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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 to be […]

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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 at […]

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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 off material. […]

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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 it was […]

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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 than China and Hong […]

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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 it will […]

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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 movie based […]

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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 sequel. Well […]

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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 is exactly […]

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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 director of […]

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