Blu-ray Highlights for 10/18/11 – Come Out, Come Out, Where
This week sees the Blu-ray release of one of the year’s billion-dollar blockbuster hits. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. I’m more interested in the catalog titles. What grabs your attention?
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Blu-ray Highlights for 10/11/11 – In Brightest Day, In Blackest N...
This week brings us quite an eclectic mix of new Blu-ray releases. Among them, we get a failed blockbuster, a sleeper hit comedy, the latest lazy mess from Adam Sandler’s production company, and an art film that will likely ...
Blu-ray Highlights for 10/4/11 – Can You Feel the Love Toni
I would seem that, when I wrote last week’s Blu-ray update, I missed kind of a big title that was released on Friday. You know, the one involving giant robots beating the crap out of each other. Whoops. Allow me to consolida...
Weekend Box Office: ‘Lion’ Still Roaring
How embarrassing is it for new releases that ‘The Lion King’ is #1 again? For the second week in a row, the 3D re-release of a 17-year-old movie has dominated the box office. Only falling 26.6% in attendance, ‘Th...
Weekend Movies: An Oscar Contender vs. Three Turds
January and September are two of the weakest months of the year for quality movies, but September has something that January doesn’t: – at least one pre-awards season contender. Opening this week is 2011’s September co...
Weekend Box Office: ‘The Lion King’ Roars Again
I sure didn’t foresee the weekend being dominated by a 3D re-release of a 17-year-old animated movie – especially one whose new 3d conversion is receiving a Diamond Edition Blu-ray release in just two weeks.
Weekend Movies: Two Arty Thrillers Go Against a Chick Flick and a
I love it when general audiences walk into a widely-released indie-style movie expecting a standard genre flick and walk out scratching their heads, not exactly sure what they just watched nor how they feel about it. If you don...
Blu-ray Highlights for 9/13/11 – How Broke Are You Going to
Grab something and hold on tight! This week brings us a virtual onslaught of new Blu-ray releases, including two cinematic titans battling it out to pry some of those hard-earned dollars from your wallets. I wish I could say that ...
Videogame Releases: Week of September 4th, 2011
Now this is more like it. Three sweet looking games in one week? Hell yeah. PlayStation owners get their hands on a must-have, and every high-def system gets a pair of absolutely stellar-looking titles. It almost makes up for the ...
Weekend Box Office: No Surprise, ‘The Help’ Wins Agai
For the third weekend in a row (and its fourth weekend in theaters), ‘The Help‘ has dominated other openers to hold the #1 spot at the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, the last film to reign at #1 for three co...
Blu-ray Highlights for 9/6/11: X-tra, X-tra, Read All About It!
Brace yourselves, folks. September is going to be an expensive month for Blu-ray fans. While the barrage of huge, long-awaited titles won’t hit its peak until next week, this week already brings us several worth consideratio...
Weekend Movies: Another Bunch of (Mostly) Not-Screened-For-Press
Whenever movies aren’t screened widely for the press, that’s usually a bad sign. I cannot think of a single not-screened-for-press film that turned out to be a winner (with the possible exception of some small indie fl...