Hollywood has enjoyed a long and storied lineage of animals in lead roles. Old Yeller, Lassie, Babe, and even Remmy the Rat from last year’s Ratatouille effortlessly capture the hearts of audiences everywhere with their often human-like personas, showing a range of emotion and stirring the soul through the good times and the bad. DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda,...
Archive for November, 2008
DVD Review: Kung Fu Panda / Secrets of the Furious Five
Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Panda
Hollywood has enjoyed a long and storied lineage of animals in lead roles. Old Yeller, Lassie, Babe, and even Remmy the Rat from last year’s Ratatouille effortlessly capture the hearts of audiences everywhere with their often human-like persona’s, showing a range of emotion and stirring the soul through the good times and the bad. DreamWorks’ Kung...
Hollywood has enjoyed a long and storied lineage of animals in lead roles. Old Yeller, Lassie, Babe, and even Remmy the Rat from last year’s Ratatouille effortlessly capture the hearts of audiences everywhere with their often human-like persona’s, showing a range of emotion and stirring the soul through the good times and the bad. DreamWorks’ Kung...
Black Friday Deals on Hundreds of Blu-ray and DVDs
First, 223 low priced Blu-ray titles including Sleeping Beauty, 300 and Band of Brothers will be on sale from now until December 2nd.
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Amazon.com will also have “Early Bird Deals” on Friday. They write: We’ll be offering great Black Friday deals all week long, but for those of you who can’t stand to miss the Black Friday morning madness, we have something special for you. Come back on Friday morning to cash in on these insane deals. This offer is only valid 2 a.m. to 11 a.m. (Pacific time) on Friday, November 28th, while quantities last. Rules and restrictions apply.
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First, 223 low priced Blu-ray titles including Sleeping Beauty, 300 and Band of Brothers will be on sale from now until December 2nd.
Shop Blu-ray sale »
Amazon.com will also have “Early Bird Deals” on Friday. They write: We’ll be offering great Black Friday deals all week long, but for those of you who can’t stand to miss the Black Friday morning madness, we have something special for you. Come back on Friday morning to cash in on these insane deals. This offer is only valid 2 a.m. to 11 a.m. (Pacific time) on Friday, November 28th, while quantities last. Rules and restrictions apply.
Go...
Blu-ray Review: Black Christmas – Special Edition
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage sex comedy’s and sweet Christmas classics, Clark actually got his start in the movie business making horror films. His first film...
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage sex comedy’s and sweet Christmas classics, Clark actually got his start in the movie business making horror films. His first film...
DVD Review: High Noon – 2-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by most film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate to him. As fellow film legend Clint Eastwood said of Cooper in the 1991 documentary, Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend, “[we] saw in his face the face of all America.”
Perhaps...
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by most film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate to him. As fellow film legend Clint Eastwood said of Cooper in the 1991 documentary, Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend, “[we] saw in his face the face of all America.”
Perhaps...
Blu-ray Review: Fred Claus
Every year, Hollywood cranks out two or three Christmas movies in hopes of making a classic that will stand the test of time. You know what I mean; become a move like It’s a Wonderful Life or the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street starring Natalie Wood–Films that become so identified with the Christmas season, that many people make viewing one of these films part of their holiday...
Every year, Hollywood cranks out two or three Christmas movies in hopes of making a classic that will stand the test of time. You know what I mean; become a move like It’s a Wonderful Life or the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street starring Natalie Wood–Films that become so identified with the Christmas season, that many people make viewing one of these films part of their holiday...
DVD Review: Noëlle
With the holiday season fast approaching, lots of Christmas specials and Christmas themed movies are showing up at my door. Noëlle is a film that received a limited theatrical release last year, and carries the Dove Family-approved seal. David Wall–who looks exactly like a cross between Robert Redford and Owen Wilson–writes, directs, and stars in this heartwarming tale of a crotchety (I...
With the holiday season fast approaching, lots of Christmas specials and Christmas themed movies are showing up at my door. Noëlle is a film that received a limited theatrical release last year, and carries the Dove Family-approved seal. David Wall–who looks exactly like a cross between Robert Redford and Owen Wilson–writes, directs, and stars in this heartwarming tale of a crotchety (I...
DVD Review: Futurama – Bender’s Game
Futurama was an animated sitcom created by The Simpsons Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. The series followed the adventures of a former New York pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, after he was cryogenically frozen seconds before the start of the year 2000, and thawed out on New Year’s Eve 2999. The series got progressively better during...
Futurama was an animated sitcom created by The Simpsons Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. The series followed the adventures of a former New York pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, after he was cryogenically frozen seconds before the start of the year 2000, and thawed out on New Year’s Eve 2999. The series got progressively better during...
Blu-ray Review: Standard Operating Procedure
Documentaries have long been overlooked by much of the movie going public. I’m not really sure why, but I’ve always felt most people go to the movies to escape reality, and documentaries tend to bring us right back into the real world we’re trying so hard to escape with a visit to our local Cineplex. Hopefully, as the popularity of home theaters continues to grow, movie fans will begin to...
Documentaries have long been overlooked by much of the movie going public. I’m not really sure why, but I’ve always felt most people go to the movies to escape reality, and documentaries tend to bring us right back into the real world we’re trying so hard to escape with a visit to our local Cineplex. Hopefully, as the popularity of home theaters continues to grow, movie fans will begin to...
DVD Review: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Note: This double-sided DVD includes the movie in three formats: a full-screen version in 2-D, a widescreen version in 2-D, and a widescreen version in 3-D. You’ll find my comments about each of the formats in the Video section below.
Journey to the Center of the Earth seems to be Hollywood’s go to novel when their running out of ideas for movies. The Jules Verne classic...
Note: This double-sided DVD includes the movie in three formats: a full-screen version in 2-D, a widescreen version in 2-D, and a widescreen version in 3-D. You’ll find my comments about each of the formats in the Video section below.
Journey to the Center of the Earth seems to be Hollywood’s go to novel when their running out of ideas for movies. The Jules Verne classic...
