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Blu-ray Review: Iron Man 2 [2010]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair Paramount – 124 mins  – 2010 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Widescreen 2.35: 1 – Dolby Digital DTS-HD 5.1 Audio – DVD/Digital Copy combo   The first Iron Man movie was definitely one of the better comic book-to-big screen adaptations that has come out in the last decade. The best thing about […]

Blu-ray Review: Tommy Boy [1995]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair   Paramount Home Entertainment – 97 mins – 1995 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p – Widescreen 1.85: 1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Audio     The buddy comedy film has been around since the days of Laurel & Hardy, Abbot & Costello, and Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis. Times have changed […]

Blu-ray review: Event Horizon [1997]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair Paramount Home Entertainment – 95 min – 1997 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 2.35: 1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Master Audio     Ridley Scott mastered setting a horror film in space brilliantly in the 1979 movie Alien. Since then, this plot has been attempted many, many times with either […]

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 […]

Blu-ray review: Without A Paddle: Nature’s Calling [2009]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair    Paramount Home Entertainment – 90 mins – 2009 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Widescreen 2.35: 1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Master Audio     The original Without A Paddle movie came out in 2004, and maybe I didn’t get the memo, but I don’t recall anyone ever wishing a sequel […]

Blu-ray review: Days of Thunder [1990]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair Paramount Home Entertainment – 107 mins – 1990 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Widescreen 2.35:1 – Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Audio   When it was released in 1990 Days of Thunder was hyped as being Top Gun on wheels, and because of the mega success of that film, everyone was waiting for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]