This week on DVD and Blu-Ray, takes on Mel Gibson in Get the Gringo , Lockout, Friends With Kids, Being Flynn A Bag of Hammers, and the fourth season of TV's Sanctuary , while Phil Brown sinks into American Reunion, Silent House , and Bobcat Golthwait's God Bless America .
In a busy week for little seen movies coming to DVD and Blu-ray, we take a look at Nicolas Cage in Seeking Justice , Willem Dafoe in The Hunter , director Morgan Spurlock's look at the San Diego Comic-Con, the offbeat comedy Jesus Henry Christ , Jon Voight in Beyond , and the aptly titled dark comedy Some Guy Who Kills People .
Wrapping up our look at the cinematic offerings for the month of June, we take a look at some real heavy hitters with Brave, Moonrise Kingdom, Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Snow White and the Huntsman, Rock of Ages, and Piranha 3DD , which will undoubtedly win the box office crown for the month.
While it never quite lives up to its hype as being an exact clone Escape from New York in space, Lockout manages some moments of cheesy fun and some decent action sequences.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is the kind of film that will probably freak out pre-teens in the same way Goosebumps books or TV’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? did. It feels lovingly crafted by people who missed being stuck home on a Friday or Saturday night with their parents. In its own […]
Anytime a film has Guillermo del Toro’s name attached to it, a viewer has some fairly standard and somewhat high expectations. Del Toro wrote the screenplay for and produced Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark , which has many of his signature tropes. This film is admittedly not up the standards of his previous work, but it is a better-than-average horror-fantasy film with a decent story and enough scares to keep it entertaining.
