Tag Archives: Blu-ray

In Hollywood, conventional wisdom suggests that it doesn't matter what you do with the first two-thirds of a story as long as you have a strong ending. While the commercial success of any major film series demands that the opposite be true, front-loading a franchise with its best writing, acting …

Despite being set largely in Japan, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift represents everything that much of the world despises about America; its pop culture and morality. The film, like its two predecessors, embraces materialism, loose values and living for today. For the young characters of Tokyo Drift, love …

Films based on comic books don't have the best rep in the world. Even in the years of critical and commercially successful comic films like the Spider-Man and X-Men films, there are still films like Catwoman and Elektra. It's a crapshoot and you never know what you're going to get. …

The Wachowski Brothers (Writers/Directors of The Matrix trilogy) must be sleeping soundly this evening. Their movie will open huge, allow them a blank check on all future projects, and cement their membership into the modern class of effects-savvy directors such as Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Michael Bay, and Roland Emmerich. …

Who am I? You sure you really want to know? If anybody told you I was just a writer who got lucky enough to get paid to see movies, they'd be wrong. It is my destiny, it is my curse, to review Spider-Man.Why is it a curse, you ask? Simple …

Lewis Carroll, author of Alice¿s Adventures in Wonderland, once said: ¿Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.¿ Paul W.S. Anderson, writer/director of Resident Evil, unfortunately takes care of the sounds and drives the audience¿s senses into submission. From its opening, Resident Evil is a …

Once upon a time… Such is how all-traditional fairy tales begin. But this, my friends, is far from a traditional fairy tale. Hell, even the adverts exclaim this is "the greatest tale never told," so you know that it's not gonna conform to all the rules, regulations, and accepted fairy …

Right up there with tree, presents, eggnog, and fruitcake stands It's a Wonderful Life, one of the all-time classic movies, and probably the movie most identified with the Christmas holiday, above even Lethal Weapon. Frank Capra's holiday heartwarmer has just been released on DVD– I spotted it at the store …