I Wanna Hold Your Hand Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Close Your Eyes And I’ll Zemekis You
By I finally see Robert Zemeckis’s first movie, the charming Beatlemania comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand, on Criterion Collection Blu-ray.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Blu-Ray Review – Behind the Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was the best Spider-Man movie since Sam Raimi directed them. There are plenty of Easter eggs and background jokes to get, and sophisticated animation to freeze frame, but mainly you’ll just want to watch this movie over and over again. On Blu-ray you get a whole Continue Reading
The Craft Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray Review: Witches, Man
I was finishing my freshman year of college when The Craft came out. Even though I was a college boy I still related to high school characters, and I loved this Wiccan quartet. It was sort of that usual movie cliche of they’re supposed to be the awkward outcasts of Continue Reading
Man’s Best Friend Blu-Ray Review: Gore Hound
I am so happy Man’s Best Friend finally got a Blu-Ray release. I saw it in 1993 as a horror fan but was won over by its twisted take on the friendly dog movie. After K-9, Turner and Hooch and Beethoven, I loved seeing that genre with a killer dog. Continue Reading
Green Book Blu-Ray Review: HD Road Trip
Green Book won the Oscar for Best Picture two weeks ago. It’s not a bad movie, because Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are so good as Tony Lip and Doc Shirley, they overcome sometimes oversimplified material. We may not be ready to settle the debate on whether or not it Continue Reading
Cobra Blu-ray Review: VHS Is A Disease, Blu-Ray Is The Cure
Whoever has home video rights to MGM will keep releasing new editions of Rocky and Lionsgate will keep pumping out new editions of the Rambo films. Shout! Factory got their hands on Stallone’s 1986 cop movie Cobra. I was away at Sundance when the Blu-ray came out and then had Continue Reading
Kalifornia Blu-Ray Review: Psycho Road Trip
Kalifornia was not a movie I liked but disliked it in a memorable way. Weird asides like a truck stop patron peeing out of a tube and dogs humping made Kalifornia stand out. Brad Pitt certainly gave his all as an unhinged killer and Juliette Lewis as his abused girlfriend, Continue Reading
Creed II Blu-Ray Review: Deleted Scenes Should’ve Stayed In The Ring!
When Stallone announced that Creed II would bring back Ivan Drago, it may have seemed like it was too soon to dip back into the Rocky IV well. Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) had just established his own character. He didn’t need to fight Rocky’s old battles just yet. But Continue Reading
Instant Family Blu-ray Review: The Real Stories Behind the Scenes
Instant Family was a poignant, touching comedy I was recommending all through the holidays. Yes, it delivers the Mark Wahlberg family comedy you’d expect from the creator of Daddy’s Home, but it also goes pretty deep into the difficulty of adoption on both sides, for the parents and the foster Continue Reading
A Star Is Born Blu-Ray Review: Behind the Music
Every time they make A Star Is Born it gets nominated for lots of Oscars. That’s because I think it’s such a classic story, as long as you don’t mess it up you’ll have a good movie, as this fourth iteration of it shows. The picture looks stark and real Continue Reading