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Tag Archive for 'Jared Harris'

Large-Scale Camp Erupts From ‘Pompeii’ (Movie Review)

Sometimes it is fine just taking what you can get.  A serviceable film is not necessarily a bad one if you had an overall good time.  I would be curious to revisit my thoughts on Pompeii a week from now or even a couple days from now and figure out what I would do differently […]

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‘Lincoln’ Finds Courage In Its Craft And Focus

Lincoln is a film that has been a long time coming.  I remember hearing about early stories of director Steven Spielberg working on getting a movie made about Abraham Lincoln, with Tom Hanks being rumored for the role.  Then things became more official, as Liam Neeson was said to be attached.  The time passed, Neeson […]

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Mad Men Season 5 (Blu-ray Review)

After a long delay, Mad Men came back this past spring and was able to continue to show why it is among the best that television currently has to offer. With four seasons already in the bag and an ending in sight, Made Men is basically cashing in on all that has been established thus […]

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‘Mad Men: Season Five’ Is In Business This October

The latest season of Mad Men will soon be available for all to own on Blu-ray and DVD this October.  It is one the best shows on TV and certainly one of my favorites.  Here is what Lionsgate had to say:  The men and women of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce are back with all-new drama […]

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Blu-ray Review)

Around the globe, headlines break the news: a scandal takes down an Indian cotton tycoon; a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose; bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna; the death of an American steel magnate… no one sees the connective thread between these seemingly random events-no one, that is, except the great Sherlock Holmes, […]

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‘Holmes’ Meets His Match In This Shadowy Sequel

The Victorian boys are back in town.  Sherlock and Watson are back and this time they are wrapped up in a deadly game of shadows, as the threat of Professor Moriarty looms in the background.  The first film, from 2009, turned out to be a lot of fun, given the new take on the character […]

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John Carpenter’s ‘The Ward’ (Blu-ray Review)

All good things come to those who wait.  That’s what they say, right?  Well, I’ve been patiently waiting for my favorite director of all time to make a full feature film for about ten years now and here we are ten years later with the master of horror’s newest feature film entitled The Ward. After […]

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