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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 and so has comedy, […]

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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 mediocre or disastrous […]

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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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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 would be made. But […]

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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 Thunder to blow […]

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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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