Kris Deering

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Fall—Sony Pictures Classics (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 24, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Los Angeles, circa 1920‘s, a little immigrant girl finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into his tale.
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Transformers—Dreamworks Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 24, 2008
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4.5/5
When their epic struggle comes to Earth, all that stands between the Decepticons and ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky. Unaware that he is mankind's last chance for survival, Sam and Bumblebee, his robot disguised as a car, are in a heart-pounding race against an enemy unlike anything anyone has seen before.
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U-571—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 24, 2008
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
A U.S. Navy Captain and his crew are just beginning to enjoy 48 hours of leave when they receive word to immediately return to duty. On a top-secret assignment, they must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat. Once on board, they are to steal the Nazi's top-secret decoding device and sink the sub before the Germans catch on to what's really happening. Their mission is more dangerous and frightening than anything they could have ever imagined, but one which has the power to turn the tide of battle.
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Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas—Walt Disney Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 24, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.75/5
Extras: 4/5
Enter an extraordinary world filled with magic and wonder - where every holiday has its own special land... and imaginative, one-of-a-kind characters! "The Nightmare Before Christmas" tells the heartfelt tale of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, and all things that go bump in the night. Bored with the same old tricks and treats, he yearns for something more, and soon stumbles upon the glorious magic of Christmas Town! Jack decides to bring this joyful holiday back to Halloween Town. But as his dream to fill Santa's shoes unravels, it's up to Sally, the rag doll who loves him, to stitch things back together.
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Felon—Sony Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 24, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
A loving family man with a promising future, Wade Porter suddenly loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to spend the next three years inside a maximum security facility where the rules of society no longer apply. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murderer and subjected to brutal beatings orchestrated by the sadistic head prison guard, Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life and must become the toughest "Felon" of them all if he's to survive the block. For what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. And in state prison, only the strongest will survive.
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The Life Before Her Eyes—Magnolia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 24, 2008
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
"The Life Before Her Eyes" is an intense and visually evocative drama about the loss of youth, investigating how a single moment in time can define an entire life. Based on Laura Kasischke's visionary novel, the story hinges on a pivotal confrontation: two high school girls held captive by a gunman and forced to make the terrifying choice as to who will live and who will die. "The Life Before Her Eyes" explores the reverberations stemming from the collision of past and future, reality and dream. Life can end in an instant - yet the echoes of possible futures remain inescapable.
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Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds—Walt Disney (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 15, 2008
Video: 3.25/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3/5
The sold-out concert event that rocked the nation is bursting onto Disney Blu-ray with a 3-D concert experience so real it's like having a backstage pass! "Make Some Noise" and get ready for the year's most eye-popping, dance-in-your-seat music experience. For the first time ever, Miley performs as herself and Hannah in the same epic show!
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Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay—New Line(Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 15, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.75/5
Extras: 3.5/5
On their flight to Amsterdam Harold and Kumar are mistaken for terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay... but not for long. They bust out and go on a cross-country road trip to clear their names and win over their hotties! But first they'll have to outsmart the Feds outrun the Klan and enlist the help of a hallucinating Neil Patrick Harris. It's one wild ride with America's most wanted - and most wasted!
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Kiss of the Spider Woman—City Lights Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 15, 2008
Video: 2.75/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 3/5
This groundbreaking film (the first independent ever to receive the top four Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Hector Babenco), adapted for the screen by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Leonard Schrader from Manuel Puig's novel set in a non-specific Latin American country, takes a penetrating look at the role of sex and politics under an oppressive right-wing regime. The timeless story, more relevant today than ever, follows the complex relationship between two distinctly different men with opposite views about life - building with powerful emotional crescendo as they gradually come together in a stunningly transcendental conclusion.
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Shutter—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 15, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.25/5
A young photographer and his wife discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can never escape the past as a ghost continuously haunts them.
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