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La Jetee/Sans Soleil: BD Review

The movie that famously inspired Gilliam's 12 Monkeys gets the Criterion Blu-ray treatment....

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Love Story: BD Review

Love means never having to say you're sorry... and buying this Ryan O'Neal/Ali McGraw weepy on yet another home theater format....

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level: BD Review

Paramount teases poor Trekkers with this Blu-ray hint at upcoming editions of The Next Generation....

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Fairy Tail - Part 3: BD Review

The anime adventure continues, but with less excitement than ever....

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One Piece - Collection Four: DVD Review

Our merry band of anime pirates stare down another round of fantastical adventure....

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Johnny English Reborn: BD Review

Rowan Atkinson's bumbling spy is back for more of the same (only this time with more Gillian Anderson! Yay!)....

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Fairy Tail - Part 4: BD Review

This installment of the anime series stages a heady in-fighting tournament of champions, but is it enough to keep the whole TV-on-BD set above water....?

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The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn: BD Review

Is the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson motion-capture adventure with Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell the rollicking epic it has the potential to be or a shoot and a miss....?

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Monty Python And The Holy Grail: BD Review

"On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."

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South Park - The Complete Fifteenth Season: BD Review

"My name is Sarah MacLachlan and I was famous for two months."

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Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - Season 2: BD Review

The second anime series based on the hit video game is heavy on stunning visuals and light on comprehensible drama....

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: BD Review

The Oscar-winning adaptation of the blockbuster Stieg Larsson novel is a must-have on Blu-ray....

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Chrome Shelled Regios: DVD Review

Welcome to the future, where monsters and mobile city-states traverse a post-apocalyptic wasteland....

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A Lonely Place to Die: BD Review

It's by no means a classic, but this horror/thriller is in a lot of ways a Scottish Deliverance....

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War Horse: BD Review

This high-def edition of the Spielberg war flick is technically marvelous, but did the movie deserve its Best Picture nomination....?

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Princess Jellyfish - The Complete Series: BD Review

Pretty, sassy, and often unbearably confusing, this anime tale of a jellyfish-obsessed young girl and her gaggle of ladyfriends is a strange, strange beast....

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Killer Nun: BD Review

Gather the kiddies 'round - it's time for a good old-fashioned Nunsploitation flick. Yay...!

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Haywire: BD Review

This spy/assassin actioner with MMA superstar Gina Carano is a star-studded, dingbat thrill in high-definition....

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One for the Money: BD Review

The Janet Evanovich franchise finally debuts on high-def, and thanks to Jennifer Heigl and company, it's dead on arrival...

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Into the Abyss: BD Review

Werner Herzog's latest documentary is a harrowing investigation of crime, punishment, and the shrapnel they both leave behind....

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Albert Nobbs: BD Review

Glenn Close and Janet McTeer definitely earn their Oscar nominee cred in this Irish melodrama....

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The Hitler Chronicles: DVD Review

Ooo boy! 5+ hours of Adolf Hitler documentaries? How exciting....

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Covert Affairs - Season Two: DVD Review

It falls into the category of 'Guilty Pleasure', but Covert Affairs' new TV-on-DVD edition is nevertheless totally fun....

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Castle in the Sky: BD Review

The fantastical Miyazaki masterwork gets a well-deserved high-def upgrade....

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The Secret World of Arietty: BD Review

The Secret World of Arietty in high-def isn't full-tilt Miyazaki, but it'll do....

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Whisper of the Heart: BD Review

Another Studio Ghibli masterwork gets a stunning high-definition upgrade....

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Let the Bullets Fly: BD Review

This hugely successful Chinese import starring Jiang Wen and Chow Yun-fat is one of the more enjoyably entertaining neo-westerns in recent memory....

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Shock Labyrinth: 3D BD Review

It's a hospital! It's a death maze! It's a hospital and a death maze....!

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Treasure Houses of Britain: DVD Review

Sure, these palaces are among the UK's grandest treasures, but how good are their home theater setups....?

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The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake: BD Review

This Huang Yi import is a rollicking, often mesmerizing surprise....

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Hell on Wheels - The Complete First Season: BD Review

This new revenge-fueled western makes for dumb, bloody fun....

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Rookie Blue - The Complete Second Season: BD Review

Turns out Canadian cop shows can be just as mediocre as American ones....

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Jeff, Who Lives at Home: BD Review

Jason Segel, Ed Helms, and Susan Sarandon go mumblecore in this Duplass Brothers comedy, and the results are dreadful....

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Ghost Rider - Spirit of Vengeance: BD Review

"Merry Christmas, you assholes!" is the kind of Nicolas Cage magic awaiting you on this brain-drain of a Blu-ray Disc....

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Episodes - The First Season: DVD Review

Matt LeBlanc is Episodes' guiding light, but starpower alone isn't enough to keep this boob-tube comedy above water....

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New Tricks - Season Seven: DVD Review

The New Tricks team is back for another round, and you're unlikely to find a more ass-kicking set of retirees....

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Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!: BD Review

The bloodiest, strangest spaghetti western of all time debuts in high-def....

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The FP: BD Review

Finally, all those hours spent playing Dance Dance Revolution are about to pay off....!

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Damages - The Complete Fourth Season: DVD Review

This latest TV-on-DVD set of Damages proves one thing: never trust John Goodman....

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Down by Law: BD Review

Jim Jarmusch heads to Criterion Blu-ray once again with this cult-adored jailbreak fable starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni....

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American Reunion: BD Review

The American Pie folks are back - and yes, this new installment delivers in terms of masturbation gags, embarrassment nudity, and topless chicks....

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Clue: BD Review

Before Battleship, there was this 80s comedy based on the board game of the same name....

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High Fidelity: BD Review

"I can't fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week, and they just started showing up every day. That was four years ago...."

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The Hunger Games: BD Review

Katniss and friends roar into high-def on a particularly killer Blu-ray edition....

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Eclipse Series 35 - Maidstone and Other Films by Norma Mailer: DVD Review

Norman Mailer proves to be adept at boxing, barking orders, and heavy petting with young Hollywood starlets on this new Eclipse box set....

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ATM: BD Review

Looking for a dumb-shit horror flick that's as dull as it is preposterous? Boy, do we have the movie for you....

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Dexter - The Sixth Season: BD Review

As a season-long release, Dexter: The Sixth Season is a swing and a miss, but that doesn't mean you won't quickly marathon through this TV-on-BD set....

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NCIS: Los Angeles - The Third Season: DVD Review

Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J are back, but as their seasoned adversary on this Third Season set will attest, there can be only one....

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Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt - The Complete Series: DVD Review

One can't resist sex, the other can't say no to chocolate - both are experts at kicking ass fallen-angel style....

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Alphas - Season One: DVD Review

The new David Strathairn SyFy series is heavy on weird characters with special skills, but light on any kind of fresh storytelling....

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