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New DVD Releases - October 7, 2008 The new DVD releases include The Happening, The Visitor and You Don't Mess With the Zohan. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on... Coming to DVD: Mongol Offering visual spectacle and bloody battles, this Mongolian-language film directed by Sergei Bodrov is an old-fashioned epic about central Asian ruler Genghis Khan. Mongol comes to DVD on... Netflix to Stream Starz Movies Netflix has been streaming movies and TV programs to its subscribers for some time, but these have been mostly older titles. However, that is changing as now ... DVD Pick: Forgetting Sarah Marshall From the Judd Apatow laugh factory, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a funny, heartfelt comedy that I enjoyed even more than The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked... New DVD Releases - September 30, 2008 The new DVD releases include Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Iron Man and Jellyfish. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD. More About New Movies:... Paul Newman (1925-2008) Paul Newman, legendary Hollywood actor and sometime producer and director, has died at age 83. He had major roles in over 50 movies and is probably best remembered... Coming to DVD: The Strangers Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman star in this creepy horror film, the debut feature of writer-director Bryan Bertino. The movie opens with a young couple, Kristen ... DVD Pick: The Godfather Collection — The Coppola Restoration The Godfather — The Coppola Restoration is a five-disc DVD set containing all three Godfather movies — The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and The Godfather: Part III... Netflix Customers to Be Able to Stream CBS, Disney TV Shows Netflix subscribers will be able to stream current CBS and Disney Channel television shows into their homes 24 hours after original broadcast under new agreements reached... New DVD Releases - September 23, 2008 The new DVD releases include Leatherheads, Run, Fat Boy, Runand Sex and the City. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD. More About... |
Miracle at St. Anna Starring: Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso Review: Critics are raining down hard on Spike Lee's first war epic. And it's not like I don't have objections. Miracle at St. Anna is too long, lazily constructed, and crammed with too many characters and subplots for any director to develop fully outside of an HBO miniseries. But Lee isn't any director. He's an African-American maverick with a legit gripe against the white face that Hollywood puts on war. The first scene in Miracle shows us a black World War II veteran watching John Wayne on TV lording it over the D-Day invasion in The Longest Day. "We fought that war too," says the vet. Point taken. It's no surprise that Lee decided to make a film of James McBride's well-received novel about the Buffalo Soldiers, black GIs segregated from the regular Army, who served with the 92nd Infantry... Rating: 2 Stars Eagle Eye Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan Review: Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is? Did Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan think there was any acting involved in playing characters on the run from a computer intent on global domination? Are BlackBerrys and iPhones the enemy because they make us easy for the computer to track? Can the computer make me forget this movie? Rating: 1.5 Stars Flash of Genius Starring: Greg Kinnear Review: For a while, it looked like Greg Kinnear showed his acting chops best with supporting roles in the likes of As Good as It Gets, Little Miss Sunshine and the current Ghost Town. Well, hang on. Kinnear takes the star spot in Flash of Genius and rides it to glory. He plays Robert Kearns, the Detroit professor, inventor and father of six who came up with the idea for the intermittent windshield wiper during the 1960s. Go ahead, groan. I felt the same way. A night reading patent law seems more exciting. But Kinnear takes this true story — John Seabrook's 1993 New Yorker article formed the basis of the script, by Philip Railsback — and runs with it. Kearns had his "flash of genius" when a champagne cork popped his eye on his honeymoon with wife Phyllis (Lauren Graham). Why couldn't a... Rating: 3 Stars Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Starring: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings Review: "Slight" is too strong a word to apply to this teen spin on Martin Scorsese's After Hours. Peter Sollett, a director with indie cred thanks to his 2002 Raising Victor Vargas debut, takes us on an odyssey into Manhattan's night world that toddles when you ache for it to toot. The script, by Lorene Scafaria, is Afterschool Special 101: Nick (Michael Cera), an alt-rock bassist, makes mixtapes for mean girl Tris (Alexis Dziena), who dumps him. After a gig with his two gay bandmates, Nick meets and falls for Nora (Kat Dennings), who likes his tapes and his yellow Yugo. They drive around the five boroughs looking for her drunk girlfriend (a funny Ari Graynor) and the club where Where's Fluffy are playing a secret concert. I'm yawning just writing this. The compensations are Cera and Dennings,... Rating: 2 Stars Religulous Starring: Bill Maher Review: Bill Maher would have been burned at the stake if his hellishly hilarious and surprisingly thoughtful satire on organized religion had played the Inquisition. As it is, the far right will vilify him as a dangerous heretic, which is also pretty funny. Religulous, linking the words "religion" and "ridiculous," has been directed by Borat's Larry Charles in the same mode as that classic mock documentary. The movie follows the star of Real Time and Politically Incorrect from Jerusalem to Jersey as he questions Christians, Jews, Muslims, Mormons and Scientologists about faith. Maher can be a smartass, but his attempts to apply reason to religion are more a challenge than a threat. Maher, born to a Jewish mother but raised Catholic like his father, jokes about taking a lawyer to negotiate his... Rating: 3 Stars Hounddog Starring: Dakota Fanning, Piper Laurie, David Morse, Robin Wright-Penn, Jil... Review: This ain't the old Dakota Fanning rape movie they showed at Sundance nearly two years ago to a rain of critical revulsion. This is the re-edited Dakota Fanning rape movie that re-emerges as an even riper piece of cheese. Fanning, then 12, plays Lewellen, toughing it out in 1950s Alabama with her nut-case daddy (David Morse) and religious-zealot grammie (Piper Laurie) but finding solace in her worship of Elvis. The rape, barely glimpsed, happens when Lewellen does a dance for a local boy who promises her a ticket to the King's concert. If there's a Southern-gothic cliché (oh, those snakes!) that writer-director Deborah Kampmeier misses, I don't know it. What I can't figure is why anyone would want to release this tripe in theaters just when Fanning has nearly lived it down. They ain't... Rating: 0.5 Star |