Blu-ray Review: Election
The 1999 film Election is now available on Blu-ray!
Election, based off the book of the same name is about a subject that many of us all know and have grown to love/hate over the years. High School and the many politics that govern it. We are introduced to Matthew Brodrick who sadly is not playing Ferris Buller, but a teacher, Jim McAllister, who fails at life yet takes such joy at working with the school and the students there. Reese Witherspoon plays Tracey, a Senior in High School who has had a secret affair with a member of the teaching staff (her actions led to the staff member getting fired). Reese Witherspoon can definitely play a crazy, vindictive, sex crazed co-ed.
DVD Review: The Secret of the Magic Gourd
The Secret of the Magic Gourd is the English translation of the Chinese remake of Bao hu lu de mi mi (which I understand doesn’t mean “Baby website designed to soften human brains of Songbird”). It’s a beautiful children’s story of an imaginative schoolboy, Raymond, who finds the legendary magic gourd while fishing. The animated gourd is sentient and even more innocently naïve than Raymond himself as it grants him unlimited, but flawed wishes much like the well meaning djinn in I Dream of Jeannie.
DVD Review: Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Mystery of the Easter Chipmunk
Well, someone had to ask the question. Was the first Easter Bunny really a bunny or a chipmunk? Alvin is convinced that his grandpa is the original Easter Chipmunk and wants to set the record straight. After talking to Aunt Bunny that the first Easter Bunny was not a Bunny sends Alvin out to prove his grandpa is the one who first to leave Easter Baskets on Easter Sunday. As always he manages to get Simon and Theodore to help. I’m going to tell you the end but this is a cute holiday story for the season.
Blu-ray Review: Office Space (Special Edition)Blu-ray Review: Office Space (Special Edition)
“You took my stapler”.
Everyone has hated their job at one time or another…but what happens when you are pushed too far? Well Peter Gibbons sure knows that feeling in Mike Judge’s cult comedy classic Office Space which has just made its way to Blu-ray! The film is based on Mike Judges cartoon series Milton and features an amazing lineup of acting talent!
Blu-ray Review: Napoleon Dynamite
“Vote for Pedro. He will protect you.”
The hit 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite is now available on Blu-ray!
DVD Review: You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown
When you think of sports, certain names come to mind. When you think of baseball it’s Babe Ruth. For football, it’s Joe Namath. With basketball, let’s say Dr. J. In skateboarding it’s Tony Hawk. But when you think of motocross you don’t think of Charlie Brown. With the restored deluxe edition of You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown the sport of motocross is introduced to the viewers of the Charlie Brown specials mundanely as Peppermint Patty brings it to the gang. Throughout we see how Charlie’s usual run of luck plays out. But the final outcome of the special remains an old adage that I will leave for you to figure out.
DVD Reviews: King Of The Hill and Eden
Do you like wide open spaces? Communing with nature? Camping in the wilderness? Fresh air and sunshine? Traveling to exotic, exciting places, and meeting new, interesting people? I have a double feature from afar that will interest you
First up is an offering from Spain, El Rey de la Montana or King of the Hill. Quinn is on his way to try to win back his ex-girlfriend, but has a brief rendezvous with Bea, a ner-do well, who steals his wallet during their brief interlude. Seeing her car take a side road, Quinn follows. On this lonely, uninhabited part of the countryside, Quinn and Bea become prey, like big game animals. Bea and Quinn are tracked, herded, and hunted.
DVD Review: Mary Poppins 45th Anniversary Edition
A Jolly Holiday
About a quarter century before it came back into fashion with Who Framed Roger Rabbit Disney’s classic Academy Award winning film Mary Poppins was a pioneer in integrating animation with live action, and with the addition of musical numbers throughout, it really is a jolly holiday wiv Mary as she nannys the Banks family and sings her way into our hearts.
Practically Perfect in Every Way
DVD Review: Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia
What happens when professional wrestlers enter the acting arena? Stone Cold has done one fairly well; John Cena has two under his belt. Dwayne “The Rock“ Johnson has such a lucrative career acting he doesn‘t wrestle any more. And Hulk Hogan, well he‘s The Hulkster. Next on the list of possible future action stars, at least if Vince McMahon has his way, is Ken “Mr. Kennedy” Anderson.
Blu-ray Review: Unfaithful
From the Director of Fatal Attraction comes the 2002 film Unfaithful which Fox has just released on Blu-ray.
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Blu-ray Review: Drumline
Can you make it on the Drumline?
The 2002 film Drumline has just been released on Blu-ray from Fox Home Entertainment.
DVD Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000 : Volume XIV
I have always watched bad movies. They are just one of those odd joys that will always exist as long as there are movies. Some are cheaply made, some are poorly written, and some just come together to be crap. But throw in a good riffing throughout and you have an even greater joy, Mystery Science Theater 3000. I grew up watching MST3k, and loved every episode. These guys, either Joel or Mike and their robot friends Crow and Tom Servo would sit through the world’s worst movies and make fun of them. This was a weekly joy for me, and my friends. It was absolutely great.
DVD Review: Top Secret! (1984)
Paramount brings you another classic movie in their “I Love the 80’s” on DVD series.
Val Kilmer has had a few ups and down over his 25 year acting career. He has turned in some amazing performances such as Jim Morrison in “The Doors”, and Doc Holiday in “Tombstone”. He’s also starred in some major crapfests (I’m looking at you “Mindhunters”!). Before all of this, he kicked off his Hollywood career with a pair of brilliant comedies, the most well known of the two being “Real Genius”. The other being the 1984 WWII spy flick spoof Top Secret!.
Blu-ray Review: Max Payne – Unrated
“They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.”
-Max Payne, from his pre-flashback monologue in the original game