Blu-ray Review: Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 2
Released in 2007, Pixar’s first collection of short films offered a glimpse of the company’s evolution from 1984 through 2006. Watching that first collection, it’s fascinating to witness the tremendous leaps in CGI that were occurring during Pixar’s earliest efforts. Watching this recently released second collection—which covers 2007 through 2012—it’s impossible not to admire Pixar’s […]
Catch Me If You Can Arrives on Blu-ray December 4th
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – The extraordinary true story of a brilliant master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail makes its high definition debut when CATCH ME IF YOU CAN arrives on Blu-ray December 4, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Oscar®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks star in the “supremely […]
Blu-ray Review: The War – A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
As one of the most pivotal events in American and World history, there is no shortage of documentaries and films based on World War II. In 2007, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick debuted The War on PBS, a six-part 15-hour epic that explained the War through the stories of the men who fought it and […]
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: Toy Story 3
Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 103 mins. | G Pixar hit another home run, extending an amazing streak of successes that stretches all the way back to the original Toy Story, which changed the face of feature length animation when it reached theaters in 1995. Now, 15 years after their original debut and 11 years […]
Blu-ray Review: Saving Private Ryan
Paramount Pictures | 1998 | 169 mins. | Rated R There have been many great films about the atrocities of war. Each tells their story in a different way—a different angle or perspective. Each have brought tales of heroism and intrigue; while a select few have been brave enough to explore the failures and death […]
Blu-ray Review: Toy Story 2
Disney / Buena Vista | 1999 | 92 mins. | Rated G Four years after Pixar changed the face of animation with Toy Story, they came roaring back into theaters with Toy Story 2. Certainly expectations were high, but rarely does a sequel manage to exceed expectations the way this one did. Similar to the […]
Blu-ray Review: Toy Story
Disney / Buena Vista | 1995 | 81 mins. | Rated G Animation can be divided into two generations—before Toy Story and after Toy Story. By the mid 1990’s, computer animation was regularly used in traditionally animated films to aid in the creation of particularly complex scenes, but the idea of creating an entire animated […]