Recent HD DVD reviews from DVD Authority

Beowulf (HD DVD)

3/14/2008

Editor's Note: This will most likely be our last HD DVD review

King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) rules over an impressive kingdom, but his iron fisted rule has been challenged by an unexpected force. In the middle of a royal banquet, a hideous beast known as Grendel (Crispin Glover) crashes the event and turns it into a bloodbath. Of co...

White Noise (HD-DVD)

3/7/2008

Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) seems to have it all, a loving wife, a dedicated son, and an incredible job, a life most would dream of. But his once perfect life is soon turned upside down when his wife Anna (Chandra West) is involved in a car accident and vanishes. While Jonathan holds out hope that Anna will turn up alive, that hope is crushed ...

Mobsters (HD DVD)

1/23/2008

Lucky Luciano (Christian Slater), Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco), Meyer Lansky (Patrick Dempsey), and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) have been friends since childhood, so they share a strong bond. The four friends venture into the criminal world even in their younger days, with small time capers and what not. As time passes, the group moves slowly...

White Noise 2 (HD DVD)

1/17/2008

Abe Dale (Nathan Fillion) was at a diner with his wife and son, when his world fell apart. A man walked into the diner, pulled out a gun, shot Abe's wife and son, then shot himself. Abe was devastated by not just the loss of his loved ones, but a sense of helplessness, as he couldn't do anything to save them. He also dwells on how random the event ...

Pan's Labyrinth (HD DVD)

1/16/2008

Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez) is a sadistic military man, who wishes to crush all opposition and do so in swift, brutal fashion. In his native Spain, the civil war has ended, but resistance remains intact in some areas. While the rebels aren't great in number, they have been effective at times with their strikes. As he has his troops search high and ...

Cat People (HD DVD)

1/15/2008

Irena (Nastassia Kinski) is a beautiful young woman on the brink, as she is a virgin, but longs for sexual contact. She ventures to New Orleans to meet her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell), who has hasn't been around for a while and in truth, Irena knows little about him or what to expect once she arrives. As it turns out, he is an unusual person an...

Timecop (HD DVD)

1/15/2008

Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a police officer, but his beat isn't on the street or behind a desk. He patrols the world of time travel, an area with infinite potential for corruption. When someone abuses the time travel field for financial or other personal gains, Walker and the other Time Enforcement Commission agents set things right agai...

The Kingdom (HD DVD)

1/3/2008

I'll be the first to admit that I don't really keep up with the news. I don't watch CNN and I don't even visit CNN.com or any other site like that. Mind you, I don't live in a cave but when it comes to matters of what's happening overseas or politics, my mind goes elsewhere. What's so intriguing about what's going on these days, though, isn't me...

Mr. Bean's Holiday (HD-DVD)

12/22/2007

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) has just had some great luck, as he has won a raffle for a vacation to the French Riveria, plus a camcorder to capture the entire experience. He is overjoyed of course, so he packs his trunk and readies himself for the beaches, with his camera in hand. As he travels by train toward his destination, he gets in some minor mi...

Arctic Tale (HD DVD)

12/20/2007

The arctic landscape is brutal, ice cold and barren for miles upon miles. But life survives there nonetheless, even though life is more harsh and intolerable here than almost anywhere else in the world. In Arctic Tale, we see a young polar bear cub named Nanu and a walrus pup named Seela, who face an uphill road for survival. The environment around...

Stardust (HD DVD)

12/19/2007

The adaptation of comic books to movies has become so mainstream in Hollywood that sometimes it's hard to tell what movie is a normal fantasy movie and what has roots in comic books. As it turns out "Stardust" is just the kind of movie that I'm referring to. I learned, after watching the very informative featurette, that author Neil Gaiman was th...

The Heartbreak Kid (HD DVD)

12/18/2007

When Ben Stiller's name is mentioned in the same sentence as the Farrelley Brothers, most will think of the surprise box-office success of "There's Something About Mary." The movie took audiences by storm and really made Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz into the Hollywood stars they are now. True, Stiller already had a decent career before this, but ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (HD DVD)

12/13/2007

I'll be the first to come right out and say it: I'm not that big of a Harry Potter fan. Well, wait a minute I wasn't that big of a Harry Potter fan. I'd never read any of the books and only seen one movie ("The Prisoner of Azkaban") but I couldn't tell you what happened in it if my life depended on it. For some reason 2007 seemed to be...

Pride and Prejudice (HD DVD)

12/12/2007

As the 18th century heads toward an end, so does the future of the Bennet bloodline, or so it seems. Mr. Bennet (Donald Sutherland) and his wife have five children, but all were daughters. This means since there is no male heir, the family estate will be left to a cousin upon the father's death. As the family's financial assets won't be available t...

Old School (HD DVD)

12/4/2007

Ah, college life. It's something I experienced for the better part of a decade and though I have no wish to repeat that time of my life, I have to admit that I do tend to miss it. You see, after being in the "real" world for some time, you tend to forget how good college can really be. Staying up all night, parties, girls and the occasional clas...

Return to House on Haunted Hill (HD DVD)

11/30/2007

The asylum run by Dr. Vannacut (Jeffrey Combs) has been shut down for decades, but the spirits within remain active, as some unfortunate visitors have discovered. Ariel Wolfe (Amanda Righetti) has just learned that her estranged sister became suicidal after her visit to the haunted asylum, overcome by the evil she experienced. Soon after she finds ...

Tremors (HD DVD)

11/29/2007

Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Basset (Fred Ward) might live in Perfection, Nevada, but to them, even Perfection isn't an ideal place to reside. The town is remote and isolated, which to Val and Earl makes life feel like one dead end after another, so they plan to leave once and for all. Just when they finally get the gumption to actually leave P...

Shrek the Third (HD DVD)

11/26/2007

It seems like only yesterday that I popped my new DVD of "Shrek" into my player and laughed hysterically. "Shrek", as we all know, was voiced by Mike Myers who must think he's Scottish (and he may be, for all I know) as his ogre seemed to be the animation equivalent of another Myers character �" "Fat Bastard". Regardless of the accent, the movie...

Hot Rod (HD DVD)

11/21/2007

I've always taken movies produced by Lorne Michaels with a grain of salt. I mean, let's face it, most of them are taken from five minute SNL skits and don't really have a whole lot of substance to them. There are the exceptions, of course, like "Wayne's World" and "Tommy Boy" but by and large it's more of a launching pad for some of the SNL cast ...

Ultimate Force (HD-DVD)

11/17/2007

Axon Ray (Mirko "Cro-Cop" Filipovic) was a war hero and decorated police officer, but now he works for a covert government agency. He was given the codename Sphinx, trained in high tech weapons and the elite martial arts disciplines, then sent out as part of the State Anti-Terrorist Organization. As a member of the Sanction Division of SATO, Sphinx...