Blu-ray Review: The Wrestler
As perfect as Mickey Rourke was as Marv in Sin City, his portrayal of Robin "Randy 'The Ram' Robinson" Ramzinski was just as ideal, yet this time placed in a world so real you can feel every blow that lands on Randy's steroid-addled achingly too-old-for-this-$#!% body.
DVD Review: Darker Than Black
Darker Than Black Volume 4 Ten years ago, a new landscape descended on Tokyo, named "Hells Gate", the stars in the heavens changed and were replaced by stars that are connected to humans. These Humans are known as contractors, and have supernatural abilities, such as directing electricity, freezing water or stopping time altogether. They tend to use these new abilities in doing their job as an assassin. When they use these powers they are required to make penance or complete a remuneration. If they do not make this payment they will suffer greatly. Some must only do things like, smoke a cigarette (which he hates), others grow younger (she likes being older). It is different for each one.
DVD Review: Ron White: Behavioral Problems
“Tater Salad" rides again. Away from his Blue-Collar Comedy buddies and making waves on his own. Now available on DVD!
Everyone's favorite scotch-swilling, unapologetically crass Texan is back on the stage, solo, with enough quips, anecdotes and observations to appease the closet curmudgeon in us all.
Highlights:
– Ron's anecdotes cover a wide range of topics, from national defense, to paper manufacturing plants, to marijuana. The are delivered with Ron's signature aplomb and each is quite funny in turn.
Anime DVD Review: Baccano! Volume 3
Explosions, pretty ladies, speakeasies, and the fresh smell of blood, what an immortal gangster dreams of! Oh, did I forget the knife in your back? There’s a couple of those, too. That’s what you’ll find in the world of Baccano!
Blu-ray Review: X-Men Trilogy
With the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine film hitting theaters, now is your chance to catch up on the exploits of your favorite heroes because the X-Men Trilogy is now available on Blu-ray! This new 9-disc release includes the three films as several discs of special features and a digital copy of each of the films for your computer or iPod enjoyment.
DVD Review: Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1 Volume 2
They're tiny, they're toony. They're all a little looney. Now this cartoony is invading DVD! Season 1, Volume 2 of Tiny Toon Adventures is now available at a store near you.
Babs and Buster Bunny (no relation), Plucky Duck, Hampton Pig, Elmyra, Dizzy Devil, Montana Max and the rest of the gang continue their ongoing training at Acme Looniversity. The next generation of Toons get trained by the best as Bugs, Daffey and the rest of the original Looney Toones return!
Episodes
This 4-disc set includes the remaining 32 episodes from Season 1. Highlights include:
"Animaniacs"- The toons have to produce films for an animation film festival.
"Career Oppor-Toonities"- Buster and Babs have to get part time jobs.
Blu-ray Review: Sin City Recut – Extended – Unrated
"She smells like angels ought to smell." -Marv
2005 was a crazy year for me. I mean, I didn't wake up next to any dead strippers like Marv from Sin City, but life got in the way of me seeing Sin City in the cinema. While I had some of the original Dark Horse Presents issues chronicling Sin City's initial appearances, and had bought a couple of the trade paperbacks, it wasn't until Christmas of 2005 that I was able to see the film translation on DVD. Needless to say I was blown away at this most true comic book movie of all time. It's stark black and whites broken only occasionally by accent colors or the full color seen in Kadie's bar showed what a comic noir film could be.
DVD Review: Notorious 3-Disc Collector’s Edition
Notorious is an excellent companion piece to the albums of the late Chistopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. That is to say, this movie is great for fans of him and his music, but not so much for the average viewer. The entire movie plays out like a dramatization from The Notorious B.I.G.’s episode of VH1’s Behind the Music, often with similar acting.
DVD Review: The Reader
"It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter what I think. The dead are still dead." – Hanna Schmitz
When The Reader hit the box offices in 2008 I asked a friend what it was about, to which she responded, "Well, it's a love story." While the film does start out with an affair, passionate, forbidden, erotic, and tragically doomed, all the makings of an epic love story, anyone who can sum this film up as being just a love story wasn't really paying attention.
Chronologically, the story begins in a very well-created post WWII Era Germany, when 15 year old Michael Berg (David Ross) meets 35 year old Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet). Their affair lasts three months during which time Michael discovers that Hanna greatly enjoys being read to. Then as suddenly as it began, it ends, when Hanna disappears with no warning on Michael's 16th birthday.
