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Promised Land Movie Review – Just Seen It

Brenna and Aaron are joined by guest reviewer Mark Ellis from Schmoes Know for a review of the new drama, Promised Land. Starring Brenna Smith, Aaron Fink and Mark Ellis. Directed by Sean Wright. Synopsis: Steve and Sue offer a dying farm town a chance for survival. Their company will pay for the right to drill for […]

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Good Will Hunting: 15th Anniversary Blu-ray In August – I Like Them Apples

Good Will Hunting is a movie that I have always really enjoyed since it came out in 1997 and established Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as big time stars.  They won an Oscar for their screenplay, as did Robin Williams for his wonderful performance in the film.  It has been 15 years since that film […]

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‘Margaret’ on Blu-ray July 10th

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment today announced that MARGARET, the long awaited follow up to two-time Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Kenneth Lonergan’s critically acclaimed debut feature You Can Count on Me, will release on Blu-ray combo pack July 10.  Available exclusively at Amazon for a limited time, the two-disc Blu-ray set includes the theatrical version […]

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We Bought A Zoo: Blu-ray Review

We Bought a Zoo is a movie made to make you feel good.  There is no other way around that.  It features nice performances, a nice score, stakes that are enough to keep you involved, but never to really put you in a tense place, and an overall sweetness that is enough to make your […]

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Happy Feet Two (Blu-ray Review)

The sequel to Happy Feet, the Academy Award-winning animated smash hit, Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica.  Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic.  Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven – a penguin who can fly! Mumble […]

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We Bought a Zoo Roars onto Blu-ray & DVD April 3

Over the holiday season, audiences everywhere had a chance to see the latest film from writer/director Cameron Crowe, We Bought A Zoo, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson.  It was an incredibly sweet story, almost too sweet (review HERE), but one that was certainly a fitting film for families to go out and see together.  […]

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Contagion (Blu-ray Review)

My son and I are both sick right now and it’s probably just a really bad cold, but as I watched the movie while coughing and sneezing, I realized that this probably isn’t the best time for me to watch a movie called Contagion.  I’m not usually a hypochondriac, but I’m open to suggestion when I’m […]

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‘We Bought A Zoo’ Sure Is Sweet…

We Bought a Zoo is a movie made to make you feel good.  There is no other way around that.  It features nice performances, a nice score, stakes that are enough to keep you involved, but never to really put you in a tense place, and an overall sweetness that is enough to make your […]

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Gerard’s Top 10 FILMS of 2011

As promised, here is my Top 10 FILM list for 2011. I actually had to scramble in compiling this list, because there was one movie that I needed to see before my deadline and I was confident that it would go on my list. Did it, though? That’s what you’re going to have to read […]

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Rounders (Blu-ray Review)

Wow, looks like it’s time to party like it’s 1999, I mean 1998, up in here!  Time really flies when you’re having fun.  It seems like yesterday when I was watching these two up-and-comers tackle the screen with an industry veteran.  The newbies were Matt Damon and some kid named Edward Norton.  The veteran was […]

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‘Contagion’ Spreads Procedural-Style Chills

With Contagion, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh moves away from his more obscure arthouse fair and back into more mainstream film territory.  The result is a procedural-style thriller geared towards adults and it is plenty effective in having the surrounding audience be weary of anyone who coughs near them after having seen the film.  Using a […]

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Heinz 57 to the Rescue in ‘Contagion’

I left the theater after seeing Contagion with many thoughts on my mind.   They ranged from global epidemics and government cover-ups to animal cruelty and issues of morality.  Contagion opened your eyes to all the questions regarding the BIG IF.  What IF this really happened to us?  I’m referring to a widespread, global virus epidemic, […]

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True Grit (Blu-ray Review)

Father’s Day is coming, so we decided that it would be more than appropriate if Why So Blu posted a nice double header of western Blu-ray madness.  True Grit is part one of the equation with Once Upon A Time In The West being part two.  I remember seeing the teaser trailer for True Grit […]

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Hereafter (Blu-ray Review)

Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon have re-teamed to bring us the psychological thriller-drama Hereafter.  This is Clint’s thirty fifth film as director.  The subject  matter depicted in Hereafter may offend or disturb certain individuals with the recent tragedy in Japan.  It truly is art imitating life.  Hereafter was pulled from theaters due to the sensitivity […]

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“True Grit” Gallops onto Blu-ray June 7th

Paramount Pictures will be releasing the critical and box-office smash True Grit on Blu-ray and DVD June 7th, 2011.  True Grit is a remake of the John Wayne classic and is written and directed by The Coen Brothers.  True Grit stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and the sensational newcomer Hailee Steinfeld.  The True […]

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You’d Be Lucky To Cross Paths With ‘The Adjustment Bureau’

There can be a lot of fun had when you put together two different genres of film.  In the case of The Adjustment Bureau, a romance story is mixed with sci-fi fundamentals.  I put romance before sci-fi, because this film is very much a love story that happens to have a sci-fi twist and not […]

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Inside Job (Blu-ray Review)

One of the most anticipated and well received documentaries of  2010 is Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job. If you’re curious as to how this global recession all started then you don’t need to go anywhere else.  Inside Job chronicles the events that led to a $20 TRILLION global financial crisis.  Yes, I said TRILLION.  Strap yourself […]

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It was an Inside Job…on Blu-ray

Get the inside scoop with the Inside Job on Blu-ray this March.  Chronicling the 2008 recession, Inside Job takes you through the events leading up to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  Inside Job explores these events in detail and with many of today’s important public figures which include: Politicians, financial insiders, and […]

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