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Glee: The Complete First Season (Blu-Ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on September 30th, 2010

Most people who actually know me can say that I do love to sing. Much of my singing is relegated to a combination of karaoke and Xbox 360 games (Lips/Rock Band). But a long time ago, I wasn’t very comfortable with my singing. Had I been comfortable, I might have joined my school’s glee club. Fast forward a few years and we have a show about a high school glee club. Its funny how you can miss an experience you have never had.
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The League: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 30th, 2010

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“God bless fantasy football. There are many things a man can do with his time. And this is better than most of those things.”

I’m a big football fan. I watch the Vikings from my high-definition theater here in Tampa, Florida thanks to the wonderful invention of the Sunday Football Ticket. No, this is not an advertisement for DirecTV. In fact, don’t get me started on the problems these guys cause me every year. The point is, the Sunday Ticket allows me to watch my favorite football team even if it’s not the local losers. I think that was how it was intended to work. But lately fantasy football has literally taken over the sport.
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Order (2003) (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on September 27th, 2010

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The Plot: The Order, disappointingly, turned out to be not much more than a Heath Ledger vehicle, apparently targeted at Goth teenage girls with vaguely Euro pretensions. Without letting out any spoilers, trust me when I say that you’ll be disappointed if you expect anything like what the trailer portrays. The trailer says implies that the Vatican is “using a killer with supernatural powers to absolute control of an empire” and paints the movie as a fast-paced action/thriller church conspiracy film – which it isn’t. What is it? Part drama, part horror, very “moody,” totally boring.
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Iron Man 2 (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 24th, 2010

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Jon Favreau’s Iron Man was one of the happy events of 2008. It was a superb piece of super-hero entertainment, one that handled lightning-quick shifts in tone (grimness in Afghanistan, hilarity in Malibu) with a deftness that made the very hard work look very easy. It also reassured comic fans and mainstream audiences alike that there were still terrific movies to be made based on Marvel characters, reassurance that was sorely needed in the wake of the dire Spider-Man 3. So, the question with Iron Man 2 is, given the returning director and cast, was that same magic recaptured? The answer is a delighted yes.
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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 5 (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 23rd, 2010

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Ever wonder what the kids of South Park might be like if they ever made it to adulthood? While I’ve not seen that many episodes of the FX series It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, that was the first observation that came to mind. These are the South Park kids all grown up. They’re crude, raunchy, mean, and most importantly, they are as politically incorrect as ever. If you need an example, I can offer one right from this episode. The guys have a Christmas tradition that dates back to their childhood of throwing rocks at moving trains.
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Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 22nd, 2010

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“Some people say that fairies are the stuff of fantasy. They think the world is just what you can touch and hear and see, while others say the tales and legends cannot be dismissed. They believe with all their hearts that fairies truly do exist. Through all of time, human beings and fairies never met, till one special summer that we shall not soon forget.”

Tinker Bell has been a Walt Disney icon almost since its inception. The character has gone way beyond her appearance in Peter Pan. In the decades since, she has come to represent the magic of Walt Disney and its many incarnations.
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American Beauty (Sapphire Series) (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 21st, 2010

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Alan Ball was pretty much an unknown to anyone but a few Hollywood insiders and fans of such television shows as Grace Under Fire and Cybill, where he wrote a mere total 10 episodes combined. When he began to shop the idea for American Beauty, he had originally conceived it as a stage production. Truth be told, he wasn’t sure that there was a studio out there that would touch the awkward dark idea. But Dreamworks was still a young company with big ideas. If there was a studio out there that was going to take a flyer on a young talent with an oddball script, it was Dreamworks.
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Jacob’s Ladder (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 17th, 2010

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We begin in Vietnam, where the unit of which Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a member comes under attack. Jacob is bayonetted, and as he struggles with his wounds, the film flashes forward to his post-Vietnam life in New York City. He works for the post office, is divorced, is still grieving over the death of his youngest son (Macauley Culkin), and is living with his new girlfriend (Elizabeth Pena). He is also being tormented by visions of demonic figures. And then suddenly this life turns out to be a dream, and he’s at home with his wife and all of his kids are alive. Or is that a dream? And what really happened in Vietnam?
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Experiment, The (Blu-Ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on September 16th, 2010

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Most people are aware that I don’t care for romantic comedies but nothing gets under my skin more than a horrible prison movie. My attempts to forget the movie are usually successful until the next time a similar movie appears in my review pile. Maybe it is the cliché plot, the contrived and stereo-typed characters, or the male on male forced action. How would a movie fare where it simulates the jail experience in a behavioral experiment? I dare to find out.
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 15th, 2010

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“It is said some lives are linked across time. Connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages. Destiny.”

