by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 15, 2007 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
Disturbia is Rear Window with teens. Does this mean it’s a bad film? No, it’s pretty well done. Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) plays an appealing doufus as Kale, who, not quite his usual self after the death of his father ,whacks a Spanish Teacher getting...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 27, 2007 | Home Entertainment
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker is a good, solid film with an engaging story and fine acting throughout. Matt Damon leads as Rudy Baylor, a recent law school grad. Baylor is forced by circumstance to work for Bruiser (Mickey Rourke), a bottom feeding lawyer at the...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 28, 2007 | Home Entertainment
No one will confuse The Good German with a feel good movie, but it is a nice piece of new Noir with a reasonably authentic old time look–although today’s B&W film seems quite a bit sharper than the old stuff. George Clooney stars as Jake Geismer, a reporter...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 18, 2007 | Home Entertainment
Donnie Brasco is a love story. (Are you nuts? It’s about the Mob.) Yes it is, but at it’s core,it’s a love story. The love that welded our puny species into the most successful hunters in history, and unfortunately made war an eternal curse. That...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 24, 2007 | Home Entertainment
Kidnapped, like the famous Monty Python Parrot, is deceased and I fear no amount of tub-thumping can bring it back. But tub-thump I shall, because…well, I’m not very smart. I am however smart enough to get in out of the rain and to recognize good stuff...
