While they may not be as famous as The Avengers, the latest animated tale from Disney does indeed qualify as another superhero adaptation. Based on the Marvel Comics characters, Big Hero 6 takes a young group of misfits and fashions…
This film opens Friday in San Diego at Landmark La Jolla Village. For many, it can be difficult to imagine how one might respond in the face of great danger. In Hollywood, such a situation gives filmmakers the opportunity the…
Greetings and welcome to a new week. As always, here are the highlights of what is coming your way on DVD and Blu-ray. Please click on the links to read detailed reviews of several of the listings. So if you…
If you’re looking for something truly bizarre this week at the movies, it’s hard to top Horns. It’s a film that attempts to combine demons, angels, Biblical allusions, teen romance/angst alongside doses of dark satire and bloody violence. As one…
Loss-of-memory films can play host to intriguing ideas. When one loses all sense of self, how do they remember who and what they were, or even if they’re still the same person they were the day before? And how can…
Hello there! This edition is shorter on big Hollywood films, leaving the way open for some smaller movies to get some attention. So without further ado, let’s get into the week’s highlights. As always, click on any links to read…
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a unique experience. Let’s use that sentence as the first example to support the statement. The singularity of the film is like a crisp slap in the face (in…
It can’t be easy adapting a board game into a theatrical movie. Especially when the games themselves don’t exactly lend themselves to the format. Regardless, Hasbro (the makers of Jenga and Pictionary among many others) has developed one that does…
For many moviegoers, Keanu Reeves has fallen off of the radar a bit over the past decade. He’s still been working, but mostly in independent productions. In fact, his last studio film (the much delayed and long-shelved 47 Ronin) was…
Hello once again. It’s another busy time in the world of DVD and Blu-ray releases and there’s little time to waste in getting to the highlights. As always, many of the films listed were reviewed in full upon their theatrical…