Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 24th, 2021
” Okay, listen up! I want 50 of the best men! I want guns! I want wheels, freaking X-wing fighters — I don’t care! The Millennium Falcon, Chewbacca if you can get ahold of him. Money’s no object. Go.” The year 2020 and nearly half of 2021 make up a time in our lives we’d […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 16th, 2021
“Space…The Final Frontier. These are the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!” From the moment of the first UHD releases, I have had a wish list of films I wanted […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 2nd, 2021
The first thing you should know about The Walking Dead franchise is that it’s unlike any television series you have ever seen before. The images here are intense, and the crew has been given a blank check to create this vision without the burden of censors looking over their shoulders. There are plenty of blood-and-gore […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 1st, 2021
What James Wan did with The Conjuring (2013) was something I don’t think anyone expected, he didn’t just deliver a haunted house film that’s genuinely scary as well as being a technical achievement, but also he kicked off a successful franchise that’s now seven films deep with no signs of stopping. I’ll admit when it […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Jeremy Butler on August 27th, 2021
“Boring is still always best.” To preface this review, I feel I should tell you just how big a fan I am of the original film (The Hitman’s Bodyguard). It’s a movie that I have watched more times than I can count. There is something about that film for me that just works. Maybe it […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on July 20th, 2021
In 1982 when production was getting started on 48 Hrs, Walter Hill had plenty pf success with The Warriors, The Long Riders, and Southern Comfort, and many would think he was taking a bit of a risk by casting Eddie Murphy as the second lead of his film. Sure, Murphy would go on to be […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on July 9th, 2021
“Before I was an Avenger, I made mistakes … and a lot of enemies.” To say that Scarlett Johansson’s solo Black Widow film is overdue is one of the understatements of the decade. Fans of the MCU have been calling for the character to have a film of her own; all the while characters like […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on June 18th, 2021
Just in time for the first days of shooting on the next and final Indiana Jones film, Paramount cashes in on the renewed interest with the long-awaited, at least from this reviewer, release of the first four films in the Indiana Jones franchise on UHD Blu-ray in full ultra high definition complete with HDR and […]
Posted in The Reel World by Jeremy Butler on June 16th, 2021
“Boring is still always best.” To preface this review, I feel I should tell you just how big a fan I am of the original film (The Hitman’s Bodyguard). It’s a movie that I have watched more times than I can count. There is something about that film for me that just works. Maybe it […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on June 11th, 2021
Are you feeling a little déjà vu when you turn on a television or live stream these days? While Tom Selleck is playing a family patriarch on Blue Bloods, Jay Hernandez is in Hawaii driving a bright red Ferrari in a new version of Magnum P.I. Hawaii 5-O was one of the most popular shows […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on June 5th, 2021
What James Wan did with The Conjuring (2013) was something I don’t think anyone expected. He not just delivered a haunted house film that’s genuinely scary as well as being a technical achievement, but also he kicked off a successful franchise that’s now seven films deep with no signs of stopping. I’ll admit when it […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on June 1st, 2021
“I can see it now… Supernatural: The End. And the cover is just a grave stone that says ‘Winchester’. Fans are gonna love it. Welcome to the end” The brothers made an emotional announcement during the airing of the previous season that the 15th year would be the final season of the show. It’s hard […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on May 25th, 2021
I grew up on the Peanuts creations of Charles M. Schulz. Most of us have, in some way or another. His newspaper comic strip is one of the longest running and most successful strips of all time. The work has been translated into every language currently spoken on the planet. The images of Charlie Brown, […]
Posted in Holiday Gift Guides by Gino Sassani on November 27th, 2020
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 […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on August 31st, 2020
“I was wonderin’ if you were going to come to say goodbye.” The world said goodbye to Gunsmoke in 1975 after 635 episodes and 20 seasons. But it wasn’t to be quite forever. While most of the cast would never again don the characters that made up the show’s iconic ensemble, James Arness would show […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on February 18th, 2020
This is the film that literally started a trend. Within a decade, submarine films would make a huge comeback in the big-budget film industry. Titles like Crimson Tide, U-571, and K-19: The Widowmaker all took a little from Red October. Maybe the Cold War is over, but our fascination with that modern version of cowboys […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on November 22nd, 2019
I have to be honest; when I got this title and saw that Jim Gaffigan was starring, I didn’t know what to expect, but I went into this film with some low expectations. I’m a fan of Gaffigan, and I own a few of his stand-up albums, but seeing him headlining a thriller, well, it […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 7th, 2019
“This is where change begins.” We’re a visual people, so most of you will recognize Taylor Sheridan from his role as a deputy chief of police in Sons of Anarchy when the controlled puppet regime had finally left the scene. It’s not a remarkable role, and it’s not a complete surprise that Sheridan found his […]
Posted in No Huddle by Jeremy Butler on November 7th, 2019
Wonder what happened to Laura Marano from Austin and Aly? Well, she is following in the footsteps of fellow Disney Channel actresses, Hilary Duff and Selena Gomez, by starring in the latest incarnation of A Cinderella Story, and this time it’s Christmas-themed. On the one hand, I am wondering how many different ways this premise […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 15th, 2019
“You know, kids lose their toys every day. Sometimes they get put in the wrong box, and that box gets taken away.” In 1995 Pixar didn’t just put themselves on the computer animated feature film map. They completely created a new map. Yes, there were works before Toy Story, but that was the film that […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 2nd, 2019
“I mean who knows what kind of creatures are out there wreaking havoc on history?” DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has become somewhat the odd man out when it comes to the DC Television Universe, or the Arrowverse, as it is most commonly known. Last season it was not part of the annual crossover, and it […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 11th, 2019
“I think it’s time I told you about Aladdin, the princess, and the lamp.” There is very little new coming out of the Walt Disney Studios in recent years. For the last few years and into the near conceivable future, there has been a concerted effort by the Mouse House to remake as live-action films […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 29th, 2019
“My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. To the outside world, I’m an ordinary forensic scientist. But secretly, with the help of my friends at S.T.A.R. Labs, I fight crime and find other meta-humans like me. But when my daughter came back from the future to help, she changed the […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on June 2nd, 2019
“My name is Elton Hercules John.” When I was a kid he was Captain Fantastic, and I spent a lot of time and money on Elton John records since the early 1970’s. I was a 12-year old kid when Goodbye Yellow Brick Road came out, and I’ve been a pretty huge fan ever since. I’m […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on May 24th, 2019
“I think it’s time I told you about Aladdin, the princess, and the lamp.” There is very little new coming out of the Walt Disney Studios in recent years. For the last few years and into the near conceivable future, there has been a concerted effort by The Mouse House to remake as live-action films […]
