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Take It For What It Is

We’ll be honest. The Expendables isn’t a good movie per se — and it certainly won’t be up for any golden statue nominations. If you approach the film as the ridiculous farce of a blockbuster action film that it is however, watch it and you’re bound to have a good time. We won’t divulge any [...]

Lucid Dream Sedatives Not Included

The Inception Blu-ray/DVD Briefcase Gift Set ($49) is an exclusive package only offered through Warner Brother’s WB shop and it’s the ultimate gift for Nolan fans still wondering if the top ever fell. Besides including both a Blu-ray and DVD copy of the movie, buyers also get seven Art Cards, “The Cobol Job Comic,” and [...]

Hey, You Guys!

There’s plenty about the 80′s that’s worth forgetting, but The Goonies shouldn’t fall on that list. Directed and produced by Richard Donner (who also happened to direct the Lethal Weapon movies and The Omen), and written by non other than Steven Spielberg, it’s no wonder the kids adventure was a tremendous success. The fact that [...]

It's "gonna mace you in the face"

Wes Anderson is a polarizing director. People either hate or love his films. End of story. The Darjeeling Limited ($25) tends to rank lower on his list of films, possibly because it was co-written by Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola instead of Owen Wilson or Noah Baumbach. But in our book it’s still a highly [...]

Yeah, He's Still Got It

A long time has passed since Get Carter, but catching Sir Michael Caine as the star of Harry Brown ($22) couldn’t help but get us excited. It may not have smashed any box office records, but this film is well on its way to becoming a cult classic. Now that it’s out on Blu-ray, you [...]

Dammit Jim... I Love This Movie

The unstoppable (and frustrating) J.J. Abram’s take on the Star Trek franchise reboots the much beloved sci-fi franchies to Warp 13, (reference) satisfying even the die-hard trekkies, this writer included. Today’s Blu-Ray release continues the lens-flare laden, action-packed, CGI maelstrom with TrueHD 5.1 sound, and visuals designed to take full advantage of all 1,080 lines [...]

Pacino. DeNiro. Mann.

To this day, Heat stands as one of director Michael Mann’s defintiive films, and certainly as a home movie essential. Who can forget the first movie to ever pair Robert De Niro and Al Pacino (at the same time, in a too-brief climactic scene), the tension riddled dramatic storyline, or what stands as one of [...]

1080p for 1000¢

How familiar does this sound? Now that you’ve upgraded the home theater to include Blu-Ray in the mix (right?), you’re bemoaning the fact that these glorious high definition movies are expensive, on average, when compared to their enhanced definition DVD counterparts. As a result, you’ve been hesitant to build any sort of collection and therefore [...]

Sir Paul In Stunning Hi-Def Fans of the Beatles, the ex-Beatles, or just plain good music will thrill and possibly even trill to the Blu-ray release of Paul McCartney’s 2005 US tour concert retrospective, Paul McCartney: The Space Within Us on high definition Blu-Ray disc. This concertourmentery expertly weaves a number of prominent celebrity interviews [...]

For Justice We Must Go To Don Corleone (or Blu-Ray) 36 years after that fateful Spring of 1972 we find ourselves presented with The Godfather Collection: The Coppola Restoration. A series that might (will) go down as the important films of our generation, now on high definition Blu-ray. Coppola himself has taken the painstaking time [...]