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Entries for August, 2008

Blu-ray Review: Drillbit Taylor [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair Paramount Home Entertainment – 109 minutes – 2008 – Unrated – 1080p -Widescreen 2.35:1 – Dolby TruHD 5.1 audio mix Way back in 1980 there was a film called My Bodyguard that featured a young Matt Dillon, about a teenager in high school who is being bullied and hires another classmate […]

Blu-ray Review: Justice League: Season One [2002]

Reviewed by Rich Depping Warner Home Video – 575 minutes – 2002 – Unrated – 1080p 1.33:1 – Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio – English SDH – Three Discs After having wrapped up several other successful DC superhero cartoon series’ (Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS, Batman Beyond), the crew at Warner Animation decided to take a crack […]

Blu-ray Review: Earth: The Biography [2007]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair BBC VIDEO – 230 minutes – 2007 – Unrated –Widescreen 1.78:1 – DTS HD 5.1 Audio – Two Discs  When Planet Earth was released on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray it was huge seller for the formats, even with its $100 price tag, because it’s superior image quality was the ultimate show […]

Blu-ray Review: Point Break [1991]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair  Twentieth Century Fox – 122 minutes – 1991 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 2.35:1 – DTS HD 5.1 Lossless Audio   “One hundred percent pure adrenaline,” was the tagline for the 1991 action film, Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. Point Break was not a box office hit when […]

DVD Review: The Legend of the Shadowless Sword [2005]

Reviewed by Rich Depping NEW LINE CINEMA / CJ ENTERTAINMENT – 116 MIN – 2005 – RATED R WIDESCREEN 2.35:1 – DTS 5.1 SURROUND, DOLBY DIGITAL SURROUND 5.1, STEREO KOREAN LANGUAGE ONLY W/ ENGLISH OR SPANISH SUBTITLES It’s refreshing, for a change, to see these epic martial arts & swords type films from places other […]

Blu-ray Review: Batman: Gotham Knight [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair  Warner Premiere – 76 mins – 2008 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85: 1 – Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio Batman is the most popular guy on the planet at the moment, with The Dark Knight in theaters breaking every record to date; Bat-mania has taken over once again. Since […]

Blu-ray Review: The Scorpion King [2002]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair  Universal Studios Home Entertainment – 1 hr 32 mins – 2002 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35: 1 – DTS-HD Lossless Master 5.1 Audio Riding on the success of the The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, Universal gave the go ahead to expand on the franchise with a spin-off […]

Blu-ray Review: The Mummy Returns [2001]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair  Universal Studios Home Entertainment – 2 hrs 10 mins – 2001 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35: 1 – DTS-HD Lossless Master 5.1 Audio After The Mummy racked up over $400 million worldwide at the box office in 1999, you had to know there was going to be a […]

Blu-ray Review: The Mummy [1999]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair  Universal Studios Home Entertainment – 2 hrs 5 mins – 1999 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35: 1 – DTS-HD Lossless Master 5.1 Audio Universal owns the rights to several classic movie monsters, so it’s always good to dust one off and revive it for a new audience, which […]

Blu-ray Review: 10,000 BC [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair  Warner Home Video – 109 minutes – 2008 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Widescreen 2.40:1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Audio Mix – Digital Copy It’s very hard to watch the film 10,000 BC and not wonder if the filmmakers were serious or is this some sort of spoof. Roland Emmerich, the […]