MAD MEN Season Two DVD Review
Who'd have imagined that television's best writing would be a soft drama on AMC and revolve around the lives of New York City advertising employees in the 1960s? Mad Men's second season continues the...
View ArticleWATCHMEN 2 Disc Director’s Cut DVD Review
After over two decades of controversy, fan anticipation, lawsuits, and thousands of naysayers claiming that it could never actually happen, Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen finally...
View ArticleANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL! DVD Review
Anvil! The Story of Anvil! is the most entertaining behind the scenes look at a heavy metal band since This is Spinal Tap, which is saying a lot. In fact, the two movies are so similar, one could...
View ArticleCADDYSHACK Blu ray Review
Reviewing Caddyshack is difficult. The film is not artful, high minded, or cerebral by any means. It never tries to be heady, sentimental or deliver a message to its audience. Instead, it’s...
View ArticleHOT TUB TIME MACHINE DVD Review
Hot Tub Time Machine is way better than it has any right to be. It’s the story of three forty-something men, Adam (John Cusack), Lou (Rob Cordry) and Nick (Craig Robinson). Once upon a time, twenty...
View ArticleRESCUE ME Season 6 – Gil Reviews the First 4 Episodes
Rescue Me’s sixth season (we’ve been allotted the first four episodes) kicks off as any fan of the show would expect it to – with Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) lying on the barroom floor where we last saw...
View ArticleTHE BREAKFAST CLUB 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review
Arguably the best high school movie ever made, John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club finally makes its way to Blu-ray. Punished with detention, a group of five students are sentenced to spend an entire...
View ArticleBULL DURHAM Blu ray Review
Writer-director Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham still resonates, twenty-two years after its release, as the baseball movie to hold all others up to. Veteran Catcher and minor-league veteran Crash Davis...
View ArticleJACOB’S LADDER Blu-ray Review
One of the most haunting and overlooked films of the 80s, Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder is a trip of a movie with a twist ending that it actually earns (I’ll not name the plethora of films guilty of...
View ArticleMIDDLE MEN Blu-ray Review
Loaded with sex, drugs, violence and nudity, Middle Men is the “inspired by” true story of Jack Harris (Luke Wilson), a Texas businessman (and family man) who is called in to serve as a company fixer...
View ArticleFRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: The Fifth and Final Season DVD Review
One of network primetime’s greatest series closes out with an incredibly strong season. The critically-lauded (but underwatched) Friday Night Lights takes its final bow with all the grace, eloquence...
View ArticleAMERICAN GRAFFITI Special Edition DVD Review
Back when he made good movies, and just prior to leaving an indelible impression on the cinematic landscape with Star Wars, George Lucas co-wrote and directed a low-budget masterpiece called American...
View Article13 ASSASSINS DVD Review
Set in 19th century feudal Japan, 13 Assassins is the story of well, thirteen assassins who are recruited to take out a sadistic overlord named Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki) before he finds protection with...
View ArticleYOUR HIGHNESS DVD Review
Your Highness, set in the medieval days of knights, dragons and sorcerers tells the story of two brothers. Fabious (James Franco) is the quintessential debonair prince, prone to victory in...
View ArticleTOTAL RECALL: Mind-Bending Edition Blu-ray Review
Sony’s move to release one of the greatest science fiction action films ever made on blu-ray just around the time they put out their all-flash-and-no-substance remake in theaters may only prove to be...
View ArticleBATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS PART 1 Blu-ray Review
Warner Premiere has some large shoes to fill with its adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns Part 1. Frank Miller’s graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns is considered by many to be the defining...
View ArticleBATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS – PART 2 Blu-ray Review
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 picks up where Part 1 left off. Batman’s return to an exorbitantly crime-ridden Gotham has been felt across the city – he’s wanted by the cops, the citizens are...
View ArticleKICK-ASS 2 Blu-ray Review
Continuing the story not far from where the original Kick-Ass left off, the sequel Kick-Ass 2 finds its hero (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) teaming up with a group of ordinary citizens looking to rid the...
View ArticleA MOST WANTED MAN Blu-ray Review
A Checkan Muslim named Grigoriy Dobrygin (Issa Karpov) illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where we learn from an opening card was once the home of several 9/11 masterminds. The city has become...
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