Category: DVD Reviews

Cast: Marlon Brando Studio: Paramount Rating: 8/10 THE STORY: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a special agent sent into Cambodia to assassinate an errant American colonel (Marlon Brando). Willard is assigned a navy patrol boat operated by Chief…

Cast: Kristen Bell Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 8/10 THE STORY: The extras available here hardly need two discs to contain them. On disc one: a theatrical trailer and an embarrassing featurette about the “complexities” of the film’s production and the genius of Wolfgang Peterson. On disc two: a feature on the film’s set design that…

Cast: Emmy Rossum, Kurt Russell, Joshua Lucas Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: Its New Year’s Eve and festivities have begun aboard the luxury cruise Poseidon, at sea in the North Atlantic. One of the finest vessels of its kind, Poseidon stands more than 20 stories tall, boasts 800 staterooms and 13 passenger decks.…

Cast: Animation Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 6.5/10 THE STORY: The year is 2021. Deep below the ocean’s surface, looms a vast, magnificently high-tech compound: Sealab. A multi-national scientific station with an annual budget in the trillions, dedicated to the research and exploration of man’s final frontier… Sealab’s crew is charged with exploring the possibility of…

Cast: Jeff Foxworthy Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 4.5/10 THE STORY: The key players behind the popular Blue Collar Comedy tour–Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy, and Larry the Cable Guy–take the next logical step behind the concept here, and turn the riotous, fun-filled performances into a television show. With musical performances, regular features, and a host of…

Cast: Animation Studio: Fox Rating: 8.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Currently the longest-running sitcom on television, “The Simpsons” aired their historic 350th episode on May 1, 2005. The critically acclaimed series features Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson who take traditional family life and turn it upside down. Exploding into a cultural phenomenon in 1990, “The…

Cast: John Stamos Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: This is a story about a sports broadcaster later turned morning talk show host Danny Tanner and his three little girls, D.J. (Donna Jo), Stephanie and Michelle Tanner. Before the show begins, Danny Tanner’s wife is killed by a drunk driver. So he needs help…

Cast: Ralph Fiennes Studio: Bauer Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: There’s no shortage of trenchant political satire in this film starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland, written and directed by Robert Edwards. The story is set in an alternate reality amalgam of Great Britain and the U.S.A., where film and TV celebrities run the government and…

Cast: Peta Wilson Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: This release contains the entire fourth season of the television series that was based on Luc Besson’s French action classic of the same name. Peta Wilson returns as the beautiful heroine, who is once again forced to be a governmental pawn against her wishes. Using…

Cast: Animation Studio: Lions Gate Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: In 1945, Humanity was on the brink of annihilation as sinister forces pushed to seize control of the free world, and only one man rose up to stop them. When a nuclear missile was fired at the Capitol, CAPTAIN AMERICA™ managed to detonate it in the…