Category: DVD

‘Nightcrawler’ DVD Review

Nightcrawler is the story of Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), an industrious young man who independently breaks into the niche business of “stringing” (i.e. “nightcrawling”) which entails capturing breaking stories on film to sell to news networks. More specifically, he captures

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‘John Wick’ DVD Review

I can’t figure out why ’90s action seems superior to the constantly delivered dredge today. Maybe it was my adolescent self, blinded by glorious violence. Maybe it was the feeling that writers and directors didn’t overthink it as much. Or

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‘Middle of Nowhere’ DVD Review

Middle of Nowhere is an independent film from writer/director Ava DuVernay. If that name sounds familiar it’s because she also directed the recently released Selma, which is up for Best Picture at the 2015 Oscars. Middle of Nowhere is the story

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‘Alien Outpost’ Theatrical Review

Making sci-fi action flicks is hard. You have effects (both CGI and practical), you have actors playing alien species, and you have to either go way over the top or base your story in reality to remain believable. There are

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‘Not Another Happy Ending’ DVD Review

Amy Pond’s ultimate fate? It wasn’t to be zapped back in time to live out her days with Rory in 1938. No, instead she was zapped into a by-the-numbers and completely forgettable Scottish rom-com that I suspect went into production

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‘Abstraction’ DVD Review

When not only the very first scene but the very first shot in a film contains unnecessary nudity, it doesn’t exactly instill confidence that a brilliant and captivating plot is soon to follow. Sure, it could happen, but it’s about

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‘The Phoenix Project’ DVD Review

No, not the book The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps and Helping Your Business Win. No, not The Phoenix Project, the child trafficking and prostitution prevention program in Southeast Asia. No, not The Phoenix Project, the City of

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‘APP’ DVD Review

Confession time – when I start to read the plot synopsis for a horror movie and it starts with “a group of college friends…” I immediately set it back on the shelf or continue scouring Netflix for something with protagonists

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‘1,000 Times Goodnight’ DVD Review

We see images of war, poverty, and suffering almost every day. It’s easy to become desensitized to these images, and it’s easy to forget there are real lives and real people lying behind the poignant images we seen on the

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‘A Life in Dirty Movies’ DVD Review

Filmmaker Joe Sarno was known as the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street. Writer/director of some 122 sexploitation films, Sarno brought an artistic style to the films he made. His stories were more palpable than those of the other sex-oriented films

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