Recent DVD Reviews

From a distance, the trailers and marketing materials announcing Dominic Sena's Season of the Witch indeed looked promising and perhaps beyond mildly entertaining - but things just seemed out of place

This is a review of the Mission Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol Blu-ray disc which goes into details of the plot and audio/video quality.

This Blu-ray review discusses plot, audio and video quality and extras of the Ben Affleck movie "The Town". If you like good Boston Thriller, check it out.

HBO Films and the makers of Band of Brothers have saved their best effort for the war in The Pacific. Their ten-part presentation, made with an estimated $150 million budget and has won 8 Emmy Awards.

Comic fans rejoice as Iron Man 2 delivers in both plot and the A/V experience. The DTS HD 5.1 track is among the best we've heard from a Blu-ray disc, especially in the LFE department. Buy this one!

Inglorious Basterds is entertaining in select areas and moments, but it just didn't deliver the tactile punch I was expecting. This is a rental at best, but not something to add to your collection.

Cop Out on Blu-ray was a rather bizarre movie that lacked direction and purpose. The characters didn't gel well most of the time but its a rental if you have nothing else to chose from.

This Clash of the Titans remake on Blu-ray delivers excellent sound and video and is entertaining but perhaps better as a rental than a purchase.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is directed by Ang Lee and filled with gorgeous outdoor sets and wildly varying Chinese terrain. Within lays a mythic story torn from the pages of a fairy tale.

I came out of watching Brooklyn’s Finest on Blu-ray with just disappointment. The Audio and video quality didn't wow me and the experience wasn't memorable. Rent, don't buy this movie.

Passengers on Blu-ray is set to be released on May 12, but we'd be very surprised to see copies of this relatively unknown film rushing off the shelves. The hype around Passengers was minimal at …

“Thanks to epic songs, fantastical lyrics and extravagant drum solos, [Rush] rocks on through the 21st century…the scope of [their] achievements is undeniable…” –Rolling Stone Surely …

Into the Wild is among the last round of Paramount HD DVD releases. The Golden Globe winning movie tells the story of a young man who tried to escape civilization. It turns out to be one of the great …

Academy Award Nominee Viggo Mortensen teams up for second time with director David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises a hard hitting crime thriller. This HD DVD review contains no spoilers! I highly …

Once upon a time there were plastic Japanese toys that changed from cars into robots. Now we have huge blockbuster movies that change our childhood toys into reality! Ok, maybe not reality, but the …

I nabbed the We Were Soldiers HD DVD early on since it was a pairing of Randall Wallace and Mel Gibson. That's as good as calling it Braveheart II as far as I'm concerned. It turns out the HD DVD …

If ever a movie was created to tap into the depths of just how far a DLP or LCD projector can go with regard to black levels you would think it was Batman Begins. Full of scene after scene of dark, …

Miami Vice surprised me by being a "straight shooter" in the midst of a series of campy remakes that poked fun at their counterparts. As far as the technological side of the DVD, this is by far the …

The Departed is a film that captured our attention for several reasons. First off, as an Academy Award winner it stood out for its apparent merit as a film. Secondly, the number of A-list actors in …

There are plenty of places reviewing HD-DVDs* these days, so why should Audioholics even bother? Well, we cruised around the web and the usual sources and found a distinct lack of technical …

Are you ready for the best Yes concert DVD to ever hit the market? Folks, I have them all; I own Yessongs, Live in Philadelphia (1979), Live From the House of Blues, Anderson - Bruford - Wakeman - …

For the "One More Car One More Rider" Live on tour 2001, Eric Clapton backed himself up with some of the finest Jazz musicians in the industry. For starters is the amazing Steve Gadd on drums. You …

Steely Dan is one of my all time, favorite bands. Their music offers tremendous diversity, style and talent that's found in few bands today. Furthermore, their music has endured the test of time and …

Great sound performance from such an incredibly great movie. The opening scene against the Germanic Barbarians is enough to give this movie a 5-thumber. IT IS AWESOME…nuff said.

Solid sounds stemming from many high-performance vehicles really impressed me about this film. Since this was a movie of the action genre, it was "constant". It was certainly better than the original …

This is the thrill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a …