Kenneth Brown, Author at DVD Review & High Definition

Vertical Limit

March 15, 2007 // 0 Comments

There are two types of film fans when it comes to critically-reviled, mountain climber epics that feature impossible midair stunts combined with high altitude helicopter action: those that adore Sylvester Stallone's 'Cliffhanger, ' and [...]

Rising Sun

March 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

"We may come from a fragmented MTV rap video culture, but they do not." Michael Crichton doesn't have a reliable track record when it comes to movies adapted from his best-selling novels. Like John Grisham, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and [...]

The Departed

March 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

Martin Scorsese's genius and talent explodes in this rip-bang, return-to-gangster form of a film that easily deserved the big dog Oscars heaped on its plate at the end of February. I remember my first viewings of 'Raging Bull, ' [...]

The Departed

March 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

Derailed

March 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

"I got all kinds of guilt…" Morality tales are often packed with warnings about the ways we should proceed through our lives. On one hand, they tap into our subconscious and remind us that consequences lurk in every corner of every decision we [...]

Flightplan

March 7, 2007 // 0 Comments

"People will think what I tell them to think. That's how authority works." 'Flightplan' brings Jodie Foster back to her dark roots in this thriller that sadly fails to fully engage its audience, though. To be reasonable, [...]

Saw II

March 6, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Some people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you… not anymore." The latest batch of torture-horror flicks, unintentionally popularized by the national debate on military interrogation methodology, seems to have found its poster [...]

Half Baked

March 5, 2007 // 0 Comments

"You have smoked yourself retarded…" Network and cable television have become an entertainment minefield. For every runaway success (sometimes of questionable quality), there's a brilliant show that never finds an audience and slips by [...]

Pearl Harbor

March 2, 2007 // 0 Comments

"I fear all we've done is to awake a sleeping giant." As I sat down to watch the Blu-ray release of 'Pearl Harbor, ' I found myself thinking a lot about the recent 'Flags of our Fathers' and its companion film, [...]

The Wicker Man

February 28, 2007 // 0 Comments

"Is this hers? How'd it get burnt? How'd it get BURNT?! How'd IT GET BURNT??!! HOW'D IT GET BURNT??!!??!!" Unbelievable. Did you enjoy that quote? That's what you're about to feel whipping across your skull when you [...]