Reviews

Let Me In – A superb remake of Let the Right One in features rising star Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) as a sullen, withdrawn young vampire who develops a

I don’t have much solid proof, but I’m pretty sure Jason Statham is Batman. No, not the Batman in the movies, but a genuine Batman who has yet to be discovered

Red – Bruce Willis reignites his career by actually making an effort for once, playing a retired CIA agent who is forced back into the spy games fold to save

Buried – Ryan Reynolds pulls off an impressive one-man show as an American contractor stuck in an undisclosed location in the Middle East, buried alive in a

Dear Fat Seth Rogen, I miss you. Your slimmer, clean-shaven doppelganger just isn’t the same. Sure, he’s still got the John Goodmanlike growl as the version of

The Social Network – The prohibitive favorite to take home the best picture Oscar is an endlessly rewatchable keepsake on home video. Director David Fincher’s

Backdraft: Anniversary Edition Blu-ray – The 1991 fireman drama, starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Donald Sutherland, may not be

1. Toy Story 3. It ranks at the top because it almost made me cry, not once but twice. The movie blows away the first two movies in the series because of its

The American – George Clooney continues to prove he can do it all, effortlessly slipping into the role of a secret agent assassin who does this and that while

The Coen Brothers are so good at Westerns that anyone else who wants permission to make one should have to get their written permission. Their characters don’t

Salt – Angelina Jolie smolders as a sleeper secret double agent who becomes a pawn in a game of one-upsmanship between the Americans and Russians. Jolie proves

How do you know when you’re watching a bad romantic comedy? When the male lead has to resort to tumbling down the stairs during a phone call to get a laugh,

The Town – Releasing on Friday, Ben Affleck’s best directorial effort to date stars himself as a Boston bank robber with a heart of gold who ends up falling for

The Fighter is about a real-life dude whose life was a remake of the movie Rocky. David O. Russell directs, Mark Wahlberg stars and Amy Adams

Inception – Just about every film by director Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight) is an unqualified masterpiece, and Inception is no different – one of

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – It took three tries, but someone has finally managed to crank out a decent Twilight flick. Director David Slade does away with many

Deep inside every great artist, there is a lesbian ballerina stalker who wants to drug you and take your job. To attain greatness, you’ve got to stab her in the

I am going to blab on and on, as I always do, but the only review you really need to hear about this terrible movie comes from my 3-year-old son, Luke: “Daddy,

Deadwood: The Complete Series Blu-ray – David Milch’s gritty, hilariously foul-mouthed masterwork shimmers in HD. Like a famous gunslinger in the Old West, the

Burlesque writer/director Steve Antin was watching the movie Showgirls one night and thought, “Man, this is a great flick, but it would even better if I added

Like University of Kentucky basketball players, Harry Potter and his pals have decided they can’t wait to finish school before going pro. You can’t really blame

The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko’s heartstring-tugging Oscar contender rounds up a strong cast for a tale of a lesbian couple’s (Annette Bening,

Californication: Season 3 – Each season of this David Duchovny-led sex romp is better than the last, making this the most enjoyable season yet. Duchovny plays a

Zach Galifianakis and Paul Rudd are the leading man-whores in the bromance arms race. Neither has any standards, and will give it up to just about anyone who

The Pacific – HBO’s stunning 10-part World War II miniseries recaptures the grisly majesty of Band of Brothers, following a regiment through a series of bloody,

Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Bl-ray – It’s tough to find an example of more exuberant, imagination-expanding filmmaking than this stunning

If you’ve ever brought together two good friends from different spheres of your life together, only to be stunned at how bored and tedious things got when you

How to Train Your Dragon – My 3-year-old’s favorite movie soars to a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, which breathes potent special-features fire in the form of

The Exorcist Extended Director’s Cut Blu-ray – The 1973 horror icon seemingly gets a rerelease every other year or so, but no previous edition can touch this

Life as We Know It isn’t so much a movie as it is a social experiment. It proves, through extensive mixture of film formulas, that you can make two people who

Beauty and the Beast Blu-ray – Disney is taking its sweet time releasing its animated masterpieces on Blu-ray, but at least it’s giving the films the elaborate

If The Social Network is to be believed, Mark Zuckerberg is a truly remarkable individual. Not because he invented Facebook – or at least managed to swindle

Iron Man 2 – Many moviegoers seemed to have viewed the sequel as a letdown, but I appreciated its quieter, nuanced approach to the iron-suited superhero played

Shot on location inside the part of Zack Snyder’s brain that’s addled by owl opium, The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole certainly has its share of

Robin Hood: The Director’s Cut – Russell Crowe stars as the title hero in this Ridley Scott-directed opus, which bothered some audiences because it neglects the

And the Academy Award for most generic title goes to… The Town! One can only guess Ben Affleck and his team of writers came up with that gem only after

Glee: Season 1 – Those who purchased the first Glee DVD are out of luck, having to re-up and buy the complete season rather than the second part of the first

Last year somehow turned into a television cemetery (RIP Lost, 24, Monk, Ugly Betty, The Tudors, etc.). While many are still mourning the shows of yesteryear,

The Office: Season 6 – Kathy Bates adds some Southern-fried charm to one of TV’s funniest series, playing the boss of a corporation that absorbs the paper

Sons of Anarchy: Season 2 – FX steps into the ranks of HBO, Showtime and AMC with this exhilarating motorcycle gang saga, which plays like The Sopranos on

Justin Long’s character in Going the Distance is a Mac and Drew Barrymore’s is a PC. He lives in New York, she’s a NorCal girl. He takes two steps forward and

Lost: The Complete Collection – Jammed to the gills with extras, including more than 30 hours of bonus material and a number of physical mementos from the show

Oh, to be Nanny McPhee. To travel early-20th century England, using your magical powers to torture bratty kids into behaving at will. To be able to command your

Cougar Town: Season 1 – Courteney Cox proves that the 2010s are the new 1990s. She’s the life of the party as an uproarious single mother in her 40s, a female

If you allow video games to warp your brain enough, you start to view life as series of pixelated levels to be conquered. When you get out of work, you see the

The people who cut the trailer for The Other Guys had an interesting strategy: Rather than show all the funniest moments in order to sucker people in, they

The Breakfast Club: 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray – The seminal 1985 John Hughes drama about the bonding of high school kids from different social strata is

Clash of the Titans – A special-effects heavy orgy of badly-acted yet engrossing Greek mythology, the remake of the cornball classic tells the story of divine

I’m fairly certain Salt is not a fictional drama, but instead an insider documentary on the secret life of Angelina Jolie. Just look at those eyes of hers. You

Cop Out – Writer/director extraordinaire Kevin Smith bizarrely chose to remove the “writer” portion of his title from this disjointed venture, a hit-and-miss