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When Aladdin landed on screens back in the early 90s, it signified the fact that Walt Disney Animation was once again on a hot streak. It is one that is still going strong today, and in fact, has grown exponentially. Aladdin also featured a stroke of casting genie genius with […]

Aladdin Signature Edition Blu-Ray Review: Pure Magic

September 15, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged Aladdin / DVD Reviews by joeldamos

A gem of a flick landed earlier this year starring Bill Murray and Adam Driver as small town cops who wind up over their head when their beloved hometown is overrun with … zombies! The Dead Don’t Die is a rarity in that it combines a few genres in one […]

The Dead Don’t Die Blu-Ray Review: A Farcical Feat

September 13, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged Adam Driver / Bill Murray / DVD Reviews / DVD-Blu-Ray / The Dead Don't Die by joeldamos

Are you in tune with your surroundings? How often in this age of burgeoning self-awareness has that question been asked. The film The Sound of Silence takes that notion to a whole nether level never before considered. Peter Sarsgaard stars as a home tuner who ensures that the noise—however subtle—emitted […]

The Sound of Silence Review: In the Key of Fascination

September 13, 2019 in Movie Trailers tagged Movie Reviews / The Sound of Silence by joeldamos

Many of my fellow critics are hailing the performance of Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers. Don’t get me wrong, for the entire running time of the film, she is a force of nature, a hurricane of power that must be reckoned with constantly through writer-director’s Lorene Scafaria sensational film. But let’s […]

Hustlers: J. Lo and Constance Wu’s Friendship Film Flashes Major ...

September 13, 2019 in Movie Reviews tagged Constance Wu / Hustlers / Jennifer Lopez / Movie Reviews by joeldamos

As an enormous fan of INXS, I was destroyed when lead singer Michael Hutchence killed himself in 1997. He seemed to have it all, but as is the case so often with suicides from any walk of life, looking under the surface unveiled something deeply troubled. For those of us […]

Mystify: Michael Hutchence Trailer Teases Doc on INXS’s Enigmatic Lead

September 11, 2019 in Movie Trailers tagged Movie Trailers / Mystify: Michael Hutchence by joeldamos

When Robin Williams headed into a recording booth and laid down his vocal contribution to the 1992 Disney animated smash Aladdin, could anyone who was lucky enough to be there for those sessions have any idea that what the comic mastermind was doing would go down as one of the […]

Aladdin 4K Blu-Ray Review: Disney Does It Again

September 11, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged Aladdin / DVD Reviews / DVD-Blu-Ray by joeldamos

John Rambo, played by Sylvester Stallone, first came into our consciousness on the big screen back in 1982. The reluctant hero initially riveted readers in 1972 with David Morrell’s bestselling book of the same moniker. The singularly titled Rambo (from 2008) is out now on a spiffy 4K Blu-Ray upgrade. […]

Rambo 4K Blu-Ray: Stallone’s Surprisingly Fierce Flick (That Will Make ...

September 10, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / DVD-Blu-Ray / Rambo / Sylvester Stallone by joeldamos

If there was a franchise that had been dormant for a while that could use a shot in the arm it is Men in Black. It is such a wildly original world and expanding its universe would not even be that hard. Thus far, we’ve just seen Will Smith and […]

Men in Black International DVD Review: A Bevy of Brilliant ...

September 8, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged Chris Hemsworth / DVD Reviews / Men in Black International / Tessa Thompson by joeldamos

The first It arrived in 2017 and was a critical and box office bonanza. The Stephen King page to screen effort vastly improved on the 1990 television miniseries, but that is not saying much. Simply as a cinematic effort, it rocked our world as it introduced us to The Losers […]

It Chapter Two Review: “I craved you … I’ve missed ...

September 6, 2019 in Movie Reviews tagged It Chapter 2 / James McAvoy by joeldamos