‘t Find Its Footing
Sometimes despite the best of intentions, things just don’t work out. The period drama Live by Night is based on a well-regarded novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and The Drop among many others). The movie has…
DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for January 10th, 2017
Welcome back to another edition highlighting the newest DVDs and Blu-rays coming your way. There’s an interesting mix this time out with plenty of curiosities. As always, click on any links you see to read full review. So if you…
DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for January 3rd, 2017
Happy New Year! Hope you enjoyed your time off, because the year has started with a lnumber of big new releases on Blu-ray and DVD. We’ve got the highlights right here. So if you can’t make it to the movies…
Father/Daughter Movie Date: MOANA
Sharing movies with my kids is true joy. I’m broken, in some sense, and movies carry more emotional weight than they should. My childhood’s happiest moments occurred in a darkened theater. Vicarious lives lived thanks to Spielberg, Tarantino and Disney.…
DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for December 27th, 2016
It’s a busy time, but the studios are still squeezing in some new releases on DVD and Blu-ray before the year’s end. Surprisingly, some of them are quite good. As always, be sure to click on any links to read…
PASSENGERS Delivers the Christmas Turkey
Occasionally, you see a bad movie with so much talent in front of and behind the camera, you begin to wonder where exactly it all went wrong. There’s plenty that is calamitous with the big-budget, sci-fi/drama, Passengers. My only guess…
SING Hits too many Sour Notes
This is a weird flick. Judging the cover, Sing should be at least decent. Great cast [McConaughey, Witherspoon, Johansson…], a Christmas opening date and it’s a cartoon about talking animals from the studio that brought you Minions and Despicable Me.…
DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for December 20th, 2016
Welcome back to another Blu-ray and DVD roundup. Just because the holidays are here, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t a number of interesting new releases. You’ll find them all listed below. As always, click on any links you see…
ROUGE ONE : A Gritty, Exciting Tale of Sacrifice
I would love to pull out the soapbox to scream and complain about Disney and the Ever-Expanding Do-Over. I’ve done it before and I hate, hate, hate to be a broken record. Regardless, I could spend this brief time with…
LA LA LAND is a Sweet Escape
It doesn’t take long to figure out if you made the right choice. Once the lights dim for Damien Chazelle’s modern day musical we open on a group of Angelinos stuck in traffic on The 105. A song begins which…