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Jonas Brothers - The 3D Concert Experience (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Jul 10, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/jonas.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Kevin, Joe, and Nick invite you inside their personal world for an all-inclusive look at the band with a 3D perspective. Follow the boys through a tour of New York radio stations as throngs of teenage girls burst into tears at the site of the budding rock stars, and get up-close and personal at one of their concerts from the safety of your own home.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Journey to the Center of the Earth
David Vaughn  |  Nov 05, 2008

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
David Vaughn  |  Jul 08, 2018
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A group of kids discover an old video game console in the basement of their school with an unknown game called Jumanji. After choosing their avatars, the foursome is transported into the game’s jungle setting and assume their roles. They soon discover that not only have they taken on the look of the characters, but have inherited their strengths and weaknesses. To survive the game and get back home, all must work together to pass the obstacles placed in front of them, but the stakes are higher than they could have ever imagined.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Juno (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Apr 15, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/415juno.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Juno (Ellen Page) is a confident and candid teenage girl facing an unplanned pregnancy. Instead of taking the expedient way out with an abortion, she sets out to find the perfect parents to adopt her baby. With the support of her family and friends, she struggles with the physical changes that her body undergoes as well as the challenges of the social stereotypes associated with teenage pregnancy.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Jupiter Ascending
David Vaughn  |  Sep 02, 2015
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Born under the stars crossing the Atlantic while her mother immigrated to the United States, Jupiter Jones was told she was destined for great things. Unfortunately, it looked like her destiny was to clean toilets as a poor immigrant teenager in Chicago until Caine, a genetically engineered alien, arrives on Earth to save Jupiter from a band of Keepers (alien hit men). It turns out that Jupiter’s genetic markings label her as intergalactic royalty—she’s the reincarnation of the matriarch of the House Abrasax, who was murdered and somehow reborn on Earth. This upsets the balance of intergalactic politics, and Jupiter’s now in mortal danger.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy
David Vaughn  |  Oct 26, 2011
On a remote tropical island, an amazing living theme park becomes a game of survival for humans foolhardy enough to set foot on it. Meticulously recreated dinosaurs spring to astonishing life as a multimillionaire (Richard Attenborough) bankrolls an effort to use advanced DNA technology to bring dinosaurs back to life. When an employee shuts down the security system for personal monetary gain all hell breaks loose when the dinosaurs escape forcing the visitors to play a game of cat and mouse with the deadly prehistoric creatures.

Throughout movie history there are certain films that change the way movies are made and Jurassic Park certainly qualifies due to its cutting-edge use of CGI effects. Even to this day, the dinosaurs depicted in the film look so lifelike it's kind of creepy. When it hit theaters in 1993, it blew audiences away and became an instant classic.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Just Go With It (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Jun 10, 2011
After telling his new girlfriend that he's married as a means of avoiding real commitment, a plastic surgeon (Adam Sandler) must recruit a fake family to prove his honesty. His loyal assistant (Jennifer Aniston) agrees to play the soon to be ex-wife in order to score a free trip to Hawaii, but things don't go according to the plan when the two discover there's more to their friendship than meets the eye.

After Friends, many people wondered which of the ensemble cast would be the most successful and Aniston has been the most visible with movie projects. Here she plays the same character we've seen hundreds of times before in the romantic comedy genre as the loyal friend who discovers she's fallen in love and must overcome long odds in order to fulfill her dreams. Yawn!

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Streaming Device Reviews
Kaleidescape Simplifies Disc-to-Digital Conversion
David Vaughn  |  Apr 25, 2023
For eight months, I've had a Kaleidescape Strato-C and 48TB Terra server in my system and the user experience has been outstanding. At the time my initial review posted many readers argued that the system offered poor value compared to ripping discs onto local storage solutions and playing them through an Nvidia Shield or similar front-end device.
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Kaleidescape vs. Streaming – Avatar: The Way of Water
David Vaughn  |  Apr 11, 2023

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James Cameron’s epic sci-fi film Avatar changed the landscape of movie-making when it debuted in 2010. Fans of the celebrated director flocked to theaters, ultimately producing box office receipts that topped $2.9 billion worldwide and making it the top grossing film of all-time. Now, 13 years later, Avatar: The Way of Water is enjoying the same mega-blockbuster success, having grossed over $2.3 billion since the sequel was released to theaters in December, making it the third highest grossing film in history behind 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, which raked in $2.8 billion.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Kill Bill Vlolume 1 & 2
David Vaughn  |  Sep 25, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/kbvol1.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Uma Thurman is The Bride ready for her big day at the altar. But her boss Bill (David Carradine) has other plans, and she finds herself left for dead with a bullet in her head. When she comes out of a four-year coma, she has vengeance on her mind and takes on Bill's deadly squad of international assassins.

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