Film: The Little Mermaid (1989)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"I've never seen a human this close before. Oh - he's very handsome, isn't he?"
"I dunno, he looks kinda hairy and slobbery to me."

Review: This is one of my favorite Disney movies based on one of my favorite fables. The movie had a great mix of humor, great songs and excellent animation. This is the movie that started the second golden age of Disney animation. Sebastian the Crab was an excellent character.

"Just look at her! On legs! On human legs! My nerves are shot. This is a catastrophe! What would her father say? I'll tell you what her father'd say. He'd say he's gonna kill himself a crab, that's what her father'd say!"

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: License to Drive (1988)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"An innocent girl, a harmless drive. What could possibly go wrong?"

Review: This is a great 80s teen movie and a movie when Corey Haim and Corey Feldman were at their peak of popularity. The first half of the movie is the best but the second half holds up pretty well. One of my favorite scenes is the driving test with the coffee cup. This is Heather Grahams' first movie and boy is she hot.

"We had a college fund set aside for you! That's gone now! You had free room and board, two trusting parents and a social life. All gone! You had a TV, a stereo, a baseball, a tennis racket, a skateboard, a bicycle - All gone! You even had sunlight and a window in your room!"

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Liar Liar (1997)

DVD: Anamorphic


"You know what I am going to do about this?"
"What?"
"Nothing! Because if I take it to small claims court, it will just drain 8 hours out of my life and you probably won't show up and even if I got the judgment, you'd just stiff me anyway; so what I am going to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk, and then bend over and TAKE IT UP THE TAILPIPE!"

Review: This movie is one of Jim Carrey's funniest movies after Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber. While the movie can get a little sappy at times, it way than makes up for it by all the hilarious situations Jim's character gets into due to his inability to lie.

"Everyone's been so nice to me."
"Well thats cause you've got big jugs. I... I mean your boobs are huge. I mean, I want to squeeze them. I...I... Ma-Ma."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"Whoa, you got me quakin' in my boots, but I'm still gonna bring you down."
"My dear officer, you could not even give me a parking ticket!"

Review: This is one of the few movies where I like the sequel better than the original. This is a great cop-buddy movie and Joe Pesci is so great as the money launderer that they are protecting. The scene where Murtaugh is stuck on the toilet is one of my favorite scenes. The movie is also great because the villians are so good.

"They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru, okay? They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru! They know you're gonna be miles away before you find out you got fucked! They know you're not gonna turn around and go back, they don't care. So who gets fucked? Ol' Leo Getz!"

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: Let It Ride (1989)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"You've got great legs."
"Thanks. They go from my ass all the way to the floor."

Review: My favorite Richard Dreyfuss role ever. This is a hidden gem that not many people know about but I highly recommend it. Jennifer Tilly is at her hottest in the movie. This is a funny movie with a lot of great character actors who bounce off of Dreyfuss' character.

"The 4 horse! Nobody bets the 4 horse, Trotter. The 4 horse is a joke. They let little kiddies on the 4 horse to have their picture taken."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: Léon: The Professional (1994)

DVD: Anamorphic


"Leon, I think I'm falling in love with you. It's the first time for me, you know?"
"How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?"
"Cause I feel it."

Review: This a great movie and the director's cut makes it even better by expanding on the relationship between Mathilda and Leon. My favorite movie with Jean Reno is "The Big Blue" and this is the second. Natalie Portman is perfect in this role and she followed it up in "Beautiful Girls" with another great job.

"And stop saying "okay" all the time. Okay?"
"Okay."
"Good."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: A League of Their Own (1992)

DVD: Non-Anamorphic


"Hey cowgirls, see the grass? Don't eat it."

Review: A movie about a girl's baseball team, it seems like it would be so boring but this is a gem of a movie and actually one of the best baseball movies made. Jon Lovitz is a great comedic spark at the beginning of the movie and Tom Hanks is great as the alcholic manager with great lines. Geena Davis and Lori Petty give this movie it's heart as the two sisters who have a complicated relationship.

"Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying, there's no crying in baseball."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

DVD: Anamorphic


"When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever."

Review: This is not the best movie ever made but it is so beautifully shot and acted that it sticks with you. I think this will be considered the definitive film version of the Last of the Mohicans. I can't see it being remade again.

"You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you."

3 out of 4 Stars

Film: The Last Samurai (2003)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"He's rude."
"That's how it is here. A land of cheap traders."

Review: This a really good movie, it is entertaining and beautifully filmed. The ninja attack on the village is one of the highlights of the film. My only complaint is the last 10 minutes where it went overboard with the schmaltz. If it had ended on the battlefield this would be an almost perfect movie.

