Blogcritics

Blu-ray Review: Wanted (2008)

El Bicho — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:03:10 EST

I wanted my wasted time back after sitting through this mess.
Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted is simply stunning. And it has to be, because if the viewers aren’t stunned by the frenetically paced action and loud soundtrack, they will see how utterly stupid the story is. Loosely based on the Top Cow comic book series written by Mark Millar and drawn by J. G. Jones, which had a terrific story that the...

Blu-ray Review: Into The Wild

El Bicho — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:36:17 EST

There are lessons to be learned for anyone who goes "Into The Wild."
Adapted from Jon Krakauer’s best-selling 1996 book of the same name, Sean Penn writes and directs the story of Christopher McCandless, a young man who died at the age of 24 in 1992 under undetermined circumstances after living alone in the Alaskan wilderness for approximately 112 days. Penn cut out Krakauer and tales of similar wilderness...

Blu-ray Review: Ghost

The Masked Movie Snobs — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:27:42 EST

An enjoyable and touching love story.
Written by Senora BichoGhost has always been one of my fondest movie memories. My girlfriends and I saw it multiple times when it was in the theaters in hopes that one day we would find a love like Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Ghost came out in 1990 and was a big box office success and even earned Whoopi Goldberg an Academy Award for best...

Blu-ray Review: The X-Files - I Want To Believe (Ultimate X-Phile Edition)

El Bicho — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:45:52 EST

It may work for hardcore X-philes, but I found "I Want To Believe" unsatisfying.
The X-Files ran for nine seasons on FOX from 1993 to 2002, and mainly detailed the exploits of FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they investigated cases involving matters paranormal, extraterrestrial, or other topics familiar to listeners of the nationally syndicated, overnight radio program Coast to Coast...

Blu-ray Review: LOST - The Complete Fourth Season

El Bicho — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:41:18 EST

Was it a mistake to get off the island?
If you haven’t watched LOST before, turn around immediately and go back. The series is a serialized drama that absolutely needs to be watched from the beginning to get the full impact of its storytelling. LOST - Season Four continues the adventures of the survivors of Oceanic 815 in one of the most imaginative television series of the...

Blu-ray Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

El Bicho — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:38:48 EST

Don�t stand still. Get The Day The Earth Stood Still into your video library.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) is a science fiction classic and in The Odyssey File, which featured correspondence between Arthur C. Clarke and 2010 director Peter Hyams, Clarke dubbed it the seventh greatest film of all time in 1983, one place ahead of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Clarke co-wrote. A spaceship lands in a park in Washington...

Blu-ray Review: The Dark Knight (Two-Disc Special Edition)

El Bicho — Mon, 8 Dec 2008 01:26:55 EST

Gotham's Caped Crusader is unleashed on Blu-ray.
Second on the all-time U.S. box-office total (if you pay no attention to adjusted values), The Dark Knight will be returning to theaters on Jan. 23. Yet, if would like to see it, or see it again, you don’t have to wait that long because not only is December 9th the official date of the home video debut of both the single- and two-disc DVD...

Blu-Ray Review: George Carlin - It's Bad For Ya

El Bicho — Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:41:50 EST

Unfortunately, this is the last collection of new material Carlin will give us.
Legendary comedian George Carlin performed It's Bad For Ya, his 14th and unfortunately his last HBO comedy special live on March 1, 2008 from Wells Fargo Center For The Arts in Santa Rosa, California. A CD of the performance was previously released on July 29, 2008 and it is now available for home video on DVD and Blu-ray.As the 68-minute...

Blu-ray Review: Tropic Thunder (Unrated Director's Cut)

El Bicho — Mon, 1 Dec 2008 21:27:54 EST

�Man, I don't drop character 'till I done the DVD commentary.�
Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller’s comic take on Hollywood, tells the story of a group of actors shooting Damien Cockburn’s (Steve Coogan) Tropic Thunder, the film version of Vietnam veteran John “Four Leaf” Tayback’s (Nick Nolte) book Tropic Thunder about his war exploits. Stiller’s film has more clever...

Blu-Ray Review: WALL�E (Three-Disc Special Edition)

El Bicho — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:15:40 EST

Likely to be included on many 2008 Top-Ten lists for both films and Blu-rays.
WALL·E finds the gang at Pixar, led by director and co-writer Andrew Stanton, continuing their high level of quality, animated filmmaking with a multi-layered futuristic tale about life and love. The film opens on an Earth of the future, where the human population has left because the planet has become inhabitable due to all the garbage...