March 21st, 2013 by Aaron Neuwirth
It is funny how some movies strike me differently than others, despite their similarities. Olympus Has Fallen has all the jingoism, xenophobia, and silliness to match awful films like Red Dawn or Red Tails. It is also cheap and ugly enough at times to match an awful film like A Good Day To Die Hard. [...]
February 23rd, 2012 by Gerard Iribe
2002’s Frida would be Salma Hayek’s passion project finally come to fruition after so many years of rejections. She obviously had to pay her dues and build herself up as an actress and producer to get this done. Just because you’re hot in this town doesn’t mean you can always get what you want. It [...]
January 9th, 2012 by Aaron Neuwirth
The end of 2011 brought us War Horse and We Bought a Zoo, which were films that really poured on the sentiment. They were also films that I overall liked, mainly because their aim to be well-meaning and sweet-natured did not affect my judgment on other aspects of the films to arrive at an appropriate [...]
April 19th, 2011 by Gerard Iribe
What happens when the musical genre gets meshed with the biography of the musician who created some very famous musicals? That’s what De-Lovely aims to tell in this Blu-ray release. De-Lovely has a very cool and creative cast featuring the likes of Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, and Jonathan Pryce. In addition to the main actors [...]
May 25th, 2010 by Brian White
When fellow Why So Blu staff writer Gregg Senko asked me to come up with three albums that changed the world of music for me I jumped at the opportunity. I said to myself, “This will be a piece of cake.” Well, little did I know how hard it would be narrowing down my selections [...]
March 24th, 2010 by Blu-ray Brian
This one is just too good to pass up the opportunity to write about. Ahh…the downward spiral career of my favorite actress Ashley Judd instantly comes to mind. Can your career get any lower than starring in a comedy called The Tooth Fairy with The Rock? I think she can pretty much kiss any aspirations of [...]
October 2nd, 2009 by Blu-ray Brian
Oh no! Not another day of no Blu-ray news and web hosting problems! Say it ain’t so? I’m afraid that it. Oh well. At least it’s Friday and I do have one bit of Blu-ray news to talk about. I’m not really feeling good about this news so it pains me to be the bearer [...]