"Just tell me one thing, what is it about your own people you hate so much?"

"Every soldier has nightmares."
"Only one who is ashamed of what he has done."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. Coffee is for closers."

Review: With this cast of great actors you expect a great movie and it delivers. The flowing dialogue does a great job of capturing the brief highs and very low, lows of being a salesman.

"We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."

"What's your name?"
"Fuck you. That's my name. You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. THAT'S my name."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: A History of Violence (2005)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"I know that my husband is Tom Stall, that's what I know."
"Yeah? Why don't you ask 'Tom' about his older brother Ritchie, ask 'Tom' how he tried to rip my eye out with barbed wire, and ask him, Edie, how come he's so good at killing people."

Review: I think this is one of the best movies of 2005. It is a well done character-study mixed with good action sequences. Viggio and Maria were great as the husband and wife who's relationship is flipped upside down by revelations from the past. The only character that I thought was below average was the son who's actions seemed to belong to another movie.

"Any last words before I blow your brains out, you miserable prick?"
"I shoulda killed you back in Philly."
"Yeah, Joey, you should have."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: L.A. Story (1991)

DVD: Non-Anamorphic (also HDX on Vudu)


"Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment when love begins but we always know when it ends?"

Review: This is Steve Martin's last great movie in my opinion until he found some of his old magic briefly with "Bowfinger". The soundtrack with Enya was great and Sarah Jessica Parker who I am not normally a fan of was cute. The movie is a cross between slapstick and the surreal.

"Your... your breasts feel weird."
"Oh, that's 'cause they're real."

"Ordinarily, I don't like to be around interesting people because it means I have to be interesting too."
"Are you saying I'm interesting?"
"All I'm saying is that, when I'm around you, I find myself showing off, which is the idiot's version of being interesting."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Kingpin (1996)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9 - Double Sided


"Just because you're familiar with the missionary position doesn't make you a missionary."

Review: This is one of the three top-tier Farrelly Brothers movies along with "Dumb and Dumber" and "There's Something About Mary". There other movies are good but never reach the same heights as their first three. This movie has so many laugh out loud moments and Woody Harrelson is great as the down and out Munson. Bill Murray is steals the movie whenever he is on-screen as Ernie McCracken.

"He said handSOME, not handLESS."

"It all comes down to this roll. Roy Munson, a man-child, with a dream to topple bowling giant Ernie McCracken. If he strikes, he's the 1979 Odor-Eaters Champion. He's got one foot in the frying pan and one in the pressure cooker. Believe me, as a bowler, I know that right about now, your bladder feels like an overstuffed vacuum cleaner bag and your butt is kinda like an about-to-explode bratwurst."
"Hey. Do you mind? I wasn't talking when you were bowling."
"Was I talking out loud? Was I? Sorry. Good luck."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: The Karate Kid (1984)

DVD: Anamorphic


"Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything."
"Ever catch one?"
"Not yet."

Review: The original movie has not aged at all. It still is good today as when I watched it as a kid. Mr. Miyagi provides great humor to the story and the final crane kick in the tournament still brings chills. Parts 2 and 3 do not hold up so well. I remember laughing alot at cheesy parts several times watching them again.

"This is a karate dojo, not a knitting class. You don't come into my dojo, drop a challenge and leave, old man. Now you get your boy on the mat, or you and I will have a major problem."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: Jurassic Park (1993)

DVD: Anamorphic


"The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me."

Review: This is a thrill ride of a movie. The characters are all great and the special effects were so good that no suspension of belief was necessary. The rainy night scene in front of the T-Rex Paddock is movie magic and I don't think I have ever been blown away as much as I was watching that the first time.

"But, John. If the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"Have you thought much about luggage, Mr. Banks?"
"No."
"It's the central preoccupation of my life."

Review: This was a movie that I loved but got bad reviews when it first came out. I think over time a lot of people have recognized it's greatness and humor. This movie reminds me alot of "L.A. Story" with Steve Martin.

Favorite Scene: Buying the Luggage.

"Would you like to hear one of my poems?"
"Sure."
"Long ago, the delicate tangles of his hair, covered the emptiness of my hand... Would you like to hear it again?"
"Ok."

"I love you!"
"I love you, too! I've never been in love with anybody before, either! IT'S GREAT! I'M GLAD! But the timing stinks... I've gotta go."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Jerry Maguire (1996)

DVD: Anamorphic


"You are hanging on by a very thin thread and I DIG that about you!"

Review: This movie gets better every time I see it. Tom Cruise should have won an Oscar for this performance

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna do what you all think I'm gonna do, which is, you know, FLIP OUT!"

