Cloud Atlas, as a book, was a transcendent experience that weaved together multiple stories over multiple timelines. In the end they all collided into a beautifully woven web of love that conquers all, and finding oneself when one doesn't know they were searching. It's a lot of complication with a definite ending. So how do you take a book like this and translate it to film? You do it carefully.

Reach out and shift into high-def high gear!  From Paramount comes the Blu-ray release of an action adaptation from a novel in Lee Child's book series based on the title character written/directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike.  Cruise shines in the fightin'/shootin'/drivin' parts of the film, but the "mystery" portion of the program does eventually run a bit dry.

Farewell, good show.

When a team or otherwise group of people come together and all are at their best, something special's bound to happen. For Star Trek The Next Generation (TNG), most consider their third season their finest, the point when cast and crew all hit their strides. That complete season is now available in stellar form from CBS/Paramount.

With so many musicals based in the early 1900s, you would think those times would be happier than they were.

2011's "Wu Xia" comes to the States as "Dragon," available now on Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay.

Interesting art and film, but is it good? Come find out.

Bears or ice? You must choose.

Victor Hugo’s epic tale of tragedy and hope has finally arrived on Blu-ray and DVD. Has the revolutionary musical story held up as well for home entertainment as it has for over a century on paper and in the performing arts?

Acorn Media is set to release the complete first series of a intriguing new mystery series faithfully based on the novels by Kerry Greenwood.

If Splash, Cocoon and Gung Ho weren't enough to appease the dramatic and comical needs of Ron Howard, his decision to dip his directorial hat in the fantasy genre, courtesy of George Lucas, gave him another notch in his film belt in another genre.