Home Video Releases: Captain America, Stand Up Guys and more
“Stand Up Guys”: Dramatic comedy about three aging gangsters (Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin) who reunite after years apart. It isn’t a simple get-together, however, as one of them is carrying a dangerous secret. Directed by Fisher Stevens. “True Blood” – The Complete Fifth Season: Twelve fresh episodes of the ongoing HBO [...]
Beautiful Creatures based on 2009 novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Beautiful Creatures 2 stars Rated PG-13 for violence, scary images and some sexual material Warner Brothers Available on: DVD, Blu-ray, digital download and on demand With the popularity of the “Twilight” books and movies, supernatural romance is all the rage, and “Beautiful Creatures” is the latest entry in the genre. The film, based on [...]
Side Effects veers from one place to another making difficult to gauge
Side Effects 2½ stars Rated R for sexuality, nudity, violence, and language Universal Available on: DVD, Blu-ray, digital download and on demand The Steven Soderbergh thriller “Side Effects” veers from one place to another with such ferocity that it’s often difficult to gauge what it’s trying to say. At one moment, it feels like a [...]
Parker a professional thief with an interesting code of ethics
Parker 3 stars Rated R for strong violence, language throughout and brief sexual content/nudity Sony Available on: DVD, Blu-ray, digital download and on demand It would be nice to see Jason Statham try something more demanding than his standard, tough-guy role. Still, he has so thoroughly perfected the part that it’s easy to enjoy his [...]
The Last Stand is an old-school Schwarzenegger film
The Last Stand 2 stars (out of four) Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, and language Lionsgate Available on: DVD, Blu-ray, digital download and on demand Although Arnold Schwarzenegger has made cameo appearances in a number of films over the past decade, “The Last Stand” marks the former California governor’s reappearance as a marquis [...]
Roll over, Dante: Dan Brown’s Inferno is one hell of a novel
Four years after Dan Brown’s fourth novel featuring art symbologist Robert Langdon, The Lost Symbol, became a huge bestseller, his latest offering, Inferno, based on Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy, is here to set the publishing world ablaze. Dan Brown’s prose style has been described as being hackneyed, but his short chapters, complex plots, [...]
Home Video Releases: Dexter, Liz &Dick, Warm Bodies and more
Delmer Daves Westerns: The Criterion Collection is serving up freshly restored versions of two movies by talented studio director Delmer Daves. The most recognizable is “3:10 to Yuma,” a 1957 effort that spawned a 2007 remake. The film focuses on a rancher (Dan Evans) charged with escorting an outlaw (Glenn Ford) to the train [...]
Cloud Atlas Changed Hollywood
Cloud Atlas 3½ stars (out of four) Rated R for violence, language, sexuality/nudity and some drug use Warner Brothers Available on: DVD, Blu-ray, digital download and on demand The filmmaking Wachowski siblings, Lana and Andy, changed Hollywood with their 1999 science-fiction hit “The Matrix,” but their follow-up projects have been less exciting. Although financially [...]
Texas Chainsaw may be the seventh entry in the horror franchise
Texas Chainsaw 2 stars Rated R for grisly violence and language throughout Lionsgate Available on: DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, digital download and on demand “Texas Chainsaw” may be the seventh entry in the horror franchise developed by producer-director Tobe Hooper way back in 1974, but the plot is decidedly retro. Set immediately after the original [...]
THE GREAT GATSBY: A Race To The Summer Box Office
Will the classic American tale of F. Scott Fitzgerald as told through the lenses of Buzz Lurhmann make it as one of the top money making summer movie this season? Will this great American Dream soar high to the box office charts or will just be one of those summer flicks? All of these and [...]
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