Posted in Tuesday Round Up by J C on August 16th, 2016
The start of the new Fall TV season is still a little more than a month away. That also means it’s about the time of year that UpcomingDiscs HQ gets flooded with titles from the previous small-screen season so everyone can play catch-up before new episodes begin to air. Warner Bros. sinks its teeth into The […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on March 17th, 2016
“When I was small, I only knew small things. But now I’m five, I know everything!” Room opens on the day that Jack, the movie’s relentlessly curious young protagonist, turns five. Jack is our entry point and guide through this story, but there’s at least one important thing he doesn’t know. In Room, we see […]
Posted in Holiday Gift Guides by Gino Sassani on November 27th, 2015
I think I see your problem. You have this list. It’s a list of people you need/want to buy a Christmas gift for. The trouble is that they’re into home theatre, and you don’t know Star Trek from Star Wars. You couldn’t tell a Wolf Man from a Wolverine. And you always thought that Paranormal Activity was something too […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on September 21st, 2015
“Have courage and be kind.” Those words — repeated many times in this newest version of Cinderella — serve as both the title character’s mantra and the film’s unofficial tagline. The message is elegant in its simplicity in a way that mirrors this refreshingly old-fashioned adaptation, which resists the prevailing urge to modernize and/or revise […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 21st, 2015
“‘Tis the season for Demon Dean.” It’s almost like some twisted holiday season. Each season finds the Winchester Brothers in some way divided following an apocalyptic event. The world might be saved once again, but Either Dean or Sam is in Hell or Purgatory. One might be living in an alternate reality or just in […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 1st, 2015
“Once upon a time, there was a majestic king, who lived with his noble brother in a colorful kingdom where music and art were celebrated. The king did not foresee having a child, but he lived in an enchanted land where all things were possible. In time, he was blessed with a beautiful baby daughter […]
Posted in Tuesday Round Up by J C on August 18th, 2015
Busy times here at UpcomingDiscs. We’ve got our hands full with a grand total of 21(!) titles that release today — and who knows how many more flying in during the week — so keep checking our site for a barn full of reviews over the next week or so. But enough jibber jabber: let’s […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Jeremy Butler on July 15th, 2015
I remember seeing a trailer for this movie a few months back and feeling underwhelmed. It was one of those experiences where you see a trailer and feel like through that contact alone that you can determine the entire course of the movie. Fortunately, I have no trouble admitting when I am wrong, and that […]
Posted in No Huddle by Dan Holland on July 15th, 2015
I’m such a big fan of the late Charles Bronson. Though I have not seen every film on his résumé, I have seen enough to know that if you give that man a gun, you have a movie. From his leading roles in Once Upon a Time in the West and the Death Wish franchise, […]
Posted in No Huddle by J C on July 9th, 2015
There’s a moment about halfway through Slow West where the two main characters partake in some absinthe. What follows is a disquietingly vivid dream and our two “heroes” essentially wobbling around until sobering up the next morning.The sequence is actually a pretty perfect encapsulation of what it feels like to watch Slow West, a woozy […]
Posted in The Reel World by J C on March 14th, 2015
“Have courage and be kind.” Those words — repeated many times in this newest version of Cinderella — serve as both the title character’s mantra and the film’s unofficial tagline. The message is elegant in its simplicity in a way that mirrors this refreshingly old-fashioned adaptation, which resists the prevailing urge to modernize and/or revise […]
Posted in The Reel World by J C on December 25th, 2014
It took a while for Hollywood to finally venture Into the Woods. On one hand, the delay isn’t surprising given that the popularity of live-action musicals at the box office has ebbed and flowed many times since Woods made its Broadway debut in 1987. Then again, the story’s free-wheeling mash-up of Grimms’ fairy tale characters […]
Posted in Holiday Gift Guides by Gino Sassani on December 19th, 2014
ABC and Disney have some rather entertaining television sets for that hard-to-please television addict on your shopping list. In recent years more and more of us engage in something called binge-watching. With either a DVR or the season sets releases, we watch an entire season of a show in a matter of a few days. […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on December 9th, 2014
“I wish…” There’s no shortage of wishing (not to mention pining, longing, yearning, etc.) in some of our most beloved fairy tales. Into the Woods — the Tony-winning Broadway musical created by Stephen Sondheim and frequent collaborator James Lapine — illustrates what happens when certain characters get their storybook ending. Since there’s a big, shiny […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on June 25th, 2014
When the first Wolf Creek was released it was one of those films that had a lot of hype around it, and when I got around to watching it, I dug it. It’s one of those films where the more I’ve watched it the more I’ve gotten to appreciate it, not just for its gore, […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on March 19th, 2014
“Beautiful. Powerful. Dangerous. Cold. Ice has a magic that can’t be controlled.” Like the very best that Disney has offered over the decades, Frozen has its roots in a very old classic fairy tale. Walt himself was interested in doing the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ice Queen immediately following Snow White And The Seven […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on March 3rd, 2014
“His name is Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald.” Before November 22, 1963, that name was an obscure one, known only to a few people in the intelligence community who had him under surveillance for his communist leanings. But by a little after noon on that date in Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald was suddenly one of the […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 7th, 2013
“Once upon a time in New York City…” Walt Disney might well have been the storyteller of more than one generation of kids. Is it any wonder that when we think of such characters as Winnie The Pooh or Peter Pan our minds conjure the images wrought by Disney animators and not necessarily the classic […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Jonathan Foster on April 16th, 2013
“When I get a crush, it’s really bad.” Everyone has experienced it before: you meet that special someone, and a crush sidelines you. They fill your head when you’re not with them. When they’re near, you act like an idiot. The downside comes when your crush is not reciprocated; or worse, they don’t even know […]
Posted in Podcasts by Gino Sassani on December 4th, 2012
We recently reviewed a pretty good direct-to-video film with Bruce Willis called Fire With Fire. Jeremy Butler provided the review. The two of us had the great honor to chat with the director David Barrett. Barrett has directed some of the best television shows running. He’s worked on hits like Blue Bloods, Castle, The Mentalist […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on November 29th, 2012
Like many others I love a good gangster film. Not every film has to be epic like Once Upon a Time in America or The Godfather; the simple ones are just as good like Snatch and Sexy Beast. In fact there are so many good gangster films out there I could almost argue is there […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on November 28th, 2012
“In 1920 they passed the prohibition act making the sale of alcohol illegal. Well… at least it was supposed to be.” I know what you’re thinking, and I was also incredibly disappointed to learn this film was not a biopic of Xena: Warrior Princess actress Lucy Lawless. (This hypothetical film would obviously star the ageless […]
Posted in The Reel World by J C on August 29th, 2012
I know what you’re thinking, and I was also incredibly disappointed to learn this film was not a biopic of Xena: Warrior Princess actress Lucy Lawless. (This hypothetical film would obviously star the ageless Kiwi because the actress still looks incredible.) Fortunately, Lawless makes up for its startling lack of Lawless by being one of […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on August 20th, 2012
“When I was a child, my father was framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Before he died, he left a road map for revenge that led me to the people who destroyed our lives.” Daytime sudsers may be going the way of the dodo and video stores, but the nighttime soap is alive and […]
Posted in The Reel World by M. W. Phillips on June 1st, 2012
“First, I will take your life, my lord, then I will take your throne.” Is it wrong for me to watch Snow White and the Huntsman and root for the evil queen? How about disagreeing with the magic mirror on the wall about Snow White (Kristen Stewart) being the fairest of them all, when Queen […]
