Category: DVD Reviews

  • The Da Vinci Code DVD

    Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen Studio: Columbia Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Famed symbologist Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is called to the Louvre museum one night where a curator has been murdered, leaving behind a mysterious trail of symbols and clues. With his own survival at stake, Langdon, aided by the police cryptologist […]

  • Shadowboxer DVD

    Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr. Studio: Freestyle Rating: 7/10 THE STORY: Hardboiled and at times incongruous, Lee Daniels’s (MONSTER’S BALL) directorial debut sets out to smash stereotypes with a noirish crime thriller about loyalty, loss, love, and guilt. Cuba Gooding Jr. (MEN OF HONOR) and Helen Mirren (CALENDAR GIRLS) star as Mikey and Rose, a pair […]

  • Cars DVD

    Cast: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt Studio: Disney Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: After taking moviegoers magically into the realm of toys, bugs, monsters, fish, and superheroes, the masterful storytellers and technical wizards at Pixar Animation Studios (“The Incredibles,” “Finding Nemo,” “Monsters, Inc.”), and Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter (“Toy Story,” “Toy Story 2,” “A […]

  • Mission Impossible 3

    Cast: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Philip S. Hoffman Studio: Paramount Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: Super-spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from active duty to trains new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he’s ever faced – Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an international weapons and information […]

  • An American Haunting DVD

    Cast: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood Studio: Freestyle Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Based on true events that took place in Tennessee during the 1800s, An American Haunting tells the story of the only documented case in U.S. history (validated by the State of Tennessee) in which a spirit caused a person’s death. With over […]

  • American Dreamz

    Cast: Hugh Grant Studio: Universal Rating: 5/10 THE STORY: Filmmaker Paul Weitz — whose comic explorations have ventured into the synergistic halls of corporate culture (In Good Company), the perils of psychological isolationism (About a Boy) and the vicissitudes of losing one’s virginity (American Pie)– now delivers a comedy yanked from right-now popular culture…where the […]

  • Reds: The 25th Anniversary Edition DVD

    Cast: Warren Beatty Studio: Paramount Rating: 10/10 THE STORY: Writing has been the only escape of Louise Bryant until she goes to a lecture one night in 1912 and is mesmerized by a radical journalist, John Reed. She leaves her husband and goes to Greenwich Village with Reed where she keeps writing, covering the 1913 […]

  • Nacho Libre DVD

    Cast: Jack Black, Hector Jimenez, Troy Gentile, Moises Arias, Lauro Chartrand Studio: Paramount Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Nacho (Jack Black) is a man without skills. After growing up in a Mexican monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery’s cook, but doesn’t seem to fit in. Nacho cares deeply for the orphans he […]

  • The Dudesons Movie

    Cast: Jukka Hilden Studio: Rhino Rating: 6.5/10 THE STORY: Take a daredevil, a showman, a bone breaker, a mastermind, and a 500-lb pig and a sprinkle of anarchy and insanity and…Crash! Bang! Arrgghh!–you have The Dudesons! Four totally loveable, yet totally lunatic characters living life to its fullest in the idyllic surroundings of the Arctic […]

  • Slither DVD

    Cast: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker Studio: Universal Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: Slither is an edgy blend of heart-stopping terror, wry humor and surprising humanity from genre-bending screenwriter James Gunn, whose Dawn of the Dead became one of 2004’s most surprising hits. The sleepy town of Wheelsy could be any small town in America […]