DVD Review: Balls Of Fury

Balls Of Fury (2007)
Directed by Robert Ben Garant
Written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant
Starring Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, Thomas Lennon, Robert Patrick
Available Dec. 18, 2007

Childhood ping ping prodigy Randy Daytona, who suffered defeat at the 1988 Games, is now a miserable sod performing tricks at a matinee show in Reno. It is here that FBI agent Ernie Rodriguez offers Randy the chance of a lifetime -- to slip into an underground ping pong tournament run by the nefarious triad leader Feng to get evidence that will shut down his criminal organization. Randy agrees, and is soon put through a hellish training by blind ping pong master Wong and Wong's equally abusive niece, Maggie...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

DVD Review: Ratatouille

Ratatouille
Directed by Brad Bird
Starring (voices) Patton Oswalt, Brad Garrett, Brian Dennehy, Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, Peter O' Toole
Walt Disney Video
Rated G

To watch Ratatouille is not merely to love it. To watch it is actually almost closer to getting high off of it. It buzzes along at a fast pace on such a level of giddy invention and superior craftsmanship that it rubs off on you. Meticulous skill and an almost slavish will to entertain without pandering are not mutually exclusive, but seeing this movie you wonder why they aren’t in the same place at the same time more often. And this has left me on the underside of hyperbole, so I’ll do my best to restrain myself. I’ll just let it slip that I’d want to call Ratatouille one of the best films of the year, except that I have a little voice in the back of my head asking “Just THIS year?”...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!