Robert DeNiro

Backdraft

January 13, 2011 // 0 Comments

Admired for it's well executed and technically accurate portrayal of real life firefighting situations, director Ron Howard's 1991 production of "Backdraft" is finally available on Blu-Ray Disc also. "Backdraft" initiates a [...]

Meet The Parents

November 30, 2010 // 0 Comments

Meet The Parents (2000) Universal Home Entertainment In the realm of film criticism, movies must sometimes be judged in the same way as just about anything else in life, that is, did it accomplish what it set out to do? For example, did the comedy make [...]

GoodFellas

May 5, 2006 // 0 Comments

Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" is a modern classic, no doubt. It is one of those films that everyone has seen and one that everyone should see. It is dark, disturbing, violent and at the same time intriguing, charming and full of style. [...]

Hide And Seek

July 8, 2005 // 0 Comments

With this latest onslaught of thriller and suspense films to hit DVD, all with similar pace and storylines, it’s easy to get them confused with one another. Though not groundbreaking, ’Hide and Seek’ manages to rise slightly above the pack, thanks [...]

Casino: 10th Anniversary Edition

June 14, 2005 // 0 Comments

’Casino’ is director Martin Scorsese’s telling of the rise and fall of mobster Sam ’Ace’ Rothstein played by Robert De Niro, a character based on real-life gangster Frank ’Lefty’ Rosenthal. The setting is 1973 Las Vegas, a time when the Mob [...]

Analyze That

May 5, 2003 // 0 Comments

The odd couple is back. Director/writer Harold Ramis is reuniting Paul Vitti and Dr. Sobel – or Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal, if that rings more of a bell. Continuing the hilarious story of "Analyze This," once again we are allowed to [...]

Jackie Brown

August 12, 2002 // 0 Comments

Quentin Tarantino made it from underdog to Hollywood-wunderkind faster than anyone else in recent memory. "Reservoir Dogs" and Pulp Fiction" were movies that gave critics and audiences plenty to talk about and plenty to like. Created with [...]

Showtime

August 2, 2002 // 0 Comments

Imagine, someone wrote a script for a ’Rush Hour’ sequel, but couldn’t sell it to New Line. Instead the script landed at Warner home Video who placed a different cast in the parts and went to production. That’s how ’Showtime’ feels to me in a [...]

The Score

December 4, 2001 // 0 Comments

Every once in a while a movie comes along that has apparently been overlooked by audiences in theaters and when you get to watch it, you want to tell the world about it, because it really is very good. "The Score" is such a movie. A superb [...]

The Godfather: DVD Collection

October 29, 2001 // 0 Comments

As DVD matures and finds more players in more home, the list of "must-have" titles continues to shrink. Just in the past few weeks, standards like "Snow White, " "Citizen Kane," and the first "Star Wars" (not the [...]
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