Category: DVD Reviews

Cast: Joe Egender Studio: Heretic Films Rating: 7/10 FILE UNDER: Lurking? Where? CORPORATE LINE : Joe Egender gives a “breakout performance” in this film festival hit as Conrad Stevens, a lackadaisical writer who finds himself evaluating his raucous, beer drinking, non-committal life on the night of his 30th birthday party. Feeling trapped in his suburban…

Cast: Vin Diesel, Ja Rule, Keith David, Thandie Newton, Karl Urban Studio: Universal Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: The further adventures of Riddick (Vin Diesel) continue five years later, as the escaped convict with the ability to see in the dark finds himself caught in the middle of a galactic war between two opposing forces, with…

Cast: Mark A. Altman, John Billingsley, Marissa N. Blanchard, Shane Brolly, Ellie Cornell Studio: Anchor Bay Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Christine Taylor (DODGEBALL, ZOOLANDER and THE CRAFT) stars as Amy, a young schoolteacher with a lifelong fear of hospitals. But when her boyfriend is injured in a car crash and taken to a hospital that…

Cast: Dave Chappelle Studio: Rogue Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: A genuine crowd-pleaser, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party spotlights comedy superstar Dave Chappelle as he presents a Brooklyn neighborhood with its very own once-in-a-lifetime free block party. The unprecedented combination of comedy and music was shot on location. In addition to Mr. Chappelle performing all-new material, the…

Cast: Directed by Robert Gaffney Studio: Dark Sky Films Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: During a solo space mission to Mars, NASA astronaut Col. Frank Saunders (Robert Reilly)—who happens to be an experimental android—is shot down by an alien warship. Frank survives the attack, crash-landing on Puerto Rico. The space aliens—led by Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold)…

Cast: Christopher Lee, Tim James Studio: Subversive Cinema Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Funny Man is a riotous rollercoaster of gore, bad taste, profanity and comedy that has gained legendary cult status with UK horror fans. Record producer Max Taylor (Benny Young) is ecstatic when he wins Callum Chance’s (Christopher Lee) ancestral mansion in a poker…

Cast: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti Studio: Fox Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women — naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O’Hara, and buxom beauty Jennifer North — as they attempt to achieve fame…

Cast: Matthew McCaughey Studio: Universal Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: Jonathan Mostow’s (BREAKDOWN) World War II submarine thriller about a crew of inexperienced American mariners forced to pilot a disabled German U-boat through hostile waters delivers plenty of action while paying homage to such war genre greats as DAS BOOT and DESTINATION TOKYO. Matthew McConaughey (EDTV)…

Cast: Grenier, Adrian Dillon, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Ferrara, Jerry Piven, Jeremy Mazar, Debi Studio: HBO Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: In the second season of ENTOURAGE, actor-on-the-rise Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier) once again enlists the company and support of his childhood pals from Queens, New York, to join him on his path towards stardom. More than…

Cast: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Earl Hindman, Taran Noah Smith, Jonathan Studio: Disney Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Power up for season four of the Emmy(R) Award-winning hit comedy HOME IMPROVEMENT! Tim Allen is back as Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, a loving husband and father who spends his days as the accident-prone host of the…