The Prince Of Persia is not some new phenomenon sweeping the country. The original video game goes back quite some time to the pre-high-definition consoles of the late 1980’s. Over the years the title has had some major staying power and has continued to flourish across several platforms and generations of graphics and game play. Today video games are more and more like movies themselves. Many of these games carry budgets as high as blockbuster effects-laden tent-pole films. It’s big business.
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Why Did I Get Married Too? (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 15th, 2010

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I did not see Tyler Perry’s moderately successful 2007 film, Why Did I Get Married. I never thought that would present much of a problem with his recent Why Did I Get Married, Too. I’ve seen plenty of Perry’s films and think that I have a pretty good grasp of where he’s coming from. Early this year I watched and reviewed I Can Do Bad All By Myself. It was a new direction for Perry and, while he did include his famous Madea character, the film wasn’t really about her usual antics. I guess I expected this film to follow in the footsteps of that rather impressive effort. Unfortunately, I may have misjudged my ability to follow this film without having seen the first.
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Sons of Anarchy: Season Two (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 7th, 2010

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“Ride into this world all alone. God takes your soul. You’re on your own.
The crow flies straight, a perfect line on the devil’s back until you die.
Gotta look this life in the eye”.

When these guys send a message, they don’t use Western Union.
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Stardust (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on September 7th, 2010

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”A philosopher once asked, ‘Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?’ Pointless, really…’Do the stars gaze back?’ Now that’s a question.”

They do more than gaze in Stardust, a quirky, enjoyable film that’s not the epic tale it’s made out to be. The film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel of the same name, Stardust is a tale about a young man from a small English village who gets caught up in a magical adventure in another realm.
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Black Label Society: The European Invasion – Doom Troopin’ Live (Blu-Ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on September 7th, 2010

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Black Label Society formed officially in 1998 and released their first album Sonic Brew in late October. At first, the record was only received in Japan but later they found an American label in late spring of the following year. They would go on to produce many albums, tour the world and basically generate rock n roll and mayhem wherever they went. Eagle Vision decided to bring concert footage to Blu-Ray from their European Tour in 2005. It is simply called Doom Troopin Live.
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Jane’s Addiction Live Voodoo (Blu-Ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on September 6th, 2010

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My taste in music is not exactly all over the place. I like rock, hard rock. Sure, I can listen to a country tune or two or dabble in some Mozart but if the bass is bumping and the guitarists are having seizures on the strings, I’m good to go. So when the owner of this site asked if I would do a few music blu-rays as a change of pace, I was worried and excited at the same time. Music in Blu-ray is an amazing experience but if I didn’t like the music, not so much. But I was still eager when I opened the first one: Jane’s Addiction: Live Voodoo.
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The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 1st, 2010

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The longest running show in prime time doesn’t feature cops, doctors, or lawyers. It’s hard to believe that The Simpsons have existed as long as the Fox network. While the series didn’t really begin until Fox’s second year, the characters were part of The Tracey Ullman Show, which did start the first year of Fox. Who could have guessed that an animated short from an otherwise horrible and doomed variety show would explode into such a phenomenon?
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The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 31st, 2010

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Vampires are hot right now, at least that’s what everyone keeps telling me. The truth is that everyone is absolutely wrong. Vampires are not hot right now. They’ve always been hot. Since at least since 1897 when Bram Stoker took the world by storm in one of the earliest examples of a horror novel. Of course, I’m talking about Dracula. Dracula, as a character, might have been based on the historical figure of Vlad the Impaler, but the vampire legend that Stoker perfected in Dracula is pure fiction. Still, it wasn’t quite Stoker’s novel that created the vampire craze, it merely lit the fuse.
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Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 30th, 2010

