Blu-ray Review: The Blind Side
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 128 mins. | Rated PG-13 Based on a portion of Michael Lewis’ 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, The Blind Side strikes some as simply an overtly sentimental, manipulative tearjerker; the likes of which movie-goers have seen countless times before. Some of that is probably justified. Writer/director […]
Blu-ray Review: The Proposal
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 108 mins. | Rated PG-13 At first glance, The Proposal looks like your standard romantic comedy: she’s a cold-hearted boss; he’s her abused personal assistant. In order to avoid being deported to her native Canada, she tells the immigration office that he’s her fiancé—they just happen to be […]