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Entries for February, 2009

Box Office Review: Gran Torino [2009]

Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras
Released Jan. 11, 2009
1 hr. 56 min.
R
Clint Eastwood/Warner Brothers
Clint Eastwood
Christopher Carley
Bee Vang
Ahney Hur
John Carroll Lynch
Rumored (falsely) to be the last Dirty Harry film, Gran Torino lives up to that lineage in many ways. Though the film does not center around the old Eastwood character, per se, the bitter, recently widowed, do-it-my-way, […]

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Blu-ray review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Weinstein Company – 101 minutes – 2008 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 1.85:1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Audio
 
Kevin Smith has a built in audience, and even though it’s a small one, it’s enough to keep him in the film industry. He’s been making films for over a decade, and just when […]

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Blu-ray review: Mirrors [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Fox Home Entertainment– 111 minutes – 2008 – Unrated – 1080p Widescreen 2.40:1 – DTS HD 5.1 Lossless Audio – Digital Copy

 
Hollywood tosses out plenty of horror-thrillers every year, some good and plenty of them bad. In the case of the movie Mirrors, here’s a one that should be placed in the […]

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Blu-ray review: Max Payne [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Fox Home Entertainment – 103 minutes – 2008 – Rated PG-13 and Unrated – 1080p Widescreen 2.35:1 – DTS HD 5.1 Lossless Audio – Digital Copy

 
Movies based on videogames still are not on the level where they are taken seriously. Some have made a ton of money, such as the Tomb Raider […]

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Blu-ray review: Pride and Glory [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Warner Home Video – 130 mins – 2008 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 1.85:1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Audio Mix – Digital Copy

 
Ever since the success of Training Day, the quest to make the next big film about dirty cops has uncovered a long list of movies that still have not […]

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Blu-ray review: Poison Ivy: The Secret Society [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Warner Home Video – 95 mins – 2008 – Unrated – 1080p Widescreen 1.85:1 – Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio Mix – Digital Copy
 
 
Ever had one of those nights where you couldn’t sleep and were forced to watch some really, really bad film on cable at 2:00 am? Well for the next time […]

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Blu-ray review: Old School [2003]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair 
Paramount Home Entertainment – 91 mins – 2003 – Unrated – 1080p Widescreen 1.85: 1 – TrueHD 5.1 Audio Mix
 

 
Old School is a comedy that gets right to the point of letting you know what it’s all about, a bunch of thirty-something year old men who wished they could be the young […]

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Box Office Review: Paul Blart: Mall Cop [2009]

Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras
Released Jan. 16, 2009
1 hr. 31 min.
PG
Steve Carr/Columbia Pictures
Kevin James
Bobby Cannavale
Jayma Mays
Peter Gerety
Keir O’Donnell
Odd as it might be to fathom, Paul Blart was/is a heavily marketed vehicle film for Kevin James. Albeit that the vehicle employed truly is a Segway. But a Segway is exactly the kind of vehicle the Kevin […]

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Blu-ray review: Doom [2005]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Universal Studios Home Entertainment – 113 mins – 2005 – Unrated – 1080p Widescreen 2.35: 1 – DTS-HD Lossless Master 5.1 Audio

 
Without a doubt, Doom is one of the most played games of all time, and the videogame industry owes so much to the success of it, because it made people want […]

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Blu-ray review: King Kong [2005]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Universal Studios Home Entertainment – 3 hrs 20 min – 2005 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Widescreen 2.35: 1 – DTS-HD Lossless Master 5.1 Audio
 
 
The original 1993 King Kong was a masterpiece because at its time it went beyond what anyone imagined could be accomplished on film. Since then Hollywood has attempted […]

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