Physical Media: 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD Reviews

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition)

Chris Rebholz | Nov 06, 2013

*Note: This review focuses on the extended version of the recently released Blu-ray of The Hobbit, all video/audio specs and special features focus on this release specifically.It was bound to di...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Internship

Chris Rebholz | Nov 05, 2013

One almost has to giggle at the irony inherent in The Internship with regard to Google's well publicized ability to tailor ads for specific people via its technologies like AdSense. This...

Full Review | Grade: C

The Way, Way Back

Chris Rebholz | Nov 05, 2013

If you're too young to have experienced the era of the family station wagon, you may not initially understand the phrase "the way way back", for it referred to the most posterior section...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Heat

Chris Rebholz | Oct 30, 2013

Sandra Bullock both brought the house down and up to its feet into a standing ovation when she started off her acceptance speech for having won the Best Actress Academy Award for The Blin...

Full Review | Grade: B

Shrek the Musical

Chris Rebholz | Oct 30, 2013

There has been a lot of talk over the past several years about the so-called "Disneyfication" of Times Square and Broadway. Broadway, once the purview of creative types who would bring compl...

Full Review | Grade: C

Cars 3D

John Delia | Oct 30, 2013

The 3D availability on Blu-ray just got better with the release of Disney/PIXAR's Cars and even better in a combo pack. The fun film with an extraordinary plot that offers moral values like...

Full Review | Grade: B

Monsters University

Chris Rebholz | Oct 29, 2013

It wasn't so long ago that Pixar rejected the idea of churning out sequels to its greatest hits. Toy Story was the exception rather than the rule, having been succeeded by two critically...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Conjuring

Chris Rebholz | Oct 25, 2013

Nine years ago, few film fans knew the name James Wan. Then along came a little genre gem about a devious serial killer with a penchant for traps. Wan's shockingly low budget Saw (2004) n...

Full Review | Grade: B

Pacific Rim

Chris Rebholz | Oct 17, 2013

There is a time and a place for a frank but thoughtful critique of a veteran filmmaker's love letter to genre cinema. There's also a time and a place to geek out, cast off adulthood, fully emb...

Full Review | Grade: B

Glee: The Complete Fourth Season

Chris Rebholz | Oct 16, 2013

The world of Glee has itself begun to confront the built in shelf life of its format by moving several major characters of previous seasons—notably Lea Michele's Rachel—off on...

Full Review | Grade: B