Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

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When Chris was but a wee lad growing up in the slums of suburban New Jersey, he happened to rent a little movie called Tron. Then his head exploded. It was at the moment that he realized that he loved movies, and since then Chris has made it a habit of renting movies, going to the movies, discussing his favorite movies, and anything else in between when it comes to that genre.

Heart of the Country

Aug 30, 2013

"Heart of the Country" releasing to DVD on Aug. 20, isn't necessarily a bad movie, but there's really not much that is too memorable in the 87-minute runtime. The story is a by the n...

Full Review | Grade: C

Star Trek Into Darkness

Aug 27, 2013

I was completely swept away by the 2009 reinvention of "Star Trek". Director J.J. Abrams approached an impossible creative challenge with startling confidence, restoring awe to a brand name that ha...

Full Review | Grade: A

Epic

Aug 27, 2013

The title of Blue Sky Studios' latest animated film seems to be both ironic and sincere, the former because Epic is concerned with an incredibly small-scale view—it stars little woo...

Full Review | Grade: B

Grey's Anatomy Physical Media: DVD Review

Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Ninth Season

Aug 26, 2013

Grey's Anatomy came onto the TV scene, believe it or not, over 9 years ago and during that time has garnered a strong and loyal following. Mostly, the audience for this show is women which isn't so su...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Great Gatsby

Aug 26, 2013

There's no shortness of irony swirling around Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, a slick but shallow retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. From Strictl...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Muppet Movie Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

The Muppet Movie: The Nearly 35th Anniversary Edition

Aug 15, 2013

The first, some would argue best Muppets movie could have easily been the last. On-set tensions between director James Frawley and producer Jim Henson could have spilled over into the film. Henson'...

Full Review | Grade: B

Trance

Aug 05, 2013

Woody Allen famously said, "The heart wants what the heart wants," but what we often forget is that everything we attribute to the "heart" is actually a product of the brain—...

Full Review | Grade: B

Twixt

Aug 05, 2013

Who'd've thought we'd see the day when the once-great Francis Ford Coppola, the director who brought us The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, would be reduced to releasing a cringe-worthy stra...

Full Review | Grade: D

Oblivion

Aug 05, 2013

"Oblivion" is sci-fi entertainment that recalls genre pictures from the 1980s and ‘70s, where character and spectacle were more evenly matched. It's a strikingly designed and photo...

Full Review | Grade: A

Stoker

Jun 26, 2013

A "stoker," for those of you who don't know, is someone who adds fuel to a fire. Gets it roaring, heated up, feeding the flames. This is the underlying metaphor of Stoker, a twisted comi...

Full Review | Grade: B