"That's how you become great, man. Hang your balls out there!"

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"Yo baby, you ever had your asshole licked by a fat man in an overcoat?"

Review: This is the flat-out funniest Kevin Smith movie.

[Singing]"Fuck, fuck, fuck, / Mother, mother fuck, / Mother, mother fuck, fuck / Mother fuck, mother fuck, / Noich noich noich, / 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, / Noich, noich noich / Smokin' weed, smokin' wizz, / Doin' coke, drinkin' beers, / Drinkin' beers, beers, beers, / Rollin' fattys, smokin' blunts, / Who smokes the blunts? / We smoke the blunts. / Rollin' blunts and smokin'..."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: Jaws (1975)

DVD: Anamorphic


"Out there is a Perfect Engine, an Eating Machine that is a miracle of evolution - it swims and eats and makes little baby sharks, that's all."

Review: It took me forever to see this movie, I think I saw all the Jaws sequels before seeing the original so I was kinda jaded when I finally saw the first one. It is on my second viewing that I began to appreciate it as more than a horror film. The movie builds very slowly but it just make the second half of the movie out on the boat all the more powerful. The Chum scene and the USS Indianapolis speech are movie magic.

"You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again...... So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Jackie Brown (1997)

Blu Ray


"Half a million dollars will always be missed."

"Now that my friend, is a clear-cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me."

Review: I would rank this as Tarantino's second best movie after Pulp Fiction. It has a slow pace, but it is so well done with a great sound track. The movie gets better every time I see it which is a sign of a great movie.

"AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes."

4 out of 4 Stars

Film: Interview with the Vampire (1994)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"Lestat killed two, sometimes three a night. A fresh young girl, that was his favorite for the first of the evening. For seconds, he preferred a gilded beautiful youth. But the snob in him loved to hunt in society, and the blood of the aristocrat thrilled him best of all."

Review: Like any movie based on a book I have read, I go into it with aprehension. But this movie is helped by reading the book first though because it helps you understand the movie characters unexplained changes of mood. The movie is very amospheric and draws you into this world of vampires.

"Oh Louis, Louis. Still whining Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries."

3 out of 4 Stars

Film: An Innocent Man (1989)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"You ain't got to stand tall in here... but you got to stand up!"

Review: This movie is probably one of the biggest fears of a law-abiding citizen. Going to jail for a crime you didn't commit. Tom Selleck is great in this role as an innocent man who has to try and survive in prison. Very well made.

"Fist fights are for free men. You gotta get a piece and make a move."
"What are you talking about?"
"Doin' him."
"You're telling me I should kill him?"
"No, I want you to marry his motherfucking sister! You better get with the program, slick."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Innerspace (1987)

DVD: Anamorphic


"Well, Jack, good news. I think we can rule out demonic posession among your ailments."
"But, the little voice from inside was talking to me."
"See, that's just it. Demons talk THROUGH you - not TO you."

Review: This is a fun science-fiction comedy. Dennis Quaid is great as the test-pilot who is shrunk down in a science experiment and accidently injected into the wrong man. Meg Ryan is at the peak of her cuteness in this movie as she helps Martin Short's character locate a missing computer chip to rescue her ex-boyfriend.

"Hey! What are you doing?"
"Just-just quiet for a minute! Shush! I-I need to think."
"EXCUSE ME, Jack! You heard the man! My oxygen's running out! Look, if you don't help me, you're going to end up with this microscopic pod floating around your insides with this teeny-tiny human skeleton at the helm."

3 out of 4 Stars

Film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"Nazis. I hate these guys."

Review: I think that this is the second best Indiana Jones movie, and Sean Connery is excellent as Indiana Jones' father. It is fun watching the normally confidant Indiana act all flustered around his father and this adds a unique dynamic to his adventures. Plus the return of the Nazis.

Favorite Scene: The tank chase

"Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek?"

"... Junior."
"I like "Indiana."
"We named the DOG Indiana."
"The dog? You are named after the dog?"
"I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog."

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

Film: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"You're gonna get killed chasing after your damn fortune and glory!"
"Maybe. But not today."

Review: This movie loses some of the realism of the first movie and the excellent foils of the Nazis but it is still a whip-crack adventure that never lets up.

Favorite Scene: Indy and Short Round trapped in the room with descending spikes. Scary but humorous!

"Wear your jewels to bed Princess?"
"Yeah... and nothing else. Shock you?"
"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist."

"Ah! Dessert... .Chilled Monkey-Brains!"

3 1/2 out of 4 Stars