Kris Deering

Blu-ray Movie Reviews
True Romance—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 16, 2009
Video: 3/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3.75/5
Runaway lovers Clarence and Alabama play a dangerous game when they come to possess a suitcase of mob contraband. They head for Los Angeles, where they'll sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas.
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The Sky Crawlers—Sony Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 16, 2009
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds. With his only childhood memory consisting of intense flight training, the fearless teenage pilot Yuichi's dogfights coexist with his struggle to find his missing past. When his beautiful, young female commander Suito is reluctant to discuss the fate of the pilot that Yuichi is replacing - or the strangely perfect condition of that pilot's former aircraft - Yuichi's curiosity becomes heightened.
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Grease—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 16, 2009
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.75/5
John Travolta solidified his position as the most versatile and magnetic screen presence of the decade in this film version of the smash hit play "Grease." Recording star Olivia Newton-John made her American film debut as Sandy, Travolta's naive love interest. The impressive supporting cast reads like a "who's who" in this quintessential musical about the fabulous '50s.
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Powder Blue—Image Entertainment (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 16, 2009
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3/5
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost his will to live, a terminally ill ex-con and a pathologically shy mortician. With Kris Kristofferson, Lisa Kudrow and Patrick Swayze in unforgettable supporting roles, this film movingly chronicles the imperfect lives of people teetering on the edge of despair and the miracles that bring them back.
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A Bug’s Life—Walt Disney/Pixar (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 16, 2009
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4/5
Embark on an incredible journey with one little ant as he searches for a brave band of warriors to help him battle the bullying grasshoppers who threaten his home. When he stumbles on a bumbling troupe of circus bugs instead, their only hope for victory is the bond of friendship and the awesome power of imagination.
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Notorious—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 16, 2009
Video: 4.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, "Notorious" follows the young rapper from the tough streets of Brooklyn to the heights of superstardom as he juggles the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage and a music career. Amid chaos and controversy, Biggie's remarkable talent and fierce determination help to solidify his legacy as one of hip-hop's greatest MCs.
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Incendiary—Image Entertainment (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 1.5/5
Williams delivers a riveting and heart-felt performance as a young wife and mother who suffers a devastating loss in the attack...which occurs while she's meeting her secret lover. Wracked with guilt and trying to piece her shattered life back together, she becomes embroiled in the police investigation of the attack - and discovers that the authorities will do anything to cover up the terrifying truth behind it.
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The Grudge—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as an American nurse who has come to work in Tokyo. Following a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths, she encounters the vengeful supernatural spirit that possesses its victims, claims their souls, and then passes its curse to another person in a spreading chain of horror. Now, she must find a way to break this supernatural spell or become the next victim of an ancient evil that never dies, but forever lives to kill.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3/5
"Bueller... Bueller...?" Sorry, not here! Instead, high-schooler Ferris Bueller, his girlfriend Sloane, and his best bud Cameron are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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American History X—New Line Cinema (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 03, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
Derek Vinyard is dangerous, a coiled fury of hate who leads a neo-Nazi gang. But time and events start to change him. He reassesses his ways while doing time for manslaughter and emerges from prison eager to keep his younger brother from falling victim to the thug cycle of violence and payback. It may be too late. Weaving in and out of events past and present in Derek's life, "American History X" is revealing in its look at white-supremacist gangs and impassioned in its message that hatred and bigotry can be unlearned.
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