Archive for the 'Blu-ray Reviews' Category

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Paramount Home Entertainment/The Criterion Collection

This epic romance has at its core a serious subject – how we treat the precious minutes of our lives.  The film takes place beginning after World War I.  It is beautifully directed by David Fincher.  Blu-ray captures the splendid detail of each period piece scene […]

Blu-ray Disc Review: There’s Something About Mary

There’s Something About Mary
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
This raunchy and oddly heartwarming romantic comedy from the Farrelly Brothers deserves a place in your collection.
Ted (Ben Stiller) is a young and awkward high school nerd.  In a random act of kindness, he defends Warren (W. Earl […]

Quantum of Solace

 
Quantum of Solace
MGM Home Entertainment (Distributed by 20th Century Fox)
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge 
Quantum of Solace, the sequel to Casino Royal, is a solid addition to the James Bond franchise of spy, action films.  It is a worthy addition to every fan’s collection.
The film picks up where Casino Royal left off.  James Bond (Daniel […]

Blu-ray Disc Review: Into the Wild

Into the Wild
Paramount Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Into the Wild is based on the spirited, true live story of Christopher McCandles (Emile Hirsch), who graduated from Emory University in 1992 and, rather than go to law school, burned his social security card and went on a path of self-exploration across the West […]

Madacascar: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
Paramount Home Entertainment (for Dreamworks Animation)
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Madacascar 2 is the hilarious, zany animated comedy that is a sequel to the 2005 hit, worth a buy for families with children as it is certain to have household replay value.
It reunites us with all the funny characters from the […]

Blu-ray Review: Stargate: The Ark of Truth

 
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Stargate: The Ark of Truth
MGM Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Fans of the Stargate science fiction action adventure television series will want to add this  Blu-ray Disc™  to their movie collection.  It provides a conclusion to a major story line developed in seasons nine and ten of the hit […]

Blu-ray Review: Igor

Igor
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Igor is a macabre and quirky, computer animated comedy, worth a rent especially if you’re a fan of Tim Burton’s animated work, such as The Nightmare Before Christmas or Corpse Bride.  The title character Igor (voiced by John Cusack) is a citizen of the make […]

Blu-ray Review: Babylon A.D.

Babylon A.D.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Don Lindich

Vin Diesel plays Toorop in this sci-fi action, tough-guy movie which is worth renting, especially if you are a Vin Diesel fan.  Toorop is a mercenary hired to smuggle a psychically gifted young woman named Aurora (Melanie Thierry).  He is accompanied by Aurora’s guardian, Sister […]

Blu-ray Review: The Bourne Trilogy

The Bourne Trilogy
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge

If you like spy mystery thrillers with plenty of chases and heavy doses of pulse pounding action, this Blu-ray Disc™ set of three movies belongs in your collection.  Each Bourne Disc comes with U-Control features (additional picture-in-picture content that can be activated as the movie […]

Blu-Ray Review: The Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow

The Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge

The Next Avengers is an animated superhero movie.  I recommend it for the teen and preteen crowd, although there is plenty to please comic book fans in general.  In The Next Avengers, we learn the original Avengers have vanquished evil from the world […]

Blu-ray Review: The Invincible Iron Man

 
The Invincible Iron Man
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
The Invincible Iron Man is an animated retelling or the superhero’s origin story; however, unlike the live action movie with Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger as the villain, the principal villain here is the Mandarin.  It makes a great gift for teenage boys and comic […]

Blu-ray Review: Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye
Paramount Home Entertainment (Dreamworks)
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Eagle Eye is a cyber thriller combined with top notch action with plenty of well done chase scenes.  It exceeds other movies in its genre for pure adrenaline such as The Net, War Games and Colossus - The Forbin Project.  A rental for some and […]

Blu-ray Review: Ghost Town

Ghost Town
Paramount Home Entertainment (Dreamworks)
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Ghost Town is a surprising, small romantic comedy with witty dialogue and great character acting.  A buy in my book.
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) plays a dentist who does not like people.  He would rather stuff his patients’ mouths with cotton than listen to them.  When […]

Blu-ray Review: Drillbit Taylor

Drillbit Taylor
Paramount Home Entertainmeny
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
In this comedy, Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson) is a beach bum / AWOL ex-marine hired by three nerdy high school kids – skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) fat Ryan (Troy Gentile) and little Emmit (Brad Dorfman) – for protection from borderline psycho school bullies (Alex Frost and Josh […]

Blu-ray Review: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight
Warner Home Video
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
The Dark Knight is as much a psychological thriller as it is a comic book action movie.  It is a must have for fans of the genre.  The Joker (played by the late Heath Ledger) is a cynical, sadomasochistic villain who organizes the criminals of Gotham […]

Blu-ray Review: Dr. No

Dr. No
Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Dr. No introduced “Bond, James Bond” as the secret agent “licensed to kill.”  It has been beautifully restored on Blu-ray Disc.™   Sean Connery’s successful, hard nosed spy portrayal launched the 007 film franchise.  Daniel Craig’s tough guy Bond performance in the current Bond film Quantum of […]

Blu-ray Review: The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid
Paramount Home Entertainment (Dreamworks)
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
In The Heartbreak Kid, Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller) is a 40-ish single man who is the manager of a San Francisco sporting goods store. Because he has never made the decision to get married he is the butt of many jokes of his friends. […]

Blu-ray Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still

 
The Day the Earth Stood Still
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Don Lindich
The Day the Earth Stood Still, released in 1951, is one of the two great and seminal science fiction films of the 1950s, the other being MGM’s Forbidden Planet.  A full color production, Forbidden Planet has seen high definition release on […]

Blu-ray Review: The Kingdom

The Kingdom
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
The Kingdom is a taut, international thrill ride of a movie.  I highly recommend it to the movie collector interested in war and espionage movies, or anyone interested in the politics and culture of the Middle East and its recent history.
The movie opens with a short […]

Blu-ray Review: Hancock

Hancock
Sony Picture Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Review By Jerry Rutledge
Will Smith is John Hancock, a down and out boozing superhero in this original action-adventure-comedy.  Hancock cannot remember who he is or where he came from — he seems to be cast adrift without a purpose.  And yet, he is compelled to perform the duties of […]