Category: DVD Reviews

Cast: ma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba Studio: Miramax Rating: 8.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Continuing the story-line which unfolded in “Kill Bill Vol. I,” this is a revenge tale of an expert assassin, called The Bride, who sets out on a quest to wreak vengeance upon her former employer, Bill, and other…

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews Studio: Disney Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Fifteen-year-old Mia discovers that her father is the Prince of Genovia and she is the sole heir to the throne. She must decide, by her sixteenth birthday, whether she will live as a princess and move to Genovia or remain in Manhattan where she…

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody Studio: Buena Vista Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: In M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village,” the Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker who brought you “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs” assembles an all-star cast, including Academy Award-nominees Joaquin Phoenix and Sigourney Weaver and Academy Award-winners Adrien Brody and William Hurt, to bring…

Cast: Ron Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, Doug Jones, Karel Roden, Victoria Smurfit Studio: Sony Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE : When a Nazi mystical experiment goes awry in 1944, the target of a wizard’s spell, the child of Satan, Hellboy, is wrenched from his home, and adopted by the U.S. agents who intercept his arrival. Raised…

Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles Studio: Universal Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: The Bourne Supremacy re-enters the shadowy world of expert assassin Bourne (Damon), who continues to find himself plagued by splintered nightmares from his former life. The stakes are now even higher for the agent as he coolly maneuvers…

Cast: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Kevin Corrigan Studio: Dreamworks Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Will Ferrell (“Elf,” “Old School”) stars as Ron Burgundy, the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ‘70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate – TV’s “Married With Children”), Ron…

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, John Ritter, Brett Kelly Studio: Dimension Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: This holiday season the traditional Christmas tale will never be the same with the cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he’s wickedly funny. Terry Zwigoff’s BAD SANTA stars Billy Bob Thornton as one…

Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson Studio: Miramax Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Directed by Academy Award®-winner Anthony Minghella (“The English Patient”, “The Talented Mr. Ripley”) and based on Charles Frazier’s best-selling Civil War novel of the same name, COLD MOUNTAIN tells the story of Inman (Jude Law), a wounded confederate…

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, J.K. Simmons, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris Studio: Columbia Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: In Spider-Man 2, the latest installment in the blockbuster Spider-Man series, based on the classic Marvel Comics hero, Tobey Maguire returns as the mild-mannered Peter Parker, who is juggling the delicate balance of his dual life as a…

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken Studio: Paramount Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: Stepford has a secret: all of the wives are way too perfect, and all of the husbands are way too happy. “The Stepford Wives,” a comic re-imagining of the 1975 suspense classic, follows the tale that unfolds when a young couple moves…