Amelia, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, puts actress Hillary Swank into the role of the aviatrix Amelia Earhart and the Oscar winner ably manages to bring the woman we know through Movietone and press reels to life. Read More...

With Whip It (Be Your Own Hero,) nascent director Drew Barrymore asks the question “What would happen if we followed our passions, instead of our obligations.”
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Recent Kennedy Center honoree and one of the premiere comedic minds of the twentieth century, the Mel Brooks, gets a high definition tribute to his career in this nine disk, Blu-ray gift set. Read More...

For those who have not been able to visit our National Mall and tour the Smithsonian Institute’s museums and galleries, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian provides a gleeful romp through a few of the more popular buildings that are our nation’s “attic.” Read More...

Fight Club is like a big building on fire. You don’t want to watch the carnage, but it is oddly serene in its destructive power. Its just one of those movies that lives within you. Read More...

With a ten-year-old child in the house, my Disney immersion has been thorough. And predictable. Until Up (Disney Pixar; Blu Ray 4 Disc Combo Pack $19.99). I will admit that I did not expect the beautifully crafted love story that I thoroughly enjoyed.

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Out of all the films I most looked forward to enjoying in high definition... well, “Monsters Inc." (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Rated G, $39.99) was always near the top of the list. The movie, originally released in 2001 not only helped cement Pixar Animation Studios as the leader of digital cartoons in the 21 century and beyond but it had multiple levels of humor to appeal to viewers of all ages. Read More...

For Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure the feisty fairy first seen in Peter Pan in 1953, has a new look and mission. No longer the silent girl pining for her ‘fella, this Tinker Fairy has come into her own in this learn-your-lesson driven story. Read More...

The Proposal is not quite up there with Bo Goldman’s 1992 screenplay based on the novel by Giovanni Arpino, it does show that if we don’t like an unlikeable lead character the movie dies before the popcorn is gone. Read More...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 107 minute romp that is breathtakingly fun. But then I am an X-Men fan. The first X-Men comic I purchased was Number 1, signed by that Marvel of comic creations Stan Lee.
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Disney Nature’s Earth is a 90-minute documentary that follows three animal families, along with a variety of finned, furred and featured cousins, as they traverse the varied environments they call home. Read More...

Adventureland is a writer’s movie. Creator Greg Mottola controls his script as director of this colorful, thoughtfully filmed movie that freshly tackles what can easily slip into the stale genre of the coming of age movie. Showing writer and directorial restraint, Mottola has shaped Adventureland into much more than just an angst-ridden teen movie. Read More...

Director Marty DeBergi's 1984 expose of an aging rock band on its last tour raised the bar for exploring the fine line between clever and stupid while giving the fictional Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls a new lease on life. Read More...

Falling down a modern day rabbit hole, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline takes youthful viewers through a fanciful modern day horror story filled with fantastical creatures. Director Henry Selick uses stop-motion animation to create a startling film filled with incredible textures and terrors. Read More...

About the best I can offer about this train wreck of a film is it reveals the brilliance of Peter Sellers. What made master comedian Steve Martin think he could recreate the Inspector Clouseau magic? Read More...

Normally a line-up featuring a French dwarf, two Sumo wrestlers, an assassin with three nipples and secret agent would be an Austin Powers sequel but in fact it was the ACTUAL ninth James Bond movie. Read More...

What child doesn’t wish to be big? To be big enough to ride the twisting roller coasters was my son’s wish. A son who is now, alas, big enough to do just that. Read More...

Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, “Benjamin Button,” is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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Director Robert Wise’s The Day The Earth Stood Still remakes a 1951 classic film, and not necessarily for the better. In Wise’s corner however is the fact that the original movie offered a very real portrayal of the era, including the fears of a populace fearful of the red menace of communism. Read More...

Watching Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” it almost seems as though one is watching a very intimate documentary detailing many of the less then glamorous realities of life on the mat. Read More...

Arriving on a Blu-ray, Frost/Nixon offered me the chance solidify my memories while allowing viewers to appreciate every high definition ounce of sweat clinging to the lip actor Frank Langella, as the controversial president. Read More...

Not since the Wedding Singer has there been an Adam Sandler film that I liked. Now that has all changed with Bedtime Stories. This fairytale brings a family closer together as it reunites Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) with his estranged and uptight, single mom, sister, Wendy, a role enhanced by Courtney Cox’s onscreen likability. Read More...

In The Spirit, Frank Miller brings the life and times of the very humanistic Denny Colt, a Central City Cop reanimated from an early death, to the screen.
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In 1946 the world was a bigger place. The South Pacific was much farther away than it is today. World War II was drawing to a close and the American Seabees were paving the “road” for American troops to invade Tokyo. Read More...

Meryl Streep is my first lady of cinema. Anytime she gets screen time, movie lovers would be fools not to relish her in action. She does not disappoint in Doubt, her most recent Academy Award nominated role as Sister Aloysius Beauvier. Read More...

The 2007 Oscar winner for best picture gets a mediocre treatment in its second round on the Blu-ray format. The movie has the two-headed directorial dragon known as the Coen brothers offering an existential take on author Cormac McCarthy's best selling novel of the same name. Read More...

Now in its sixth decade, the James Bond franchise returns with Quantum of Solace. Solace provides the sequel to Casino Royale, a film that left me gasping. Read More...

Nights in Rodanthe is based on the book by popular romance novelist Nicholas Sparks and it follows a fairly standard boy meets girl, boy and girl heal past emotional issues, boy and girl fall in love, boy leaves girl plot line. Read More...

Move over mere mortal and mermaid Princesses. This time it's all Tink, as in Ms. Tinker Bell and her fairy friends from Pixie Hollow.  Long before Peter Pan and the Lost Boys there were the fairies of Pixie Hollow. Read More...