Category: DVD Reviews

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz Studio: Paramount Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: Master explorer Dirk Pitt ® (Matthew McConaughey) takes on the adventure of his life when he embarks on a treasure hunt through some of the most dangerous regions of West Africa. Searching for what locals call “The Ship of Death”, a long lost Civil…

Cast: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu Studio: Miramax Rating: 5.5/10 Corporate Line: Uma Thurman is going to KILL BILL, in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film about a former assassin betrayed by her boss, Bill (David Carradine). Four years after surviving a bullet in the head, the bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and swears revenge…

Cast: ussell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Ian Mercer, James D’Arcy, John Desantis Studio: Fox Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: Russell Crowe is Lucky Jack Aubrey, the Navy’s greatest fighting captain and Paul Bettany is ship’s doctor Stephen Maturin. The ship, the Surprise, is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of…

Cast: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kristen Wilson, Neal McDonough, Ashley Scott, Johnny Knoxville Studio: MGM Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: In Walking Tall, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Chris Vaughn, a retired soldier who returns to his hometown to make a new life for himself, only to discover his wealthy high school rival, Jay Hamilton (Neal…

Cast: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar Studio: WB Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: In Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby and the gang confront an anonymous masked villain who is plotting to take over the city of Coolsville by wreaking mayhem with a monster machine that creates Mystery Inc.’s classic foes like The Pterodactyl Ghost, The…

Cast: Documentary Studio: Firstlook Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: Mayor of the Sunset Strip tells the story of music and fame through the eyes of pop impresario Rodney Bingenheimer, and his friends David Bowie, Gwen Stefani, Coldplay, Courtney Love, Oasis, Brian Wilson, The Doors, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Brooke Shields, among many others. The Good:…

Cast: arah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth Studio: Universal Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE : As the United States is turned upside-down by a strange plague-like event in which millions of corpses walk the earth as blood-thirsty zombies (with the recently-deceased that the zombies kill usually returning as zombies themselves, multiplying their…

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciaran Hinds, Darragh Kelly Studio: Touchstone Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: Veronica Guerin (Blanchett) was an award-winning journalist for Dublin’s Sunday Independent, whose investigations into the city’s drug underworld puts her in increasing danger… The Good: Based upon a real movie and a moving story at that. Cate Blanchett…

Cast: Seth MacFarlane Studio: Fox Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: The most dysfunctional family in Quahog, Rhode Island is “What you’d get if you put Hank Hill, Homer Simpson and Cartman in a blender” (Entertainment Weekly) and they’re on DVD for a final round of outrageous fun on September 9 from Fox Home Entertainment in the…

Cast: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello Studio: Columbia Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: Mort Rainey (Depp), a writer just coming off of a troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy (Bello), finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims Mort stole his best story idea and just changed the…