DVD Reviews

The animated gem Ron’s Gone Wrong is currently airing on Disney+, as well as being available on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download formats. It’s an adorable, timely, film that will please both parent and child. After sharing it with my eight-year-old, we teamed up to pen a review for the […]

Ron’s Gone Wrong Review: 20th Century Studios Produces a Daddy ...

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After Goodfellas, it seemed impossible that Martin Scorsese would be able to top that gangster cinematic paradise, and then he produced 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Now, full disclosure, the 1991 gangster classic is this writer’s favorite movie. But there is something about the Leonardo DiCaprio tour-du-force performance as […]

The Wolf of Wall Street 4K Review: A Martin ...

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Could Steve Martin, John Candy, and John Hughes have known that when Planes, Trains and Automobiles landed in 1987 that it would become the definitive Thanksgiving movie, as well as an all-around instant classic that covered far-reaching topics as straightforward as the importance of family, reaching out to those who […]

Planes Trains and Automobiles Blu-ray Steelbook Review: Those Are Not ...

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One of Australia’s most popular exports came to America’s shores via a Mel Gibson character that he and creator and film director George Miller had created. Mad Max was like an Old West outlaw, except instead of working the landscape of late 1800s New Mexico, Gibson’s Max drove his souped-up […]

Mad Max Anthology 4K Review: George Miller’s Blockbuster Series Gets ...

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One of my big cinematic pet peeves involves the musical biopic. That beast of a movie project is no easy task. A filmmaker is charged with bringing to life a musical existence lived to the fullest where in some cases, enormous social implications were involved that helped change the world […]

Respect Blu-ray Review: Singing the Praises of a National Treasure

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