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Peter Jackson is in Fine Form with “The Lovely Bones”
Commercials for The Lovely Bones are promoting the movie as a supernatural murder-mystery where a teenage girl who is killed helps her father solve the crime from the after life. It’s understandable...
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James Finds His Giant Peach on Disney Blu-ray
I’m not sure how this Tim Burton film ever slipped by me in the past. Now that I caught up with his latest work, Alice in Wonderland, it’s time I tackle James and the Giant Peach on Blu-ray this...
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Thelma & Louise 20th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray Review)
Thelma and Louise celebrates its 20th Anniversary with this release and it still resonates with a lot of people to this day. The movie became something of an anthem for female empowerment and triggered...
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Who Do You Think You Are? Season One (DVD Review)
Have you ever wondered where your family came from? Or whether or not there were any scoundrels or perhaps royalty in your bloodline? I know I have and that’s why I wanted to review this. The shows...
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Dead Man Walking (Blu-ray Review)
The hits just keep on hitting here at Why So Blu. Up next is a tale of crime, redemption, and punishment in Tim Robbin’s Dead Man Walking. Another popular film from the mid 90’s starring Susan...
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Jeff, Who Lives At Home (Blu-ray Review)
I just realized it that it may be pseudo-comedy week here on Why So Blu – we’ve been dropping them like they were hot all week long and we’re not done yet. Up next we’ve got The Duplass Bros. sleeper...
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‘Robot & Frank’: A Buddy Movie For The Near Future
Sometimes it all just boils down to something as simple as a man and his robot. Robot & Frank is a very low key story that takes a simple sci-fi premise and manages to pull off something pretty...
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‘Arbitrage’ on Blu-ray December 21
Richard Gere (Unfaithful) leads a stellar cast including Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Tim Roth (TV’s “Lie to Me”), Brit Marling (Another Earth), Laetitia Casta (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life) and...
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Arbitrage (Blu-ray Review)
Dynamic performances by Richard Gere and an all-star cast highlight this riveting, suspense-filled thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance. Robert Miller (Gere) is a New York hedge-fund magnate...
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Dwayne Johnson Stars In ‘Snitch’ Arriving This June On Blu-ray
Dwayne Johnson stars in the action-packed thriller, Snitch arriving on Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), DVD (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), Digital Download, Video on Demand and...
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Cloud Atlas (Blu-ray Review)
Ever see something so confusing that looks so mind-bending that you just had to see it with your own eyes despite what your better judgment and gut told you? Well, that’s exactly how I felt about...
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‘Ping Pong Summer’ Bounces On Blu-ray This Summer
Although we kind of fell out of touch a few years back, I still consider him my dear friend in the movie business who I strive and emulate to be one day and of course look up to. The man I’m talking...
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Tammy Is Sad, Messy, and Occasionally Endearing (Movie Review)
It is unfortunate that Tammy does not quite work overall. Here we have a character-based, R-rated comedy, featuring a large number of female characters, with ideas that extend beyond big-budgeted set...
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Ping Pong Summer (Blu-ray Review)
Coming of age comedies are something I can find myself being a sucker for if they can get the right in or hook for me. As I grow older, it becomes more of a challenge to understand today’s youth...
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Tammy (Blu-ray Review)
If there is one film that deservingly has the right and proudly should be able to give the middle finger write at box office pundits (that don’t write for Forbes), its Tammy. This $20 million budgeted...
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Romance & Cigarettes (Blu-ray Review)
Original and audacious. Contemporary and classic. Director John Turturro’s (The Big Lebowski) Romance & Cigarettes is a romantic comedy, a musical drama and, above all, a showcase for an amazing...
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Do Not SNITCH On Dwayne Johnson, But Buy This 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray On June 6th!
Inspired by true events, discover how far one father will go to reduce his son’s prison sentence in the most amazing picture quality available today when Snitch arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus...
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Encapsulated Movie Reviews – Five New Indie Titles
Eight times may be the charm for big budget flicks this week, but on the indie scene five seems to be the magic number. (There’s more of course, but hey I’m only one man!) Auteurs examined and...
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Snitch (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)
I remember seeing trailers for Snitch like crazy during The Walking Dead on Sunday nights like crazy. Why? It had series star Jon Bernthal in the movie (Who was very popular when he was on the show)....
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A Bad Moms Christmas (Blu-ray Review)
A Bad Moms Christmas is an odd one for me to be reviewing here on the site. It’s not because it’s a female centric film, but because I was so opposed to the first one. For some reason I wanted...
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Little Women ’94 (4K Dolby Vision Digital Review)
Twenty-five years after it’s release, director Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar-winning box office hit, Little Women, receives the 4K treatment – and even better, one with Dolby Vision. In theaters this...
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Elizabethtown – Paramount Presents (Blu-ray Review)
Paramount Presents continues to dig into the studio’s history from all eras and fill in the missing gaps of their Blu-ray catalog. Elizabethtown, Cameron Crowe’s 2005 effort, is a surprising film to be...
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