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Review By: Boo Allen Fourteen year-old Danny (Sebastian Gregory), unpopular in school and a misfit, finds himself being manipulated by slightly older, beautiful Suzy, (Tahyna Tozzi). In their neighborhood, a series of teen-aged girls go missing, while, nearby, a mysterious woman peaks out her window all day, making the two youngsters suspicious of her and [...]
Review By: Boo Allen This disturbing film benefits from a no-nonsense performance from U.N. T. graduate Thomas Hayden Church and an effective mix of menace and unsettling black humor. Church plays the title character, an anonymous janitor who returns to his home town when he receives a distraught letter from his high school girlfriend (Elizabeth [...]
Review By: Boo Allen After having directed Edward G. Robinson in the classic “Little Caesar” earlier in the same year, the great Mervyn LeRoy (“I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang”) helmed this hard-hitting drama using such advanced techniques for 1931 as split screens and slow, over-lapping images. Robinson stars as a cynical newspaper [...]
DVD Review: “Air Bud: World Pup—Special Edition” By: Boo Allen Buddy, the athletic pooch, expands his world and becomes a father and a soccer player. Buddy and Molly have a litter, but he also joins owner Josh to play in the state soccer championship. Rated G, 83 minutes. The supplements on this new edition include [...]
DVD Review: Which Way to the Front? By: Boo Allen Warner Archives (warnerarchive.com) continues releasing titles from the massive Warner Bros. Library, one featuring an American movie icon and one representing their most esoteric release so far. All Warner Archive titles are available to download digitally, or to buy, with the discs being made on [...]
DVD Review: Once More with Feeling By: Boo Allen This strained drama stars Chazz Palmenteri as Frank Gregorio, a psychiatrist whose pent-up frustration for forsaking a singing career translates itself into a love for karaoke that threatens his marriage and family. Almost by accident, he enters and wins several contests. Along the way, he meets [...]
DVD Review: Stolen By: Boo Allen Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”) stars as detective Tom Adkins, whose son went missing eight years earlier. When the body of a boy turns up from a 1958 missing-persons case, an investigation begins that may shed light on Adkins’ son. It also allows director Anders Anderson to flash back [...]
DVD : Mary and Max By: Boo Allen This beguiling stop-motion animated film is not kid fare, as it deals with depression, death, and Asperger’s syndrome. The reportedly true story involves eight year-old Mary (voiced by Bethany Whitmore and later by Toni Collette), living in Melbourne in the 1970s, who picks a name at random from [...]
DVD Review: The A-Team: The Complete Series—Limited Edition Boxed Set By: Boo Allen As the new “A-Team” arrives in theaters, Universal has packaged the entire TV series onto 25 discs, with each season coming under separate cover, all packaged into a convenient box in the shape of the A-Team’s traveling van. The popular series ran [...]
DVD Review: Nip/Tuck: the sixth and final season By: Boo Allen In this closing season, the McNamara/Troy practice struggles, but Dr. Hamoui (Mario Lopez) forges ahead, while Sean (Dylan Walsh) marries Teddy (Rose McGowan). Of course other dramas and melodramas also play out involving Matt (John Hensley) and Liz (Roma Mafia). Nineteen episodes, along with [...]