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It’s been said that all good things must come to an end. In television that could not be more true. In the world of entertainment good things end, often quickly without a chance to leave any kind of an impact. Maybe six years wasn’t exactly quick for Lost, but at least it can’t claim not to have left an impact. The show changed how we watch television, and it will be a long time before anyone forgets about it.
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Back-Up Plan, The (Blu-Ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on August 29th, 2010

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Most of the male reviewers in this industry loathe romantic comedies. It is the only thing in the industry that we conceive to be as easy to make as a poorly written horror movie. Insert female who is looking for love in all of the wrong places and give her an unique situation to find that special love. Insert hunky guy who is a bit quirky to sweep her off her feet. Love, love, love and they go off to get married and make babies. So I did what any man would do in this situation, I begged my better half to write the review.
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The Square (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 26th, 2010

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It’s almost impossible not to compare The Square with No Country For Old Men. The themes are very much the same. The talent behind this Australian movie even includes a couple of brothers, but their name doesn’t happen to be Cohen; however, one of these brothers is also named Joel. One of the original writers on the film is Joel Edgerton. The idea passed through a couple of other folks along the way to director Nash Edgerton who saw more potential in the film. So, a modest budget and a collection of relatively unknown actors combined to create a movie that does not easily fall into any one category
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$5 a Day (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 26th, 2010

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“Relationships don’t come cheap.”

I guess I’m pretty much like most film watchers in certain areas. When I saw that $5 A Day was rated PG-13 for sexual content and brief nudity, I did what most red-blooded American guys would do. I took a look at who was in the cast. This might work. I suspected we’d be treated to a little quick peek at Amanda Peet or Sharon Stone in a little birthday suit flash. OK, now I’ve got a little something to look forward to. Little did I know that the brief nudity part referred to
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Dorian Gray (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 25th, 2010

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“The truth is, I’ve done dreadful things. My life has been a monstrous corruption. And there will be a price to pay.”

The Picture Of Dorian Gray was actually Oscar Wilde’s only full-length novel. It was quite a controversial subject when it first arrived on the scene in 1890, but not because of the horror element. The book is often sexually explicit and contains more than a flirtation with homosexuality. The main themes have survived, but much of the work itself has been forgotten. We know the work almost exclusively from the classic film from 1945 where Hurd Hatfield played the title character
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The Diplomat (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 25th, 2010

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It was hard for me to find any real solid information about The Diplomat. At first I decided that it was because the film was obviously not a movie at all, but a British mini-series. The piece is broken up into two parts that you must play separately, much like a mini-series is often presented when released on home video. That was still not enough to research the title, because it hadn’t really been a mini-series at all either. Finally, a stroke of luck led me to the fact that The Diplomat hadn’t been its original name either.
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The Last Song

Posted in Disc Reviews by David Annandale on August 19th, 2010

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Miley Cyrus is displaced from New York to spend the summer by the sea in Georgia with estranged father Greg Kinnear. While younger brother Bobby Coleman thinks the set-up is just keen (especially former composer dad’s work restoring the stain glass windows of a burned church), Cyrus stomps around in full Resentful Teenage Girl mode, until two things make her begin to open up: the need to protect a nest of sea turtles, and the attentions of the impossibly hunky Liam Hemsworth. Since this is a Nicholas Sparks story, true love and happiness will have to run the gauntlet of class snobbery, Disturbing Revelations ™, and the inevitable Third Act Fatal Illness That Brings Out The Best In Everyone (also a registered trademark).
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Kalifornia (Blu-ray)

Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 18th, 2010

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“I remember once going on a school trip to the top of the Empire State Building. When I looked down at the crowds of people on the street, they looked like ants. I pulled out a penny and some of us started talking about what would happen if I dropped it from up there and it landed on somebody’s head. Of course, I never crossed that line and actually dropped the penny. I don’t think Early Grayce even knew there was a line to cross.”

Kalifornia was never made for a mass audience, at least that’s how it appears to have played out.
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