Pretty Poison is a surprisingly well done romantic-drama with crime thrown into the mixture and features great performances from Anthony Perkins, unsurprisingly, as well as what should’ve been a star-making role by Tuesday Weld.
Category: Blu-ray Reviews
Review: Pete’s Dragon BD + Screen Caps
Pete’s Dragon is a fun flick for the entire family with respectable visual effects work on the dragon and some fine performances from the human cast with the kids coming across well and avoiding the pratfalls of child actors in these types of movies.
Review: Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story BD + Screen Caps
Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story is hardly a great western, in fact it’s a movie filled with a bunch of western clichés and some so-so acting by lead Trace Adkins. Still, there’s a moderate amount of entertainment if only to see Judd Nelson as an outlaw.
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Suicide Squad 3D Blu-ray & Blu-ray Review
Suicide Squad clearly wasn’t the home-run the DCEU needed as demonstrated by both critics and some audiences but although it is very flawed, particularly with the screenplay, I still found it enjoyable if only to see some iconic characters sharing wonderful chemistry.
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Suicide Squad 4K Ultra HD Review
Suicide Squad clearly wasn’t the home-run the DCEU needed as demonstrated by both critics and some audiences but although it is very flawed, particularly with the screenplay, I still found it enjoyable if only to see some iconic characters sharing wonderful chemistry.
Review: Return of the Living Dead 3 BD + Screen Caps
Return of the Living Dead 3 is of course a silly horror film with a romantic twist; the performance by a young Melinda Clarke (credited as Mindy Clarke) is fantastic playing a still sexy undead.
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Review: Black Christmas BD + Screen Caps
Black Christmas didn’t quite grab me as it has others, but there is certain creepiness and combined with a fun cast and some genuine scary moments here and there, along with a twist that’s ingrained in most people’s minds, the film at least was entertaining.
Review: Dreamscape BD + Screen Caps
Dreamscape is a sometimes cheesy 1980s sci-fi thriller but incredibly fun featuring a great cast from a young Dennis Quaid to veterans Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer. Not sure how much replay value it has but it was enjoyable enough.
Review: Don’t Breathe BD + Screen Caps
Don’t Breathe had an interesting premise which to me got stretched too far to the point I got a bit annoyed. That said, the cast isn’t bad and not surprisingly Stephen Lang is creepy as all hell and all in all, it’s at least worthy of a rental.
Review: End of a Gun BD + Screen Caps
End of a Gun somehow is the worst Steven Seagal movie which is saying something given his last few outings. There’s nothing redeemable about it save for Jade Ewen, though it’s not for her acting ability, but I give her props for showing some emotion unlike the bulky star.
Star Trek: The Animated Series Blu-ray Review
Star Trek: The Animated Series is a fine release from Paramount and although the animation itself has all the hallmarks from the 1970s, the stories at least are well written and these serve nicely as unofficial fourth and fifth seasons of the original series, highlighted by its original cast.
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Review: War Dogs 4K UHD/BD + Screen Caps
War Dogs could’ve been better but as it is, the performances by Jonah Hill and Miles Teller were solid, as was Bradley Cooper’s brief role, yet the story never quite hit its mark for me. At the very least, it is worth a rental.
Review: Moby Dick BD + Screen Caps
Moby Dick is a classic adaptation of the, well, Herman Melville’s classic novel and features some fine performances by Gregory Peck and Richard Basehart, not to mention Orson Welles in a small role.
Review: Hell or High Water BD + Screen Caps
Hell or High Water was one of the bigger surprises of a downtrodden 2016 and while I don’t think it’s perfect, as a character-driven, modern-day Western, it is fantastic with performances by Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster and Chris Pine (in that order).
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Review: C.H.U.D. II BD + Screen Caps
Although I preferred the original C.H.U.D. versus this sequel, there’s still some fun to this campy 1980s comedy-horror that is made to be watched amongst friends.