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Blu-ray review: Iron Man [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair 
Paramount Home Entertainment – 125 mins – 2008 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40: 1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1
 

Comic book movies are like a flip of the coin; sometimes the get it so right (Spider-man, X-men), and sometimes they really screw them up, (Daredevil, The Punisher). But when they’re […]

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Blu-ray review: Top Gun [1986]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair 
Paramount Home Entertainment – 109 mins – 1986 – Rated PG – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35: 1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1/6.1 DTS Master Audio

Maverick, Goose, Iceman, Jester, Slider, Sundown, Viper and Charlie, we know these guys like they’re our best friends and we’ve taken the ride into the danger zone with them […]

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DVD Review: Wayside School - Season One [2007]

Reviewed by Rich Depping
Paramount Home Video – 293 minutes – 2007 – NOT RATED – Widescreen – Dolby Digital -Stereo English/Spanish/French  – Two Discs

The school was supposed to be 1 story school with 30 rooms, but due to an error when reading the plans, it was built 30 stories tall with 1 classroom per floor! And lucky new student, Todd, has […]

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Blu-ray Review: Beowulf [2007]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair 
Paramount Home Entertainment – 114 mins – 2007 – Unrated – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35: 1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1

NOTE: Some portions of this review were taken from our original HD-DVD review.
Beowulf, based on the classic Old English epic poem, has been adapted as a live action film various times, but now […]

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Blu-ray Review: Transformers [2007]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair 
Paramount Home Entertainment – 143 mins – 2007 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40: 1 – Dolby TruHD 5.1 Audio

Last fall when Paramount announced that they would drop the Blu-ray format and only release their titles on HD-DVD, the world shook hard. It was weeks before everyone was waiting for […]

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Blu-ray Review: The Ruins [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair 
Paramount Home Entertainment – 93 minutes – 2008 – Unrated –Widescreen 2.35:1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1

When you first look at the poster for The Ruins, it looks like one of those ‘make a quick buck off of stupid teenagers’ horror films that we’ve been slammed with lately. But if you give this […]

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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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DVD Review: MANswers: The Best of Season One [2007]

Reviewed by Jacob Black
PARAMOUNT - SPIKE TV - 91 MINUTES - 2007 - US NOT RATED - CAN14A - FULL SCREEN - DOLBY DIGITAL: ENGLISH STEREO

Staying true to the testosterone fueled network’s programming, SPIKE delivers a flurry of boobs and POW from the run up to the menu screen on. MANSWERS is billed as the […]

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Blu-ray Review: There Will Be Blood [2007]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair
Paramount Home Entertainment – 158 minutes – 2007 – Rated R – 1080p -Widescreen 2.35:1 – Dolby TruHD 5.1 audio mix

Daniel Day-Lewis will go down in the history books as one of the greatest actors of all time, and anyone who has seen There Will Be Blood can in no way dispute […]

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Blu-ray Review: Cloverfield [2008]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair 
Paramount Home Entertainment – 84 minutes – 2008 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p -Widescreen 1.85:1 – Dolby TruHD 5.1 audio mix
NOTE: Portions of this review come from the DVD version of Cloverfield, with updates in the video and audio sections. 

J.J. Abrams, the man behind TV’s Lost, Alias and the film Mission […]

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