DVD Review: Air Bud – Special Edition
Back in 1997, when I first heard about Air Bud a film that revolved around a basketball playing golden retriever, I thought “there’s another way someone’s trying to make a buck off Michael Jordan’s...
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DVD Review: Ace Ventura Jr. – Pet Detective
Even if you understand motion picture studios have always milked a franchise whenever they saw the chance, sometimes you still have to ask why. If a movie is popular enough, especially a comedy, a studio is bound to follow it up...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Futurama – Into the Wild Green Yonder
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder arrives on Blu-ray, the fourth of a planned quartet of direct-to-home-video releases centered on Matt Groening’s (The Simpsons: The Movie) FOX animated television program, Futurama....
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Primal Fear
Primal Fear is probably best known as the film that launched the career of the then unknown Edward Norton. Since Primal Fear’s release in 1996, Norton has gone on to a variety of eye opening projects and award winning...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Cadillac Records
Written and directed by Darnell Martin (I Like it Like That), Cadillac Records chronicles the life of influential Chicago based record company executive Leonard Chess and the singers who recorded for Chess Records. Exploring the...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: The French Connection II
History has shown that film sequels can be a risky proposition; for every Godfather II, there’s a Grease 2. While The French Connection II certainly isn’t the failure that was Grease 2, it has been well documented...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Watchmen – The Complete Motion Comic
British writer Alan Moore (From Hell, V for Vendetta), British cartoonist Dave Gibbons, and British writer and artist John Higgins combined talents in the mid 1980s to create a series of twelve DC Comics depicting the adventures...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: A Mighty Heart
Based on the memoir of the same name by Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart is the tragic story of American journalist Daniel Pearl. A reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Pearl was abducted by Pakastani militants while investigating...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: The Kite Runner
As a voracious reader, if a book is made into a film, chances are I’ve read it. Strangely, before seeing The Kite Runner, I had not read the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini. I don’t quite know why, whether it...
Read MoreJean Harlow (March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937)
Born Harlean Carpenter,the dentist’s daughter eloped at age 16 with a young businessman and wound up in Los Angeles where she found work as an extra and bit player (examples: Moran of the Marines (1928) Liberty (1929) and...
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