Father's Day
Blu Ray
The film's sharp humor targets cinephile in-jokes and goofy tangents.
The delayed Father's Day release disappoints with excessively dark visuals plagued by poor shadow detail and frequent crush.
The film's use of excellent music and sound effects, which could have been highlighted more, adds to the disappointment.
Disc 2, the main DVD in standard definition, features a trailer, and deleted scenes including 'Artie and Mary' and 'The Kiss'.
The film presents itself as an Astron-6 late-night TV show, complete with deliberate Grindhouse-style flaws such as shaky footage and scratches.
Director: Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy
Actors: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney
Plot: A murderer, a priest, and a delinquent try to bring down a father-killing madman.
Disc Release Date: 14 August 2012
all scores
- Video80
- Audio50
Is it intentional irony that the long delayed Father's Dayvery dark settings, and much of this outing suffers from very poor shadow detail and even outright crush on more than one occasion....
What makes this so disappointing with this film is that there's so much great music used as source cues, not to mention a glut of fantastic sound effects, that most certainly would have been amplified...
- Extra70
- Movie60
The first DVD (Disc 2) containing the main feature in standard definition also contains: Theatrical Trailer (SD; 2:28) Deleted Scenes, consisting of "Artie and Mary" (SD; 00:47) and "The Kiss" (SD; 00:49)....
It should be noted that the film is framed as a late night television outing on the station Astron-6 (the name of the troupe behind the film), and we get quasi-Grindhouse effects like wobbly video, scratches,...
- Total60
The saving grace here is the film's rather pointed sense of humor, one that takes aim at everything from film lovers' in-jokes to a number of just flat out goofy sidebars the film indulges in as it seeks...