Reviews

Iron Man Blu-ray Review

Two Blu-ray Disc releases this holiday season possess the potential to provide a big boost to the format and bring in new Playstation 3 and Blu-ray Disc player owners in droves. Ironically both are comic book-inspired superhero flicks: Warner's The…  Read More
4.7
out of 5

Jerry Maguire Blu-ray Review

Jerry Maguire, released in 1996, proved to be director Cameron Crowe's first huge hit. Though he already had success with his screenplay for Fast Times At Ridgemont High and writing/directing Say Anything, Maguire easily surpassed all of his previous work.…  Read More
3.8
out of 5

Ghost Town Review: An Unexpected Surprise

Ghost Town, a romantic comedy by director David Koepp, is a fanciful and supernatural tale that is likely to become this fall's surprising classic date movie. The film is light-hearted and reminiscent of classics such as Heaven Can Wait and…  Read More
4.2
out of 5

Cool Hand Luke Blu-ray Review

Based on the novel by Don Pearce and now available on Blu-ray Disc, Stuart Rosenberg's 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke tells the story of former war hero and "natural born world shaker" Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), sentenced to two years…  Read More
4.0
out of 5

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PS3, Xbox 360 Review

The anticipation that builds around a perennially delayed high profile videogame typically reaches beyond reasonable expectations into a realm of impossibility. Just ask Silicon Knights about their recent critically lambasted franchise seed Too Human. Debate rages on even today, a…  Read More
4.0
out of 5

1408 Blu-ray Review

Movie adaptations of Stephen King stories span the gamut in quality from superb (the Shining, the Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me) to embarrassingly awful (Maximum Overdrive, Graveyard Shift). Mikael Hafstrom's 1408, while not the best in the ever growing catalog…  Read More
4.1
out of 5

Pale Rider Blu-ray Review

Pale Rider, released in 1985, is the last Western Clint Eastwood would direct and star in before his revisionist epic Unforgiven seven years later. Considering the closure given to his "Old West" mythology by that film, it is not likely…  Read More
3.5
out of 5

Heroes: Season One Blu-ray Review

Tim Kring's Heroes follows the lives of extraordinary people who boldly go where no ordinary man has gone before. Until now, the show was unable to go anywhere near a Blu-ray Disc with Universal opting to go the HD DVD-exclusive…  Read More
4.4
out of 5

Smart People Blu-ray Review

Smart People is probably one of, if not the most depressing romantic comedy in the history of cinema. What's funny is that spite of its odd mish-mash of depression and comedy, the film's formula actually works. Whereas films such as…  Read More
3.5
out of 5

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