Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

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Planes

John Delia | Nov 21, 2013

Planes Is A very fine Family film mostly directed toward the youngsters.

Full Review | Grade: B

Turbo

Chris Rebholz | Nov 19, 2013

It would be easy to simply stamp Turbo as DreamWorks' Cars rip-off. Certainly the similarities are striking, from high speed animated racing and a spot on the map on the verge of...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Paul Kates | Nov 19, 2013

Great news for fans of The Hunger Games: the girl is on fire again and burning just as brightly as before.

Full Review | Grade: B

Man of Steel

Chris Rebholz | Nov 12, 2013

Man of Steel Blu-ray offers stupendous video and audio; despite my issues with some of the creative decisions -- Recommended.

Full Review | Grade: B

Thor: The Dark World

Chris Rebholz | Nov 08, 2013

Now that we're firmly into Phase Two of Marvel's plan for total cinema domination, the titles are coming thick and fast.The next Captain America ( Full Review | Grade: B

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

Lovelace

Chris Rebholz | Nov 06, 2013

There seem to be a couple widely known "truths" about the pornographic industry, one of which is probably verifiable if one were to dig into the numbers, the other a little harder to quantif...

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