Blu-ray Reviews
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Terminator 2 Judgement Day is a big part of my childhood. It easily an remarkable movie and my #1 movie in my list.Where The Terminator was spare,Terminator 2: Judgment Day pulls out the stops, setting the gold standard for expensive, explosive summer blockbusters. Cameron occasionally oversteps (I'm thinking here...more
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SH*TE* (September post)- how wrong was i!The Original review - (posted in septemember)This film has been on the books for years- after the 70's Sir Alec Guinness starring role in the same name- John le Carres story and well esteemed ...more
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4 grand adventures, 1 smashing collection!Sold in an eco-case. No featurette exclusively for "A Grand Day Out" In "A Grand Day Out" the backdrop for the moon is unbelievably grainy as is much of the short film. No...more
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A retro 80's-esque pop art fairy tale.Feature: Drive is a retro pop arty fairy tale that is funky, frantic, fractured and fabulously fierce. What a Drive! Many comparisons may connect to Walter Hills superb The Driver this has a c...more
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50/50 Blu-ray ReviewThis movie is almost the definition of "feel-good" and a perfect rainy day watch. If you're a fan of commentaries, that alone should be a reason to buy this set. Excluding the ...more
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MY GUILTY PLEASURE* I love it!The style, the slow-motion, though I missed out on an extravagant 3D spectacle, its still a lushly photographed beauty, that is ferocious, daunting, and is Milla’s franchise, her Ripley, and P...more
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THE CROW SOARS TO HDIt's taken some time, but The Crow finally gets the HD treatment here in North America and while it delivers some superb updates such as sound and picture, it staggers in the Special Features category...more
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In brightest day, In blackest night.....Great Cast Incredible Visuals Solid Action Sequences...more
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A clear example of what you can do with a small budgetParanormal Activity is a 2007 American supernatural horror film. Directed by: Oren Peli A suburban couple is haunted by what they believe to be a ghost. For those o...more
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A MARVEL of a Blu-Ray!“X Marks the Spot”: This interesting feature allows you to watch the film in a different mode which carries you into behind-the-scenes clips at the perfect moments during the film, It's ...more
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Look, I can see that you think you know me. But I don't know who you are. My name is Captain Colter Stevens.Any movie wrought for your own theory usually has potential to become a masterpiece in my eyes, and even though "Source Code" might not be perfect with the little things, its opened-discussion c...more
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Fly now with me, my brothers, sisters. And we will show the sky people that they cannot take whatever they want. And that this--THIS IS OUR LAND!For those who own a Blu-ray player, and are absolute movie geeks, will praise this extended collector's edition because of the way it focuses in on the making of the triumph "Avatar" is. Those interes...more
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It's a bold, hilarious, dramatic and heartfelt mixture of awesomeness captured on celluloid which not only continues the Coen's tradition of excellence, but blazes a trail of greatness for future Westerns to follow.(Reviewer's Note: This part of the review is my theatrical review which was posted before the the movie's release in December. I did watch the movie again on Blu-ray, although my thoughts on t...more
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The things I liked in I Am Number Four, I liked a lot, while the same could be said for the things I disliked. The result is an average-to-decent movie that could have been so much better.I have been a fan of director D.J. Caruso since his first feature, the wonderful and sadly underseen/underrated drama The Salton Sea. I really enjoyed his last feature, Eagle Eye, which was a ...more
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Overall, when one considers that this film was viewed as a pariah during the go-go 1980s, it is excellent to see that opinions have swung wildly the other way.On the face of things, Raging Bull tells the story of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta. We see him battle various boxers in the ring, win a lot, not go down when the mob wants him to...more
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You will really appreciate how ahead of its time the original Tron was, and how truly stunning Tron: Legacy is all in one package with this jam-packed five-disc set.This mammoth five-disc set contains Tron: Legacy Blu-ray, Tron: Legacy 3D Blu-ray, Tron: Legacy DVD, Tron: The Original Classic Blu-ray and a Digital Copy disc. To start, here's my review of T...more
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A great depiction of the Devine Comedy.Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic is a direct to DVD animated film released on February 9, 2010. Directed by: Shukou Murase, Yasuomi Umetsu, Mike Disa, Victor Cook, Jong-Sik Nam, Sang-Jin ...more
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Where Am I?There you go! Memento; the 10th Anniversary Special Edition on Blu-ray. Hope you enjoyed my review. Thumbs it up if you liked it and please leave me a comment below telling me what you thought or if y...more
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The world ended. Didn't you get the memo?Oh man, where to start... firstly, I suppose it would be good to note the aesthetic value of The Walking Dead. We've seen zombies done before, many times, but we haven't seen zombies done with this am...more
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Lois (Princess Leia): Aren't you a little fat to be a stormtrooper? Chris (Luke Skywalker): Well, stay here and rot, you stuck-up bitch!Definitely the first half of this trilogy, meaning all of Blue Harvest, and half of Something, Something, Something Dark Side. It seemed like that was when the best jokes occurred, and didn't fall bac...more