New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday June 18.      Jack the Giant Slayer Photo: Contributed Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants....

Superman soars again in 'Man of Steel'

Wow, so where do I begin? It's no secret that I have had a long history with Superman, as the 1978 film was the first movie I ever saw in the theatre and it was hugely influential in fostering my love of superheroes as a child and turning me into the comic book and film geek that I am today. So...

This Is the End = apocalyptic laughs

It was less than a week ago when I saw the lame and uninspiring movie The Internship and I criticized the state of comedy films these days. It's been at least six months (likely more) since I've seen a half decent comedy that truly made me laugh the whole way through. Thankfully the drought...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday June 11.      Oz the Great and Powerful Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he's hit the jackpot - fame and fortune...

Movie Review: The Internship

It pains me to have to continuously lament the sad state of the movie comedy these days, but quite frankly it has become my least favourite genre out there right now due to the lack of quality funny material being released in the past several years. It's been one piece of junk after another...

The Internship on the verge of a 'Purge'

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a peek at what the cinema has in store for us this weekend.      The Internship Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete,...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday June 4.      Warm Bodies A funny new twist on a classic love story, Warm Bodies is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her...

'Now You See Me' all smoke and mirrors

Now you see me, now you don't is one of the oldest expressions a magician uses when they are using sleight of hand and misdirection in order to trick the audience into believing they are witnessing the impossible right before their eyes. They distract the audience long enough to perform the...

Your weekend movie guide

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a peek at what the cinema has to offer us this weekend.      After Earth A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1000 years after cataclysmic events...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday May 28.      Dark Skies From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret (Josh Hamilton...

'Fast & Furious 6' delivers the thrills

It's a pretty rare feat for a movie franchise to launch a series of sequels and end up having the fifth and sixth films in the series being the best of the bunch, but such is the case where The Fast and the Furious is concerned. After seeing the first film back in 2001 and not being overly...

Vehicular destruction vs. drunken chaos

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a peek at what the cinema has to offer us this weekend.      Fast & Furious 6 Since Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian's (Paul Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

Photo: Contributed New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday May 21.      Side Effects This provocative new thriller is about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by...

'Star Trek Into Darkness' a thrilling ride

I find myself faced with a bit of a conundrum. In order to fully describe the new movie Star Trek Into Darkness and truly give my detailed thoughts about it, I would need to reveal massive amounts of spoilers. Now there's likely only 5% of the intended audience that doesn't already know...

Star Trek fans prepare for 'Into Darkness'

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a look at what the cinema has to offer us this weekend.      Star Trek Into Darkness When the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday May 14.      Cloud Atlas Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one...

'The Great Gatsby' style over substance

Based on one of the most famous novels in the history of American Literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece The Great Gatsby, Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann's (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!) latest exercise in visual bombast is certainly a feast for the...

Your weekend movie guide

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a peek at what the cinema has in store for us this weekend.      The Great Gatsby An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) is lured into the lavish world...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday May 7.      Jack Reacher Photo: Contributed After a sniper kills five people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police arrest a man named James Barr, a former army sharpshooter, who asks them to contact Jack Reacher (Tom...

Movie Review: Iron Man 3

There's a reason why the 6 films that have been released thus far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have grossed nearly $4 billion worldwide. Simply put, when done right, superhero films rock. These movies tap into that nostalgic feeling that we had as kids growing up and reading the comic...