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How to Train Your Dragon is the most unlikely of animated success stories. From the mind of Dean DeBlois and starring the eternally awkward Jay Baruchel, the pairing of the dragon Toothless with the lead actor’s Hiccup has proved priceless and endearing long beyond the medium of film. Now that […]

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Blu-Ray Review ...

May 24, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray / How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World by joeldamos

Two things emerge from witnessing the utterly charming and endearingly humorous Fighting with my Family. The true story of pro-wrestler Paige is as a talent announcement for actress Florence Pugh—who blows us away as the British wrestler who hopped the pond and became a sensation. It also serves as a […]

Fighting with my Family Blu-Ray Review: A Love Letter to ...

May 17, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews by joeldamos

Writer-director Christopher Landon scored a surprise hit when he brought Happy Death Day to screens and horror movie aficionados lined up to witness what could simply be called “Groundhog Day meets a slasher flick.” Given that the 2017 film exists in a genre that is more prone to sequels than […]

Happy Death Day 2U Blu-Ray Review: A Baby-Faced Fun Ride

May 17, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray / Happy Death Day / Happy Death Day 2U by joeldamos

Heading into Cold Pursuit back when it was in theaters, hopes were not high. Love Liam Neeson and the action hero role that has been adorned on him since he scored huge in the breakout hit Taken has been one of the most surprisingly awesome things to come out of […]

Cold Pursuit Blu-Ray Review: Liam Gets Even & It Never ...

May 17, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged Cold Pursuit / DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray / Liam Neeson by joeldamos

Taraji P. Henson is such a versatile actress. For example, in the span of under a year, she was explosive in the true tale Best of Enemies and wickedly funny in the gender-swapped remake of What Women Want, What Men Want—out now on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download formats. Henson […]

What Men Want Blu-Ray Review: Taraji Tears it Up!

May 14, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray / Taraji P. Henson / What Men Want by joeldamos

It’s hard to believe, but since we last heard from Emmet and Lucy in The LEGO Movie, there have been not one, but two other LEGO movies—The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Ninjago Movie. With those two successes, producers behind this LEGO movie mania can finally deliver on the […]

The LEGO Movie 2 The Second Part Blu-Ray Review: Welcome ...

May 8, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part by joeldamos

After the thespian master class that James McAvoy delivered in Split, jaws hit the floor and they weren’t from basking in the glow that was McAvoy’s stunning turn delivering dozens of characters all inhabiting one body and a complicated mind. The shock and awe came from the reveal that the […]

Glass Blu-Ray Review: M. Night Shyamalan Breaks the Superhero Mold

April 23, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews by joeldamos

2018 was a banner year for celebrating the brilliance and trail blazing power of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There was the Oscar nominated documentary, RGB, and the based-on-a-true-story narrative starring Oscar nominee Felicity Jones, On the Basis of Sex—available now on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download. Whereas the doc chronicled everything […]

On the Basis of Sex Blu-Ray Review: RGB Rocks the ...

April 10, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / On the Basis of Sex by joeldamos

One of the biggest surprise cinematic joys of the year has landed on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download formats—Bumblebee! The prequel to all those Michael Bay helmed Transformers movies is by far the best one in the series. It’s at least the finest since the first. Why Bumblebee works so […]

Bumblebee Blu-Ray Review: Take Flight of the Bumblebee Home

April 7, 2019 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews by joeldamos