Reviews of Blu-Ray movies
After Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner) receives a page from the 20 years missing Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), Flynn’s son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) investigates, only to be teleported into ‘The Grid’, a virtual reality world created by Flynn. The sequel to Tron, Tron Legacy is a blast. A sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears, it is … Continue reading »
When Billy (Sam Rockwell) and Hans (Christopher Walken) steal the dog of a notorious mobster, Charlie (Woody Harrelson), they find themselves on the run with the dog. Seven Psychopaths is impossible to sum up in one sentence. That single sentence above does nothing to describe what is actually going on in this film. Hell, in that … Continue reading »
An escaped bank robber, Jack Foley (George Clooney), falls for the Federal Marshal, Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), trying to re-capture him. Anyone who has seen Steven Soderbergh‘s (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Ocean’s 11) brilliant Out of Sight knows that there is a lot more going on with the plot of this film than that simple, one … Continue reading »
After riding the rails into Hope Town, a Hobo (Rutger Hauer) picks up a shotgun to dole out justice to the scum of the city. Hobo with a Shotgun is one of those movies that is just amazing. Feeling like a straight to video Troma film from the ’80′s, only with a better eye for … Continue reading »
The father of one of the men Bryan Mills killed in Paris while rescuing his daughter in the first Taken, seeks revenge on Mills and his family while on vacation in Istanbul. Directed by Oliver Megaton (Transporter 3, Colombiana), Taken 2 is an interesting take on what happens after the events of the first film. I found the … Continue reading »
When the evil Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) attempts to kidnap the princess of Druidia, Vespa (Daphne Zuniga), Lone Star (Bill Pullman) and Barf (John Candy) rescue her and try to foil his nefarious plans. Directed by Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein), Spaceballs is a spoof film parodying Star Wars among other successful science fiction franchises. While it occasionally … Continue reading »
A grandfather (Peter Falk) reads a story of true love to his sick grandson (Fred Savage). How can one man narrow the story of the wonderful The Princess Bride into a one sentence synopsis? There is so much at play in this story that it just isn’t possible. What appears on the surface as a by the … Continue reading »
When a group of Norwegian college students set out to make a documentary about a suspected bear poacher, they soon discover that this “bear poacher” is actually a troll hunter. Trollhunter is a mocumentary of sorts, with the opening cards telling you that the film was examined and believed to be real and is run in … Continue reading »
After cracking a mysterious code sent by his grandfather, Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and his stepfather Hank (Dwayne Johnson) venture to an island that isn’t supposed to exist. Based (very) loosely on Jules Verne’s classic novel The Mysterious Island, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is the sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, another film based … Continue reading »
Constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent from New York City to the small village of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murder purportedly committed by the Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken and Ray Park). Loosely based on the 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, and directed by Tim Burton … Continue reading »
