Blu-ray Review: Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken (Collector’s Edition)
DreamWorks Animation’s latest offering Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken seemed prime for success, given its prime June release date and legions of kids at home for summer break. Surprisingly, the film flamed out, earning $43 million worldwide, barely half of its $70 million budget. Now available on digital, Blu-ray and DVD, it’s likely the movie about […]
Enough Said (Blu-ray)
Enough Said is a sweet film. The latest effort from writer-director Nicole Holofcener (Lovely and Amazing) is an intelligent romantic comedy starring the late James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Both actors work through a series of complex emotions, all of them realistically carried out and universally understood. The sensitivity that James Gandolfini shows throughout makes […]
Blu-ray Review: Fright Night (2011)
In the interest of full disclosure, I should state that for some odd reason, I’ve never seen the original Fright Night released in 1985. While some may believe that makes me unqualified to judge the recent Craig Gillespie remake. I figure this: while I can’t tell you how this one compares to the original, not […]
Blu-ray Review: Velvet Goldmine
“We set out to change the world,” laments Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) to New York Herald journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), “and ended up changing only ourselves.” “What’s wrong with that?” the reporter responds quizzically. “Nothing…if you don’t look at the world.” After that scene near the end of 1998’s Velvet Goldmine, the camera spins […]