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All Deckard Out: A History of Blade Runner on Laserdisc

Josh Zyber — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:00:15 +0000

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner may not have set the theatrical box office on fire back in 1982, but the film found enough of a cult audience on home video to warrant multiple releases on the Laserdisc format between 1983 to 1993. Over the years, I’ve collected most of them. I don’t have much call to...

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‘All the Money in the World’ Review: Greed and Last Minute Plummer-fication

Philip Brown — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:00:52 +0000

‘All the Money in the World’ is a perfectly decent Hollywood thriller. It’s a little heavy-handed and often sinks under the weight of its ambition, but in the pantheon of half-thought-out late Ridley Scott pictures, it’ll hold up well enough. However, the film will now be enshrined into Hollywood history for its behind-the-scenes turmoil. Unfortunately,...

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‘Alien: Covenant’ Review: Prometheus, Now with More Aliens

Philip Brown — Tue, 16 May 2017 17:00:04 +0000

‘Prometheus’, Ridley Scott’s return to the ‘Alien’ franchise, was supposed to reignite excitement and deepen the series’ mythology. Instead, it was beautiful to look at but stumbled through failed grasps at profound themes and irritatingly stupid writing. The long-delayed sequel, ‘Alien: Covenant’, at least improves and expands on what ‘Prometheus’ hoped to accomplish, even though...

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‘Morgan’ Review: Ex MachiNOT

Philip Brown — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:00:14 +0000

The biggest problem with ‘Morgan’ is that it’s not ‘Ex Machina’, yet comes out so soon after Alex Garland’s brilliant robo-Frankenstein tale that it’s almost impossible not to draw comparisons. It’s still quite well made for a debut feature by a new director. (Granted, it helps when your dad is Ridley Scott and can get...

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‘The Martian’ Review: Houston, No Problem We Got This

Philip Brown — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:00:53 +0000

Not many Ridley Scott movies can be described with words like “light” or “fluffy,” but ‘The Martian’ comfortably fits those terms in the best possible way. Undoubtedly, screenwriter Drew Goddard (‘Cabin in the Woods’) and the source novel by Andy Weir helped, but it’s still a little surreal to see the 77-year-old knighted director helming...

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The Trailer Park: Mars Needs Damons

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:00:13 +0000

Some of the best known and respected actors are starring in roles that demand pretty big shoes this year. In the past, they’ve proven themselves adequately and, for the most part, to the satisfaction of the box office. Aside from one long-time favorite of many, however, the question remains whether they will satisfy moviegoers later...

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‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ Review: An Unexpected ‘Noah’ Sequel

Philip Brown — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:00:32 +0000

The strangest major studio release last spring was Darren Aronofsky’s wacky ‘Noah’. In a perverse way, it makes sense that 2014 should wrap up with another ambiguous Old Testament blockbuster. Ridley Scott’s twist on the Ten Commandments serves up a Moses with questionable sanity and harshly violent CinemaScope spectacle in a manner that the old...

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The Trailer Park: Gods Gone Wild

Luke Hickman — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:00:19 +0000

When December comes around, the studios start rolling out their big awards hopefuls for the season. Whether any of these movies actually win Oscars or not, they might be worth watching. ‘Wild’ (Dec. 5) Reese Witherspoon is shooting for another Best Actress trophy with a traveling-to-find-one’s-self movie. In ‘Wild’, she plays a woman whose life...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst Buddy-Cop Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:00:29 +0000

They’re partners. They’re friends (sometimes). They bust the criminals while busting each other’s balls. The buddy-cop formula is a reliable staple of Hollywood’s output. This week, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube give it a shot in ‘Ride Along’. Something tells me that this one isn’t destined to be a classic. Nevertheless, it has inspired today’s...

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Now Playing: Mixed ‘Counsel’

Luke Hickman — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:00:59 +0000

After blindly walking into ‘The Counselor’ with absolutely no knowledge of the story, aware only that it was written as Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay, I had to chew on it a long while before making up my mind. After several hours and much discussion with fellow critic friends, I’ve come to the...

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The Trailer Park: The Lone Ronin Counselor

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:00:40 +0000

As we prepare for the cold, chilly winds of autumn, the Hollywood studios are releasing their fall lineup of trailers, hoping to warm the hearts of moviegoers, or at least generate some anticipation. Of the three previews gathered today, only one piques my interest enough to watch on the big screen. ‘The Counselor’ Despite having...

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Blu-ray Highlights for January 29th, 2013 – Come Out to the Coast, We’ll Get Together, Have a Few Laughs…

Josh Zyber — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:00:47 +0000

As we close out the month of January, Bruce Willis reminds us how often he dies hard, Christopher Walken kidnaps the wrong dog, Adam Sandler gets animated, and activity of a paranormal nature occurs yet again. Yippee Ki-Yay To tie-in with the upcoming fifth entry, Fox offers a 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Collection of the first...

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