Brooklyn Blu-ray Review

     Actors: Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Hugh Gormley

Director: John Crowley

Language: English (DTS 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)

Subtitles: English, Spanish

Dubbed: Spanish

Region: Region A/1

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Number of discs: 1

Rated: PG-13                                 

Studio: 20TH CENTURY FOX

Release Date: March 15, 2016

Run Time: 105 minutes

 

        I love films in the romance genre, though it often takes a willingness to forgive the predictable contrivances of the genre. Often the goal only appears to be satiating the audience’s desired outcome, which leads to cheesy and unbelievable results involving beautiful actors, manipulated emotions through sentimental soundtracks. Rarely is there a romance film containing characters resembling real people, with actual choices to make and difficult outcomes because of these choices. Brooklyn is one of these rare films, demanding more from its audience while also paying off with far more intelligent rewards due to the excellence in filmmaking. In other words, Brooklyn doesn’t sacrifice logic and character development for the sake of its romantic moments, and this makes them feel earned.

 

Victor Frankenstein Blu-ray Review

     Actors: James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe

Directors: Paul McGuigan

Language: English (DTS 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Dubbed: French, Spanish

Region: Region A/1

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Number of discs: 1

Rated: PG-13                                 

Studio: 20TH CENTURY FOX

Release Date: March 8, 2016

Run Time: 110 minutes

 

        This re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel from Twentieth Century Fox is not a complete waste of time, but it is a bad enough that I am sure the failure has Universal Studios concerned. The iconic horror studio has long been planning a “Monsters Universe” franchise to mimic the success the comic book universes, but the last thing that they want is audience’s to think of unsuccessful attempts such as this. Fortunately, The Mummy is the first endeavor in the open-world of Universal horror, and hopefully audiences will have time to forget this film before they re-imagine Frankenstein one more time.