Blu-ray Review: Asteroid City
Once again exploring love and loss, Wes Anderson’s latest film Asteroid City is everything his fans expect, with a dose of science fiction. Set in 1955, Asteroid City is a fictional location in the Southwestern United States. With a population of 87, the city gets its name from a massive “impact crater” at its core. […]
4K UHD Review: The Polar Express
Based on a children’s book, this modern holiday classic makes its debut on 4K UHD.
4K UHD Review Saving Private Ryan (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Blu-ray Review: The Circle
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Inferno (2016) (Blu-ray)
Inferno is the third in a trilogy of films based on Dan Brown best bestsellers. Like the first two films, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Inferno stars Tom Hanks as art historian and cryptologist Robert Langdon, who supposed to be genius material and perhaps he is, but why does he have to […]
Sully (Blu-ray)
Efficient and well-acted, Sully centers on the extraordinary events of January 15, 2009, when US Airways pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) landed his damaged Airbus A320 on the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers aboard. The culprit was a flock of birds that disabled the engines. While many will remember the […]
Bridge of Spies (Blu-ray)
In 1957, Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested in New York. Though the trial itself is for little more than show, the government wants it known that he was granted a fair legal defense. To that end, Former criminal lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor James Donovan (Tom Hanks), now working insurance law, is approached […]
Saving Mr. Banks (Blu-ray)
Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson star in a real life culture clash, as Saving Mr. Banks peels back the curtain to examine Walt Disney’s (Tom Hanks) twenty year quest to convince Mary Poppins author PL Travers to let his studio make her books into a film. Funny, yet sobering, Emma Thompson gives a quietly powerful […]
Blu-ray Review: Killing Lincoln
Based on Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s book of the same name, Killing Lincoln recounts one of the darkest events in American history, and details how one gunshot changed the country forever. Originally aired on The National Geographic Channel in February of 2013, the docudrama attracted 3.4 million viewers, making it the networks highest rated […]
Blu-ray Review: Catch Me If You Can
A lively caper inspired by true events, Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can never takes itself too seriously. Though classified a drama, the story contains enough comedy to keep viewers giggling at every turn. It also helps that the two leads, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, are capable of easily switching between drama and […]