BlurayAU Reviews

It doesn’t go quite as deep as Christopher Nolan’s live-action film trilogy, but the latest animated ‘Batman’ film definitely skates on a more profound, more complex ramp than say.. those abominations Joel Schumacher directed back in the late ’90s (the only thing deep in “Batman Forever” and “Batman & Robin”, respectively, were the shades of [...]

I’m going to be embarrassed to admit this to everybody after the opinions I’ve read and the critical pounding this film’s received, but I quite liked it. All I can think of that accounts for the outright hatred is the emotional baggage from every other film Madonna’s been associated with. Some of the criticisms I [...]

England in the 1900s. Three little girls are playing in the attic. They are suddenly joined by a ghostly vision. Without hesitation, the three children climb up onto the windowsill and jump to their deaths. Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) is a young attorney whose about to lose his job. A single father (his wife having died [...]

Meet Jeff (Segel). Like the title of the movie says, he lives at home. In his mother’s basement. He spends his days smoking pot and discussing the many interesting facets of the movie “Signs.” He also gets the occasional wrong number calling him. Today someone was looking for “Kevin.” Hmmmmmm. Featuring a strong performance by [...]

Drugs, were told, aren’t good. Heck, we know they’re not. My best friend died thanks to one too many party pills. And an aunt has nothing good to say about the night she made out with one too many small white tablets, because, well, she can’t, she’s dead. And I know many will gladly spit [...]

I have a confession to make here. During my entire time in the U.S. Army I feared for my life for exactly 5 hours. I was very fortunate to serve in a time where the world was relatively peaceful. Thirty years later, sadly, things have changed. Made with the cooperation of the Department of Defense, [...]

This past weekend my wife and I attended an engagement party for our son. While there I did the “dad” thing and contemplated the last twenty seven years. There is no stronger bond then the one between father and son. And no more is that statement proven then in the new film, “The Way.” Dr. [...]

Over the course of my illness earlier this year, being laid up and all, I’ve rediscovered my love of reading – no mate, not porn. I’ve been diving into educational books, business books, and namely, the New York Times bestseller list. In fact, I did so much reading over the course of March and April [...]

“H-7. Hit. B-7. Miss. H-8. Hit. You sunk my Battleship!” If you grew up in the 1970s you remember the television commercial about the two old men playing “Battleship” while attending the opera. I certainly played it enough in my time (though I will admit here that I often cheated, stating “Miss” when in reality [...]

Interesting in that out of all the ”Friends” cast members’ first cinematic efforts, this Lisa Kudrow starrer was one of the only successes, along with Courtney Cox in ”Scream” (the duds were David Schwimmer’s ”The Pallbearer”, Jennifer Aniston’s ”Picture Perfect”, Matt LeBlanc’s ”Lost in Space” and Matthew Perry’s ”Fools Rush In”). And whether it was [...]

Relationships are a bit like the movie prints we grew up with – sometimes they don’t run so smooth. They can be turned upside down, get damaged and need desperately repairing (before being placed back on the spool), and they sometimes don’t play out as planned (you haven’t seen “Twins” until you’ve seen it played [...]

There’s a strange black hole of movie releases early in the year when they’re not going for the midyear videogame tie in blockbuster market and they’re not screaming ‘give me an Oscar’ at the top of their lungs. It gives filmmakers a refreshing amount of freedom. ”50/50” is hard to pin down as a comedy [...]

This was the sort of project that had everything working against it. The very mention of a film version of 21 Jump Street prompted many an eye rolls and discussion about creative bankruptcy in Hollywood. Only two things were going to give it even a chance of being good – poking fun mercilessly at the [...]

If you had any inkling the found footage craze was spluttering out, ”Project X” comes hot on the heels of ”Chronicle” to prove the big trick the movement had yet to pull was to cross genre boundaries. It did so in ”Chronicle” into superhero sci-fi, and the result was a surprisingly fresh well-executed and cool [...]

One of the first films to herald the arrival of Ron Howard into the really big leagues. After ”Backdraft” and ”Apollo 13” he could attract A list stars, wield a great script and call on considerable moviemaking resources, making a dramatic thriller like ”Ransom” seem much bigger than it was. Airline baron Tom (Mel Gibson) [...]