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New DVD Releases - November 18, 2008 The new DVD releases include Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Tropic Thunder and WALL-E.... DVD Review/Preview: Mister Lonely Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe in Paris and goes with her to a commune in the Scottish Highlands where they live with Charlie Chaplin, Abe Lincoln, Sammy ... DVD Pick: Rear Window -- Special Edition (Universal Legacy Series) Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window (1954) is a suspenseful murder mystery, but it's also a humorous rumination on... Top 7 Military-Themed Movies I feel that movies about military life can be among the most dramatic of all films and can reveal much about the human condition as it is framed by politics... New DVD Releases - November 11, 2008 The new DVD releases include Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and This Christmas. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on... Top 10 Kurosawa Films Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) made about 30 movies over a period of 50 years, and he was a major influence on the Spielberg-Coppola-Lucas-Scorsese generation of filmmakers. Read more ... DVD Pick: Hellboy II: The Golden Army (3-Disc Special Edition) In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, director Guillermo del Toro has created an enjoyable fantasy film that has spectacular visuals, contains energetic action sequences and is at times... New DVD Releases - November 4, 2008 The new DVD releases include Get Smart, Transsiberian and Kung Fu Panda. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD. More About New... Top 10 Hitchcock Movies Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favorite directors, and whenever I'm in the mood for a stylish mix of suspense, terror, and perhaps a delicious dash of romance, his films... DVD Pick: Vertigo — Special Edition (Universal Legacy Series) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo is a haunting, unsettling, twisted love story that involves deception, murder and two accidental deaths. The movie features exceptional performances by... |
A Christmas Tale Starring: Catherine Deneuve Review: Holiday films in the hands of Hollywood make me puke. Mom is usually expiring from something terminal while the family dresses the Christmas tree with brave smiles. This French knockout, tough-minded and all the more affecting for it, turned my head around. It hits hard — even the laughs are killers. I should say that Mom (Catherine Deneuve, still an actress and beauty to die for) is slipping away from liver cancer. So what makes this one magic? Start with director Arnaud Desplechin, who co-wrote the deft script with Emmanuel Bourdieu. Desplechin (Kings and Queen, How I Got Into an Argument) is a world-class filmmaker, not some studio hack. He can maintain a light touch even in the face of tragedy. He can layer a film so that it's always springing surprises. He can reference... Rating: 3.5 Stars Quantum of Solace Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Mathieu Amalric, Ju... Review: So shoot me. I left the action rush of this follow-up to the terrific 2006 Casino Royale feeling bummed out by James Bond. Well, not by the Bond of Daniel Craig — he's still one nasty-ass dude, with the kind of rough-edged style that the 007 franchise hasn't seen since the glory days of Sean Connery. But the character fun seems to have gone out the window in Quantum of Solace, a fancy-shmancy title (the only thing borrowed from Ian Fleming's short story) for a movie that pours crude oil all over the subtle pleasures and sexy beats that came before. The new movie picks up a few minutes after the last one. Big car chase (all together now: eww!) as Bond, barely recovered from the death of his lady love Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), burns rubber all over Italy with the wiggling body of... Rating: 2.5 Stars Synecdoche, New York Starring: Review: Does everything work in this mind-bender from Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? No way. Synecdoche, New York is exhilarating and exasperating in equal doses. But Kaufman, making his directing debut, is focused on something you don't find at multiplexes overrun with chihuahuas and violent escapism: That would be a life of the mind. Kaufman wants to prove that intellectual ambition isn't dead at the movies. Godspeed. Philip Seymour Hoffman creates a mesmerizing portrait of the artist as a young, old and middle-aged man. He plays Caden Cotard, a stage director struggling on the fringes in Schenectady, New York. Ailments attack his body in ways that would appall Dennis Potter. His shrink (Hope Davis) despairs of... Rating: 2.5 Stars Zack and Miri Make a Porno Starring: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Traci Lords, Jason Mewes, Jennifer S... Review: If there is such a thing as a stroke flick for your funnybone, then Zack and Miri is it. Writer-director Kevin Smith is back on comedy terra firma, after Jersey Girl drowned in goo and Clerks II defined backsliding. For those who wonder what happened to the Smith of the first Clerks and Chasing Amy, here's your answer. Seth Rogen, on loan from the Judd Apatow hit factory, is Zack, the scruffy chubmeister slacking his life away as a barista at Bean-N-Gone in a corner of Pittsburgh. Zack shares a funky dump of an apartment with his best friend, Miri (Elizabeth Banks trying futilely not to look like a blond goddess). These platonic BFFs don't have sex, except for money. Let me explain: Zack and Miri can't pay the rent. At their high school reunion, Miri runs into her football-hero crush,... Rating: 3 Stars Soul Men Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Jennifer Coolidge, Sean Hayes, Ken... Review: There's a shining moment in this uneven spin on Grumpy Old Men when Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson, playing feuding backup singers on an R&B comeback tour, stop in the desert to change a flat tire. Instead, they break into an impromptu version of the soul classic "I'm Your Puppet," riffing off each other with waves of affection that flow right off the screen. Mac died shortly after wrapping the movie, as did Isaac Hayes, who does a cameo as himself. Soul Men is a chance to salute these masters of mirth and music. Take it. Rating: 2.5 Stars Role Models Starring: Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jane Ly... Review: Sometimes a shamelessly stoopid, proudly profane R-rated comedy is all you want out of life. Role Models more than fills the bill. It's killer funny. Cheers to Paul Rudd — he should be a star by now — who takes just the right wry comic tone as Danny, an L.A. misanthrope flushing his life down the shitter. Danny and his sex-crazed partner, Wheeler (Seann William Scott, the immortal Stifler), earn cash by selling Minotaur energy drinks. Wheeler wears the hairy costume. Danny drives the monster truck, until self-loathing prods him to use the vehicle as a WMD. The result is a jail sentence that Danny's lawyer love (the underused Elizabeth Banks) gets reduced to 150 hours of community service, but not before dumping him. And so sit meets com, as our boys are enlisted by Sturdy... Rating: 3 Stars |