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Yearly Archives: 2022

Filmmakers don’t always get it right when it comes to adapting novels to the big screen, but director Olivia Newman transcends expectations with Where the Crawdads Sing. Based on the best-selling novel by Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing tells the equal parts the heartwarming and heartbreaking story of Kya […]

Where the Crawdads Sing Review: Novel Fans Rejoice!

July 17, 2022 in Movie Reviews tagged Movie Reviews / Where the Crawdads Sing by Landon H. Johnson

Rarely, a documentary comes along that not only entertains and enlightens but can set a culture ablaze with hope and the uncanny sense that one is witnessing mostly jovial mastery in The Beatles’ Get Back. Which finds Peter Jackson’s incarnation of these same events wholeheartedly different. This was serious work, […]

The Beatles Get Back Blu-ray Review: The Definitive Beatles Doc

July 16, 2022 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged George Harrison / Get Back / Paul McCartney / Peter Jackson / Ringo Starr / The Beatles / The Beatles: Get Back by joeldamos

One of the most flat-out enjoyable experiences at the movies in 2022 is coming home on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital formats—the one and only The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal. There are meta movies, and then there is this comedy/thriller from writer-director Tom Gormican […]

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Blu-ray Review: Nic Cage ...

July 10, 2022 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray / Nic Cage Pedro Pascal / Nicolas Cage / The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent by joeldamos

After the success of Top Gun: Maverick, it’s nice to revisit one of the more underappreciated gems in the embodiment of what it means to be a movie star that is Tom Cruise. He and director Doug Liman joined forces in 2014 and released Edge of Tomorrow. That mind-blowing science-fiction […]

Edge of Tomorrow 4K UHD Review: Doug Liman & Tom ...

July 9, 2022 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged Doug Liman / DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray / Edge of Tomorrow / Emily Blunt / Tom Cruise by joeldamos

Chris Hemsworth was born to play Thor. That was evident from the moment the Aussie sauntered on the screen for director Kenneth Branagh in 2011. He’s back in Thor: Love and Thunder and it’s nice to return to the landscape of the Norse god. The second Thor film in a […]

Thor Love and Thunder Review: Chris Hemsworth & Taika Waititi ...

July 8, 2022 in Movie Reviews tagged Movie Reviews / Thor: Love and Thunder by joeldamos

Animated movies can catch you by surprise and when they do, it is glorious. One of those is The Bad Guys, out now on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital formats. The Good Guys is such as blast. It’s an animated Ocean 11 for the kiddie set, but at the same time, […]

The Bad Guys Blu-ray Review: The Baddies Are Brilliant

June 25, 2022 in Uncategorized tagged DVD Reviews / DVD-Blu-Ray / The Bad Guys by joeldamos

After what seems like several years of hiatus from his original, high-concept, stylistic action films (6 Underground was his last in 2019), Michael Bay gives audiences a ride to remember with the high-speed chase thriller Ambulance—available now on all digital formats, DVD, Blu-ray and the home video version we got, […]

Ambulance 4K Blu-ray Review: Michael Bay Gets Inspired by a ...

June 16, 2022 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray by joeldamos

The Prime Video smash hit, The Boys is back for a raucous season 3. The Movie Mensch was invited to participate in a roundtable with just a few other journalists chatting with two of the show’s headliners, Erin Moriarty, who portrays the unshakable Starlight, and Antony Starr, who in many […]

The Boys Q&A: Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and Homelander (Antony Starr) ...

June 14, 2022 in Interviews tagged Amazon Prime / Antony Starr / Erin Moriarty / interviews / Prime Video / The Boys by joeldamos

One of the greatest cinematic adventures of all time has arrived on 4K with a stunning upgrade, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Paramount Home Entertainment has hit another 4K grand slam with the SteelBook release of the Steven Spielberg-directed and co-conceived—with George Lucas—an instant classic. As production nears its conclusion […]

Raiders of the Lost Ark 4K SteelBook Review: Harrison Ford ...

June 14, 2022 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged 4K / DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray / Harrison Ford / Raiders of the Lost Ark / Steven Spielberg by joeldamos