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 | | 7. Madea Goes To Jail new! | | | Starring: Derek Luke Keshia Knight Pulliam Director: Tyler Perry | | Format: DVD Release Date: 6/16/2009 |  | Madea Goes to Jail - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/5/2009 5:39 PM | |
For playwright and filmmaker Tyler Perry, the character of Mabel "Madea" Simmons has always been his entertainment trump card, his anarchic ace in the hole, so to speak. The loud-mouthed, gun-toting, pot-smoking grandma with a wealth of attitude and a penchant for pop culture cross-references has always been his audience window, his way for even the most jaded member of his revival like crowd to connect to his "Go with God" morality tales. Over the last few years, however, Perry (who plays the bossy battleaxe in full blown comic drag) has tried to wean his fan base off of Madea. She was absent from his last film (The Family that Preys) and had only a minor cameo in Meet the Browns. read the full review | |
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 | | 10. Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest | | | Starring: Johnny Depp Keira Knightley Director: Gore Verbinski | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/15/2008 | | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - DVD By: Matt Paprocki - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 1/13/2007 9:51 AM | This is how Hollywood should make all of their sequels. Given the immense success of the first film in 2003, the inevitable Pirates of the Caribbean sequel received an $80 million boost to its budget. The film definitely looks the part. Both immense in scale and fun, Dead Man’s Chest is easily on par with, if not better than, its predecessor.
Johnny Depp owns his character, a sly pirate named Jack Sparrow. Everything about his performance makes him a perfect centerpiece for the film. read the full review | |
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 | | 12. Street Fighter-Legend of Chun-Li (Rated & Unrated 2-Disc Edition) new! | | | Starring: Chris Klein Kristin Kreuk Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | | Format: DVD Release Date: 6/30/2009 | | Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - DVD Review By: Brian Chen - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/22/2009 10:44 PM | |
Sorry, folks -- the star of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is not the mouth-drippingly voluptuous lead actress Kristin Kreuk. It's actually supporting actor Chris Klein, who may very well be our next Keanu Reeves. Klein must have flash-kicked himself in the brain, because his acting is so outrageously horrid and emotionally vapid he inspires unsolicited laughter. In fact, if Klein had more airtime in the movie, I might have sat through the whole thing. That's right: I walked out (after an hour). And this is the only movie I've walked out of my entire life.
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 | | 14. Batman- The Dark Knight (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Heath Ledger Christian Bale Director: Christopher Nolan | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 12/9/2008 | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | The Dark Knight - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Matt Paprocki - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 12/1/2008 8:06 PM | | It’s hard to fathom a movie with more hype behind it than The Dark Knight. This is the point where the comic book movie has truly come into its own, surpassing the usual boundaries to become something more. It’s impossible to give full credit to anyone here, although names can certainly be tossed out as to who made this more special than it would have been without them. It’s not a perfect film by any stretch, but it’s a great thrill ride. read the full review | |
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 | | 15. Underworld:rise Of The Lycans | | | Starring: Michael Sheen Rhona Mitra Director: Patrick Tatopoulos | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/12/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/1/2009 5:39 PM | |
Upon first description, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans appears completely unnecessary, even for one of the Underworld movies, which, like the Resident Evil pictures, are well-practiced in the art of spinning inessential straw into inessential off-season box-office gold. Rise of the Lycans is a prequel, seeking to explain in greater detail the mythology-heavy plot turns discussed so endlessly in the very first Underworld movie: How and why vampires and werewolves came to so loathe each other. The reasons, it turns out, are not dissimilar to what I faintly recall as the central conflict from the first film: a vampire named Sonja (Rhona Mitra) is in love with a lycan called Lucian (Michael Sheen). read the full review | |
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 | | 19. Underworld-Evolution (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Kate Beckinsale Director: Len Wiseman | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/28/2007 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Underworld: Evolution - DVD Review By: Joel Meares - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/3/2009 5:39 AM | |
If current cinema is to be believed, everywhere we humans are not looking, vampires, werewolves, advanced machines, and other nightcrawlers are living in alternative societies. Underworld brought such a society to the fore, shining a torch (and some flattering designer light) on a leather-clad group of vampires embroiled in a feud with an ancient race of werewolves known as Lycans. In Russia just last year, Night Watch took us into the gloaming to witness similar shenanigans. Perhaps fearing that six months is too long between gothic, O-negative drinks, the makers of Underworld have offered us its unnecessary, unanticipated, and unexpectedly OK sequel, Underworld: Evolution. read the full review | |
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 | | 25. Quantum of Solace (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Daniel Craig Mathieu Amalric Director: Marc Forster | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 3/24/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Quantum of Solace - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Aaron Peck - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 3/29/2009 10:24 AM | | Quantum of Solace, the new Bond flick, is a disappointment plain and simple. It’s incoherent in story and style. Bond is not the wise-cracking, cocky, womanizing, egomaniac we all have grown to love. Instead he has been transformed into a dour, mindless, kicking and punching action hero. Solace is the first ever direct sequel in the Bond franchise. It starts about an hour after Casino Royale ended. Bond is out for revenge. He’s trying to find out who killed his beloved Vesper. Don’t remember who Vesper is? You’d better brush up on Royale before seeing this movie or nothing will make sense. read the full review | |
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 | | 30. Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Single Disc) | | | Starring: Anna Popplewell Ben Barnes Director: Andrew Adamson | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/2/2008 | | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/21/2008 4:31 PM | |
In Clerks II, uber-slacker Randal described the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a series of endless walks. Nothing but nonstop, pointless treks. One has to wonder what his reaction would be to the overwhelming ambulation in the two Chronicles of Narnia films. While The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe had origins and mythos to highlight, Disney's latest entry in the franchise, Prince Caspian, requires a more minimal setup. All returning director Andrew Adamson has to offer as a result is more shoe to footpath action, with the occasional CGI-sparked battle to break up the constant strolling. read the full review | |
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 | | 41. Superman Returns (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Brandon Routh Director: Bryan Singer | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/11/2008 | User Rating: 4 | | Superman Returns - 2-Disc Special Edition - DVD By: Dan Owen - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 12/9/2006 7:41 PM | | There's an emotional purity to Superman that no other comic-book property can match (the Jesus Christ allegory isn't an overstatement -- check out the finale), and fans of Superman's legacy will get additional thrills with the numerous in-jokes and references. Above all, Superman Returns swept me up with its performances, effects, engaging story and sense of nostalgia.
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