Father's Day

Blu Ray

  • Score
    49
    from 1 reviewers
  • The film's sharp humor targets cinephile in-jokes and goofy tangents.

    Father's Day
    2011
    99 min
    Not Rated
  • Video
    59
  • The delayed Father's Day release disappoints with excessively dark visuals plagued by poor shadow detail and frequent crush.

  • Audio
    44
  • The film's use of excellent music and sound effects, which could have been highlighted more, adds to the disappointment.

  • Extra
    54
  • Disc 2, the main DVD in standard definition, features a trailer, and deleted scenes including 'Artie and Mary' and 'The Kiss'.

  • Movie
    49
  • 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

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    Blu-ray.com review by Jeffrey Kauffman
    • Video
      80
    • 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....

    • Audio
      50
    • 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...

    • Extra
      70
    • 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)....

    • Movie
      60
    • 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,...

    • Total
      60
    • 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...