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Howards End: Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review

October 29, 2009

With a 40-plus year run resulting in over 30 motion pictures, Merchant Ivory productions is best known for period pieces emphasizing award winning sets, cinematography and adapted screenplays. For my viewing preferences, these facets were rarely compelling enough to make… Read More

4.5

out of 5

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan Blu-ray Review

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October 26, 2009

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, directed by William Adama himself Edward James Olmos, offers fans of the series one last chance to say goodbye and the show's creative team a first (and last?) opportunity to tie together several dangling loose ends.… Read More

4.3

out of 5

Star Trek The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray Review

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October 22, 2009

Paramount set a high bar with the Star Trek Movie Collection featuring the original series cast earlier this year. Those standards carry through to the second half of the complete series run, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture… Read More

4.2

out of 5

The Children Blu-ray Review

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October 19, 2009

The cover for Lionsgate's The Children (2009) touts that it is "From The Makers of The Evil Dead Trilogy," so I was expecting Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spiderman, Drag Me to Hell) attached as a producer or in some similar… Read More

4.0

out of 5

The Girlfriend Experience Blu-ray Review

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October 13, 2009

The Girlfriend Experience (2009) covers several days in the life of a high-end escort in Manhattan. Media coverage surrounding this independent effort from director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich) highlighted his choice of adult film star, Sasha Grey, to portray… Read More

3.6

out of 5

Drag Me to Hell Blu-ray Review with D-BOX

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October 12, 2009

Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell harkens back to the filmmaker's early pre-Hollywood years that produced The Evil Dead and its hilariously gross sequel, Dead by Dawn. Only this time the hero is an inferior heroine, CGI intermingles with practical… Read More

3.8

out of 5

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-ray Review

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October 8, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was one of the first big summer movies out of the gate which naturally translated to being the first big summer movie to arrive on home video. With it comes a pair of alternate endings, one those… Read More

4.2

out of 5

Away We Go Blu-ray Review

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September 29, 2009

Upon finishing Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road (2008) it felt like the life had been drained out of me. While impeccably produced and acted, the film is so emotionally heavy and unrelentingly depressing, I am relieved there was not a firearm… Read More

4.0

out of 5

Braveheart: Sapphire Series Blu-ray Review

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September 29, 2009

Paramount's new Sapphire Series Blu-ray Disc line is designed to give the best of the best high definition treatment to the most requested and cherished films in the studio's catalog. Titles fans have been clamoring for since the format first… Read More

4.8

out of 5

Observe and Report Blu-ray Review

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September 21, 2009

All I was aware of going into Observe and Report (2009) was Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad) plays a security guard at a mall suffering emotionally scarring attacks from a malicious flasher. Being a sucker for Rogen's brand of wacky,… Read More

3.0

out of 5