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The Peacemaker Blu-ray Disc Review

Mimi Leder is probably best known as a director of fine television programs, despite having a few meager cinematic successes under her belt. Her smaller-screen style of shooting might have something to do with the fact that her debut feature film, 1997s The Peacemaker feels like a pretty decent episode of The Unit or 24. …Continued…

Micmacs Blu-ray Disc Review

MICMACS! MICMACS! What the hell’s a MICMAC?! I enjoyed all 105-minutes of Jean-Pierre Jeunet‘s latest fantastical opus on Blu-ray but was never once given a hint at what a Micmac might be! …Continued…

Letters to Juliet Blu-ray Disc Review

You know, I really don’t mind a good rom-com. There’s something comfortable, something so familiar about the genre. But watching the new Blu-ray edition of Letters to Juliet makes me believe that I just might be burned out on the formula and the structure of it all. …Continued…

Stardust Blu-ray Disc Review

I’ve been waiting three years to see Stardust. After missing my chance to catch it in the theatre, I held out for an eventual release of the film on Blu-ray – a release I was beginning to feel might never come to pass. After all this time, years spent avoiding the film on DVD, HD-DVD and cable, I’ve finally been able to see Stardust on Blu-ray. And let me tell you, it was worth the wait! …Continued…

Stargate SG-U: 1.5 Blu-ray Disc Review

I’ve never been a huge fan of studios releasing a season one half at a time, but this time, it worked out nicely. Watching the first half of Stargate Universe on Blu-ray during the mid-season break turned out great for me. I was able to catch up and then continue along with the show as the new episodes aired (Yes, I still watch TV shows as they air). Even after watching the episodes on TV, I was super glad when the Stargate Universe 1.5 Blu-ray set was released. I am now a fan. …Continued…

Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season Blu-ray Disc Review

Count me among the legion of viewers and fans who were left empty by the Lost series finale. What a disappointment. It was a lackluster conclusion to an imperfect season of television. The same can’t be said for the Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season Blu-ray disc set. Aside from the show itself, there’s very little to take issue with here. …Continued…

Dexter: The Fourth Season Blu-ray Disc Review

Man, I tried so hard to avoid watching the Dexter tv series. I mean, the whole premise of a cop who moonlights as a serial killer just seemed ridiculous to me. That is, until I was suckered into watching it by a friend. And then I was hooked. And boy, am I ever glad I am because this latest, fourth season of the show is a doozy! Probably one of the most riveting seasons of any tv show I’ve ever seen with one of the bravest, most shocking endings ever put to film! …Continued…

Deep Blue Sea Blu-ray Disc Review

Deep Blue Sea is a ridiculous movie featuring angry sharks with artificially enlarged brains, biting and smashing their way into a deep-sea research facility, chomping through every B-list and C-list star who gets in their way! Sounds exactly like the kind of movie you’d best avoid picking up on Blu-ray, right? Only if you’re averse to having a cracking good time… …Continued…

The Criterion Collection: Black Orpheus Blu-ray Disc Review

Until Fernando Meirelles‘ 2002 City of God, it can undoubtedly be said that the most famous and most influential film to come out of Brazil wasn’t a Brazilian film at all. French director Marcel Camus‘ Black Orpheus, set in the favelas of Rio during the sensory overload of Carnival, won the Palme d’Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign-language Film, introduced the Bossa Nova sound to the world and was responsible for creating an international sensation of its country of concern. …Continued…

The Criterion Collection: Crumb Blu-ray Disc Review

I grew up fascinated with comic books, spending as much time in the classroom creating cartoons as I did reading them afterward. When the documentary Crumb was released in 1995 it was like a sucker punch to my gut – seeing so much of my own passion for the medium on screen but filtered through the incredibly twisted mind of Robert Crumb and his eccentric family. …Continued…

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