Blu-ray Review: Dexter: The First Season
Dexter has finally come to Blu-ray Disc and now is the perfect time. Showtime has aired three cable-length seasons of this razor-sharp yet frighteningly inviting series about Dexter Morgan, Miami PD forensic blood-spatter specialist by day and bloodletting vigilante by night, and they’ve finally teased us with DVD releases long enough and have finally put out the story arc that started it all in sharper-than-ever 1080p high definition Blu-ray with 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio.
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Blu-ray Review: Ghost Town
Ricky Gervais from the original UK version of The Office finally settled down and stopped being annoying long enough to make a movie where he doesn’t act like a complete twat (to use Brit vernacular). While his character in Ghost Town, Dr. Bertram Pincus, DDS, is like his Office character David Brent in that he’s someone who starts out as someone you would never want to be around, unlike Brent, Pincus doesn’t have to hit bottom before he acts like a human.
Blu-ray Review: Event Horizon
The classic Sci-Fi Horror film Event Horizon is now available on Blu-ray! This film features Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Sam Neil (Jurassic Park) along with Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13) and Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck).
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Blu-ray Review: The Truman Show
“In case I don’t see you: Good afternoon, good evening and good night!”
Sometimes we often wonder if we are being watched. Maybe we just exist for someone’s amusement. Well Truman Burbank sure knows how that feels too, but the truth is he actually is being watched! Since Truman was born his life has been televised and broadcasted all over the world. But what happens when he begins to realize that people are acting strangely around him? You can find out now because the hit 90’s film The Truman Show is now available to own on Blu-ray!
Blu-ray Review: Eagle Eye
The world is a much stranger place than we give it credit for. We each live in our own personal bubble and sometimes don’t realize that things are out of our control. We place a lot of value on technology that makes our lives easier. It is easy to take that technology for granted. What happens when that technology is placed in the wrong hands? Welcome to Eagle Eye, the techno-thriller film from Director DJ Caruso. This new action film is now available on Blu-ray and DVD!
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Blu-ray Review: Serenity
Etta Courum Nas Mehkh!*
Good, now that you’ve calmed down, it’s time to talk about Serenity. Once upon a time there was a little show called Firefly. It was conceived, written and directed by Joss Whedon, who you may remember had a similar relationship with another little multi-media franchise that included Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Angel spinoff. In the Fall of 2002, Joss brought one of the best shows ever written back to the same network that he had brought so much awesomeness to with the Buffy-verse. To show their appreciation, FOX executives in charge of television scheduling that year** did everything in their power to bury, bugger, and bomb this glorious show that was the best of all things Sci-Fi, Western, Action, and Comedy, and was simultaneously all heart.
Blu-ray Review: The X-Files: I Want to Believe
After five years since the television series concluded, The X-Files finally returns with their second cinematic adventure, The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Like many other reviewers I’ve read since the cinematic debut of this film, I wasn’t initially particularly thrilled with the story, but I was very much thrilled to see Mulder and Scully back together again after all these years. This film doesn’t completely fill in the blank since they left the FBI, but it gives you a pretty strong idea as to what’s been going on the whole time.
Blu-ray Review: Tommy Boy Holy Schnike Edition
I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bulls ass, but I‘d rather take the butchers word for it.
Blu-ray Review: Death Race
Congratulations on joining the Death Race, where Terminal convicts get a chance to race for their very lives! If you can win (and survive) 5 races then you win your freedom. Don’t worry, you won’t be driving a regular race-car. You get to drive totally tricked out cars complete with bullet-proof windows, machine guns, napalm, spikes, and more! Oh and if you decide to compete in the Death Race you get your very own extremely hot navigator from a Women’s Prison! She will help you make your way through the course and avoid the other racers. Good luck!
Now you too can join in the excitement that is Death Race because it is available on Blu-ray and DVD! This movie was brought to you from the team of Director Paul W.S. Anderson and Producer Jeremy Bolt that made the 90’s thriller Event Horizon.
Blu-ray Review: Supertroopers
Dear Fox,
I hope you are doing well. I am fine. I wanted to write to say thank you for releasing Supertroopers, one of my favorite comedies, on Blu-ray. It is really great. That was very nice of you. Tell everyone I said hi.
Love,
Matt
Blu-ray Review: LOST The Complete Fourth Season
LOST The Complete Fourth Season is out on DVD and Blu-ray and if you’ve been following the show since the first season, this past season was the one where the show’s basic formula was turned on its side and recreated by way of flash forwards. Granted we really saw our first flash forward in the cliffhanger of season three but that was really our intro of what to expect with season four.
Blu-ray Review: The Dark Knight
“Best. Batman. Movie. Ever.”
The Dark Knight is a record destroying movie. Not only has it killed at the box office and has either been nominated or won awards, it has also smashed the Blu-ray release record. Why has this movie become such a success? Because it’s EPIC. Truly epic. This movie isn’t just about Batman, it is really about the world that he exists in and the influence he has on that world. We get to care more about the characters on a level that we never have seen before. Christian Bale returns as Bruce Wayne / Batman in Christopher Nolan’s second Batman epic: The Dark Knight which is now available for you to own on Blu-ray!
Blu-ray Review: X-Files: Fight The Future
The X-Files TV show ran nine seasons from 1993 to 2002. Season five of Fox’s Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series The X-Files ended with its highest viewership ever, the X-Files division of the FBI within the show had just been shut down, and fans were eager to finally see the X-Files movie, which we learned was shot in during the break between seasons 4 and 5, but picked up right where season 5 left off: the X-Files were no more, but Mulder and Scully were still FBI Agents.
Blu-ray Review: Bam Margera Presents: Where the #$&% is Santa?
As Christmas is upon us and many are feeling some negative aspects of the economy. Have you been to the mall and noticed the population of Santa’s village is a little lean this year. I don’t mean to say that they’ve lost weight individually, but that there are fewer elves, and… Hey, where’s the man himself?
Blu-ray & DVD Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Maybe it was a San Diego City Schools thing, but ComicsOnline Editor-in-Chief Kevin Gaussoin reports that years earlier, he had nearly the same experience in school.