Kris Deering

Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Due Date—Warner Bros.
Kris Deering  |  Feb 17, 2011
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Expectant first-time father Peter Highman looks forward to his new child's due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife's side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when an encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, many friendships and Peter's last nerve.
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The Last Unicorn—Lionsgate
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011
Video: 2.5/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 3.5/5
In this whimsical, animated film, a lone unicorn seeks out others like herself through a mystical land of talking cats and spellbinding magicians. In her search for other unicorns, the last unicorn encounters a cast of delightful characters as well as dangers she never imagined. Throughout the fantastic adventure, she learns of friendship, love, and most importantly, her true self.
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Thelma & Louise—MGM
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star as accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With a determined detective on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, their journey alternates between hilarious, high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey even as the law closes in.
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Memento—Lionsgate
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Guy Pearce stars as Leonard, a man with a bizarre disorder: the inability to form new memories. Ever since that fateful night when his wife was murdered, anyone Leonard has met, or anything he has done, simply vanishes from his mind. Who are his friends? Who are his enemies? What is the truth? The answers change from second to second as Leonard seeks vengeance for his wife's murder... and sinks into an abyss of uncertainty and danger.
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Get Low—Sony Pictures Classics
Kris Deering  |  Feb 13, 2011
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush. People say he's done all manner of unspeakable things - that he's killed in cold blood, that he's in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers - and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. It's not your usual funeral for the dead that Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a living funeral, in which anyone who ever heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson, to win over Felix's business.
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Paranormal Activity 2—Paramount
Kris Deering  |  Feb 08, 2011
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute horrifyingly real.
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You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger—Sony Pictures Classics
Kris Deering  |  Feb 08, 2011
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 0/5
One night, Alfie wakes up with a sudden wave of panic over thoughts of mortality. Abandoning Helena, his wife of forty years, Alfie sets out to relive the pleasures of his youth. Devastated, Helena tries to kill herself, and then, finding no consolation from medicine and therapy, seeks out the help of a fortune teller, Cristal. Before long, Helena finds the tranquility she seeks by surrendering all her thoughts and actions to Cristal's guidance. Helena's daughter Sally encourages her mother's pacifying visits to the charlatan fortune teller, as she is weary of dealing with her mother's trauma, and has marital problems of her own. Her novelist husband Roy is unable to hold a paying job and the couple lives off of Helena's support and Sally's earnings as an assistant to a prominent gallery owner, Greg Clemente. Years ago, Roy produced an acclaimed first novel, but his subsequent books haven't lived up to his initial promise. Roy's fears that he may be a flash in the pan make him hard to live with and they clash over Sally's desire to have a child.
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I Spit On Your Grave Unrated (2010)—Anchor Bay
Kris Deering  |  Feb 08, 2011
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.5/5
An unrated remake of the controversial 1978 cult horror film. A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon a group of local lowlifes subject Jennifer to a nightmare of degradation, rape and violence. Left for dead, she returns for vengeance. Trapping her male attackers one-by-one, she inflicts acts of physical torment upon them with a ferocity that surpasses her own ordeal. When the carnage clears, victim has become victor.
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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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Hoodwinked—Vivendi
Kris Deering  |  Feb 01, 2011
Video: 3/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
When the police arrive at Granny's cottage in the woods to answer a domestic disturbance call, it looks like just another open-and-shut case. But Red, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf and the Woodsman are not your usual suspects, as they have their own dark secrets, wily deceptions and conflicting accounts of the crime.
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