Kate Beckinsale Archives - DVD Review & High Definition

Sony sends “Underworld” into the breach

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has added a silver bullet to its arsenal to lead 4K UHD to success by announcing the upcoming release of Underworld on the 4K ultra high definition format. In the Underworld, vampires are a secret clan of modern [...]

Stonehearst Asylum

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

“The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” is not one of the first short stories that comes to mind when thinking of Edgar Allan Poe’s body of work, and yet, it is such a rich and wickedly dark story that it is surprising it has not been [...]

Get haunted by the “Stonehearst Asylum” in December

November 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Millennium Entertainment has just unveiled plans to release the haunting gothic thriller Stonehearst Asylum on Blu-Ray Disc and DVD before Christmas. When young doctor Edward Newgate (Jim Sturgess) arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an [...]

Whiteout

January 14, 2010 // 0 Comments

When I first saw the trailer for "Whiteout" on TV some time ago, it invariably reminded me of John Carpenter's "The Thing," a film I hold in very high esteem. Naturally, I was intrigued, and curious to see the film. Now it is [...]

The Aviator

November 21, 2007 // 0 Comments

Martin Scorsese taking on the life of Howard Hughes is a massive undertaking, and one he approached with much care. After watching his wonderful film "The Aviator" again, I am just as awestruck as I was the first time. You see, Howard Hughes is [...]

Pearl Harbor

March 2, 2007 // 0 Comments

"I fear all we've done is to awake a sleeping giant." As I sat down to watch the Blu-ray release of 'Pearl Harbor, ' I found myself thinking a lot about the recent 'Flags of our Fathers' and its companion film, [...]

Underworld: Evolution

February 5, 2007 // 0 Comments

"We are oddities of nature… humanity has no place for people such as us." When word of the first "Underworld" came out in 2002, I went through the roof. For years, my friends and I had been talking about the need for a hard edged [...]

Van Helsing

May 25, 2006 // 0 Comments

I understand that opinions about Stephen Sommers' "Van Helsing" vary quite a bit and cover the entire spectrum. I enjoyed the film when I first saw it and even now upon repeated viewings I still get a kick out of it every time. It is a [...]

Van Helsing

October 11, 2004 // 0 Comments

Earlier this year "Van Helsing" was the film that started off the yearly summer blockbusters. Opening on May 7th, "Van Helsing" didn’t quite bring in the box office that was expected in the domestic market, but internationally it was [...]

Underworld

December 30, 2003 // 0 Comments

I am typically not a friend of contemporarized horror motives, meaning horror films that take classic horror icons and transplant them into our modern day world. Vampires, werewolves and such are gothic material and in my book have little place in a [...]