All Entries in the "Blu-Ray" Category
On Blu-Ray: Evil Dead
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell
Anchor Bay has a stable of films they just seem to keep finding reasons to reissue in slightly updated form. Some examples are Halloween, Hellraiser, and the Evil Dead films. We get different boxes and some different bonuses features and on occasion new transfers of the films. Many critics have [...]
On Blu Ray: Diary of A Wimpy Kid: The Cheeseist Edition
Directed by Thor Freudenthal
Starring: Robert Capron, Chloe Moretz, Zachary Gordon, Grayson Russell
“Zoo Wee Mama!”
Robert Capron as Rowley
I didn’t know what to expect from this film. Based on the popular children’s book series written by Jeff Kinney with the first book of the series published in 2007, the whole Wimpy Kid phenomena somehow passed by me [...]
On Blu-Ray: LOST The Sixth and Final Season
Created by Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Starring Mathew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Emilie de Raven, Dominic Monaghan, Elizabeth Mitchell
Watching bonus features of on TV show DVD’s that have been cancelled or simply finished their runs usually means looking at interviews with cast [...]
On DVD/Blu-Ray: City Island
Starring: Andy Garci, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Ezra Miller, Emily Mortimer, Alan Arkin
Directed By: Raymond De Felitta
This is a movie about secrets. How secrets are like a balloon, each little supporting lie is just one more breath into the balloon, and how eventually every balloon goes boom and once that happens everybody [...]
On Blu Ray: Mona Lisa
Directed by Neil Jordan
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets”
Andre Malraux
There has always been something about Bob Hoskins I have always liked. Hoskins has the demeanor of an everyday, blue collar man that radiates a down to earth sincerity that instantly makes him [...]
On Blu Ray: James and the Giant Peach
Directed by Henry Selick
Featuring voices by: Joanna Lumley, Jane Leeves, Paul Terry, Davis Thewlis, Susan Sarandon
“Why don’t skeletons play music in church? Because they got no organs.”
Richard Dreyfuss as the Centipede
Henry Selick is an Oscar nominated stop motion director and writer best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas. But trust me, anytime you [...]
On Blu Ray: White Collar: The Complete First Season
Created by Jeff Eastin
Starring: Tim DeKay, Alexandra Daddario, Noah Emmerich, Matt Bomer, Willie Garson
“To solve the toughest crimes, hire the smartest criminal”. Does that tagline for this USA Channel show intrigue you? It did me. So, what did I think about the first season of White Collar?
On Blu-Ray: Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass gained a lot of notoriety because the creator of the story, Mark Millar, envisioned the concept as a film at the same time as a comic. As the early discussions of the film were happening Millar was partnering with John Romita Jr., one of the best artists in comics, to craft this truly unique [...]
On Blu-Ray: When in Rome
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
Starring Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel
Romantic comedies are a really tough genre of film for me. I want to like them, I want to like them. I want to feel that they are just delightful romps and two hours of escapism. On occasion I’m surprised and I feel just that. For example [...]
On Blu-Ray: Showgirls
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Robert Davi
“There’s always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.
Gina Gershon as Cristal
