Into the Blu

I love vampire movies. I remember watching Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee with my father on late night Saturdays when I was a kid. Since those days vampires have evolved. Ann Rice certainly deserves a lot of credit for breathing new life into the undead. Her gothic depictions of the creatures in her Vampire Chronicles stories added a wealth of new mythology and atmosphere to the age old monsters. Underworld would bring us even more vampire lore and, of course, the most attractive vampire to date in Selene. Continue Reading

I’ve never understood book clubs. Of course, I’ve never been intimately involved in one. I prefer instead to let my brain have its own debate on whether or not a certain event in a novel was a metaphor or anything more than meets the eye. However, Jane Austen is a horse of another color. A book club focused on Austen might actually be interesting. But this one wasn’t.

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I’m not sure where the mass-disappointment came from regarding the third installment of this hugely successful trilogy. The action scenes where incredible, the dialogue makes this movie the funniest of three, the story was non-stop and the characters were developed well considering how many they introduced. Many people found a problem that there were two villains. How is that bad? More bad guys, means more action. Continue Reading

Spider-man hits Blu-ray as part of the Blu-ray exclusive Spider-man Trilogy, and is not yet available for individual purchase. Sony has really pumped up this release, hoping it will help elevate Blu-ray to a level that the HD DVD camp cannot reach. While the verdict is still out on how this release will impact the format war, the verdict is in on the quality of this Spider-man release… Continue Reading