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Home Entertainment Review: Ironclad: Battle for Blood
Ironclad: Battle for Blood is one of those sequels that should never have existed in the first place.
The Dork Shelf Video Store
Welcome to the grand opening of the Dork Shelf Video Store, your one stop shop for all reviews of the latest DVDs, Blu-Rays, classic re-releases, box sets, Netflix originals, and VOD debuts that you can watch at home!
Home Entertainment Review: Discopath
Discopath (Renaud Gauthier, 2013) – For most people, hearing disco music pumping through the speakers inspires most people to get up, boogie and dance the night away or giggle and remember how silly the 70s were…most people that is. Discopath is blood spattered ode to the giallo and indie horror of the 1970’s and early […]
Home Entertainment Review: A Young Doctor’s Notebook
A Young Doctor's Notebook is a rather deadpan and somewhat macabre slice storytelling that manages to be a vehicle for two actors who want to be known for more than their career defining roles.
Home Entertainment Review: Like Father, Like Son
Like Father Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2013) – Like Father, Like Son is the kind of story that runs the full gamut of human emotions. Writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda revisits his ongoing preoccupation with family dynamics and parent-child relationships in contemporary Japan with this fascinating look at nature vs. nurture. The life of workaholic architect Ryota (Masaharu […]
Home Entertainment Review: Afflicted
Afflicted (Derek Lee, Cliff Prowse, 2013) – Afflicted is a fresh and thrilling found-footage take on vampire mythology that pushes the stakes higher and harder than most of its predecessors, giving the film a real sense of humanity that can easily be embraced. Best friends Derek and Clif set out on a trip of lifetime […]
The June Home Entertainment Round-Up
Time once again for our writers to look to their latest Blu-Ray, DVD, and VOD purchases with looks at new releases The Lego Movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alan Partridge, Small Time, The Cold Lands, Tapped Out, and A Wife Alone, and re-releases for The Life Aquatic, Judex, Hearts and Minds, The Revengers, and Countess Dracula.
Home Entertainment Round-Up: 5/20/14
We play catch up with the DVDs we've accumulated over the past month with Phil looking at Criterion releases for Riot in Cell Block 11 and Breaking the Waves, the recently remastered Sorcerer, a re-cut version of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, the fourth and final season of Eastbound and Down, and the latest Paranormal Activity film. Dave looks at straight-to-video efforts Mr. Jones and Bad Country, along with new discs for Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and Seven Warriors. And Andrew looks back on A Birder's Guide to Everything and Big Bad Wolves.
Home Entertanment Round-Up: 4/7/14
We kick off this Home Entertainment round-up with two Martin Scorsese comedies - The King of Comedy and The Wolf of Wall Street - before looking at new releases for Sam Raimi's Darkman, Howard Hawks' El Dorado, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, and Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People. There's also some B-movie goodness with looks at Alec Baldwin in The Shadow, the 1980s horror flick Night of the Demons, and the made for TV 1973 thriller The Horror at 37,000 Feet
CONTEST: Win a Copy of Homefront on Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack!
Enter to win a copy of the action thriller Homefront, starring Jason Statham and James Franco, courtesy of Dork Shelf and VVS Films!
CONTEST: Win a Copy of Out of the Furnace on Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack!
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, on Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack, courtesy of Dork Shelf and VVS Films!
Contest: Win a Copy of THE ARMSTRONG LIE on DVD!
Enter for a chance to win a copy of the riveting docuemntary The Armstrong Lie on DVD, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Contest: Win a Copy of LANCELOT LINK: SECRET CHIMP on DVD!
Enter for a chance to win the entire and first ever authorized collection of the cult childhood classic Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp on DVD, courtesy of Dork Shelf and VSC!
Home Entertainment Round-Up 10/10/13
This week on video store shelves we look at new releases Fast and Furious 6, Man of Steel, We're the Millers, Touchy Feely Frances Ha, Force of Execution, Jayne Mansfield's Car, Clear History, and Despicable Me 2, as well as classics Nashville, City Lights, and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion.