The latest Blu-ray DVD reviews from FOX31 creative services director Erik Candiani
  • The Big Year (Blu-ray)
    THE BIG YEAR 20TH Century Fox / 2011 / 100 min. / PG THE BIG YEAR was a huge box office flop for Fox last year, grossing a mere $7million, despite the presence of three comedy heavyweights ? Steve Martin,...
  • Coming and Going (DVD)
    Echo Bridge Entertainment / 2011 / 93 mins / TV-14 THE FILM: What in the world could be worse than another one of Hollywood?s contrived, gimmicky and stupidly plotted romantic comedies? Try a contrived, gimmicky and stupidly plotted Made-For-Television romantic...
  • Urbanized (Blu-ray)
    New Video / 2011 / 85 mins / NR THE FILM: Director Gary Hustwit has taken his passion for design in all its various forms and guises and self financed a documentary film series about the subject. What started as...
  • Beavis and Butt-Head: Volume 4 (DVD)
    Paramount / 2011 / 264 min. / NR THE SERIES: After being off the air for over a decade, Mike Judge resurrected two of MTV?s most popular animated characters last year bring Beavis and Butt-head back to television screens everywhere....
  • Celebrity Sex Tape (DVD)
    The Asylum Home Entertainment / 2012 / 90 mins / UR THE FILM: There are two kinds of teen sex comedies: first there are the coming of age movies where we get our small group of male high school friends...
  • DOCTOR WHO: The Doctor, the Widow and The Wardrobe (Blu-ray)
    BBC / 2011 / 58 mins / NR THE EPISODE: The Christmas specials for DOCTOR WHO have become a tradition since the series re-launched in the mid 2000?s. With the exception of the first one (?The Christmas Invasion?) they have...
  • A Star is Born (Blu-ray)
    Kino Classics / 1937 / 111 mins / NR THE FILM: If you are one of the millions of people who fell in love with THE ARTIST this year, this is the movie you can thank for much of its...
  • .hack//Quantum OVA (Blu-ray)
    FUNimation Entertainment / 2011 / 75 mins / TV-14 THE SERIES: The world of .hack (pronounced ?dot-hack?) is a massive one that is primarily divided into two sections: a series of video games and a series of animes (there are...
  • DOCTOR WHO: The Caves of Androzani ? Special Edition (DVD)
    BBC / 1984 / 99 mins / NR THE EPISODE: The story on the latest ?Special Edition? double dip from the vast library of DOCTOR WHO DVDs is truly one for the ages. Voted by the shows legion of fans...
  • Dragon Age: Redemption (DVD)
    Flat Iron Film Company / 2011 / 90 mins / NR THE SERIES: Felicia Day is one talented and hard working geek girl. She is destined to go down in the history books as one of The pioneering and driving...