Kris Deering

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
National Treasure and National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets—Walt Disney Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 11, 2008
National Treasure: Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
National Treasure 2: Video: 5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 4.5/5
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Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 22, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.75/5
They didn't win a Nobel Prize, throw a record fastball or travel another acceptable path to fame. What fugitive lovers Mickey and Mallory did was kill people. Lots of people. The media took care of the rest.
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Natural Born Killers—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jun 23, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3/5
Oliver Stone's controversial take on society's obsession with violence and social decay makes a strong debut on Blu-ray. Warner has delivered this one as one of their coffee book editions. The film follows Mickey and Mallory Knox as they go from one end of the country to the other leaving bodies everywhere. But instead of terrorizing the country, they are creating a cult following. Stone took a different stance with this film and showcased how reality television and pop culture has taken something we all fear and turned it into a ratings game and popular culture.
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind—Walt Disney/Studio Ghibli
Kris Deering  |  Mar 14, 2011
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 3.5/5
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley Of The Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaa, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
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Network—Warner Bros.
Kris Deering  |  Feb 27, 2011
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 2/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports of cute puppies, movie premieres and fender benders as hard news: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." Sidney Lumet directs Paddy Chayefsky's satire about the things people do for love and ratings.
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Never Back Down—Summit (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 25, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 2.75/5
Jake is the new kid in school. When a beautiful girl befriends him, Jake thinks he's set. But instead, her fight-club boyfriend Ryan smacks Jake a bloody, black-eyed welcome. Jake then turns to a mixed martial arts (MMA) master, who teaches him how to fight... and how to walk away. But it becomes obvious that a brutal re-match is inevitable if Jake wants to stop Ryan and his bullying, once and for all.
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Never Let Me Go—Fox Searchlight
Kris Deering  |  Feb 02, 2011
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
Kathy, Tommy and Ruth live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.
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Never Say Never Again—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Mar 31, 2009
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3/5
Sean Connery is back for his final performance as super agent James Bond in this high-velocity action thriller. When two atomic warheads are hijacked by the evil SPECTRE organization, Agent 007 is hurled into an explosive, pulse-pounding race to save the world from nuclear terrorists.
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New York, I Love You—Vivendi (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 25, 2010
Movie: 4
Picture/Sound: 4/4
Extras: 2.5
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Next—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 22, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Based on a story by sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick, this is an interesting premise on future sight and what could be achieved with it. The story is interesting enough and I never got bored, but the production had its limitations. The special effects could have been a bit better, and at times they were almost embarrassingly bad. My wife even commented on how fake things looked. Aside from that though, this is a fun popcorn film.
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