Fans of Steven Spielberg’s updated version of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds should circle June 1, 2010 on their calendars. That’s when Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing the epic film on Blu-ray. Details from Paramount’s press release follow the jump.
Tag: Paramount Home Video
DVD REVIEW: Up in the Air Soars on DVD!
Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air is a great film. What makes it so remarkable isn’t just that it’s timely and brilliant – it’s that it started out to be one thing and then, when the world’s financial climate changed radically, Reitman adapted it to fit the times in a way that is, topically at […]
DVD REVIEW; VEGA$: The First Season, Volume 2 – Michael Mann’s First Series Picks Up Steam!
Although he only wrote one episode, VEGA$ bore the stamp of series creator Michael Mann. It was a slick detective series set in Las Vegas – a place where, especially then, the flashy façade hid a grittier reality. The big hotels and casinos [like the long gone Stardust Hotel and The Sands] where not family […]
The Lovely Bones coming to Blu-ray April 20, 2010
The Lovely Bones never gained traction at the box office, maybe it’ll find it’s audience on Blu-ray and DVD this April. The Blu-ray will include a 15 Part Documentary called Filming The Lovely Bones—An extensive production diary in 15 segments hosted by Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens that follows the film’s shoot and post-production work […]
DVD REVIEW: The Sarah Silverman Program: Season 2, Volume 2 – Whimsically Shocking Series is Hit or Miss!
Sarah Silverman is an actor/stand-up comic who looks like an especially pretty girl next door while writing material that can best be described as whimsically shocking. How else to explain an episode of her The Sarah Silverman Program that weds a low-budget animated Little Mermaid spoof with bedwetting?
DVD REVIEW: Becker: The Third Season – Before House, There Was Becker!
I have no idea if David Shore was influenced by Becker when he was creating Dr. Gregory House, but as I screened the third season of Becker, I couldn’t help but think that it wouldn’t have taken much to turn Ted Danson’s second hit series [six seasons] into a drama.
DVD REVIEW: Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening – Sorry, Dude, Vulgarity Requires More Than Volume!
Lenny Bruce went to jail for taking street language onstage and giving it a context. Richard Pryor went to jail for drugs – and giving vulgarity music. George Carlin took a more philosophical approach but still got arrested. By the time that David Milch’s Deadwood gave vulgarity a Shakespearean poetry, the days of jail time […]
DVD Review: Taxi: The Final Season – The Sunshine Cab Co. Lives On…
Over the course of its five-year run, Taxi was one of the best-loved sitcoms in North America because its comedy was derived from the creation and development of characters who were fleshed out and felt real – even [or maybe especially] the burnt out, but warm-hearted “Reverend Jim” Ignatowski [Christopher Lloyd] and the Gravases, Latka […]
DVD: Paranormal Activity Is Just As Creepy On The Small Scream; I Mean, Screen!
By now, pretty much the entire North American population is aware that Paranormal Activity – the little movie that could – was shot on a budget of $15,000. College and midnight screenings were packed and the response was almost universally good, so Paramount Pictures – after kudos by people like Steven Spielberg – decided to […]
Blu-ray – Michelle Selects the Best Blu-rays of 2009!!
It’s that time of the year where we all sit back and take stock on the year that just went by. I have to say this has been a pretty, ok year personally and professionally. Entertainment wise, I think it goes down as one of the worst years in a long time – bad movies, […]
Blu-ray Review: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Most Disappointing Blu-ray Release of 2009
I don’t know what the folks at Paramount are doing these days. First they wouldn’t screen GI Joe: Rise of Cobra for critics during it’s summer run, now they’ve taken it a step further by not sending out review copies of the DVD/Blu-ray to critics – and why should they? The movie still went on […]