Archive for August 2011
GANTZ DVD Review: Your New Favorite Midnight Movie
A mind-blowing trip through a bizarre afterlife filled with fetish gear and nightmarish creatures.
Read MoreThe Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara DVD Review: Diverse Dispatches from the Japanese New Wave
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s name may not ring many bells in the West, but it ought to.
Read MoreAutoerotic Movie Review: Welcome to Mumbleporn
The stories of four couples that are anything but erotic.
Read MoreNorwegian Ninja DVD Review: A Tale of Bizarre Absurdist Comedy
A movie so surreal, even Luis Buñuel would scratch his head and say “No comprende.”
Read MoreOrpheus Criterion Collection DVD Review: Jean Cocteau Constructed a Masterpiece
One would be hard pressed to come up with a better example of presenting a classic film than this.
Read MoreBambi II Blu-ray Review: A Worthy Successor
An accomplished film that upholds and expands the tradition of the original.
Read MoreCedar Rapids: The Super Awesome Edition Blu-ray Review: Neither Super nor Awesome
Great potential, but fails to deliver.
Read MoreBlow Out Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Hearing Is Believing
Brian De Palma delivers the goods with this political thriller.
Read MoreTRON: Legacy Movie Review: This Should Have Stayed off the Grid
If only I had the ability to drag my memory of TRON: Legacy to the Recycle Bin.
Read MoreMarley & Me: The Puppy Years Blu-ray Review: Oh, Dear God, No!
A terrible kiddie movie that shamelessly rips off several other terrible kiddie movies.
Read MoreD23 Expo 2011: A Preview of Wreck-It Ralph
He’s not bad; he’s just programmed that way.
Read MoreThe Beaver (2011) Blu-ray Review: A Terrific Film with Some Dazzling Performances
Hey, this isn’t the Jerry Mathers biopic!
Read MoreSecret Sunshine Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Secret No More
Actress Do-Yeon Jeon delivers a powerhouse performance in director Chang-Dong Lee’s moving drama.
Read MoreBook Review: Lucille Ball FAQ by James Sheridan and Barry Monush
There is simply no better source for everything Lucy.
Read MoreD23 Expo 2011: Walt Disney Studios Upcoming Live-Action Releases
Based on audience reaction, The Muppets and The Avengers are what Expo attendees are most excited about.
Read MoreD23 Expo 2011: Walt Disney Studios Upcoming Animated Releases
Sneak Peeks of Brave and Wreck-It Ralph were the highlights.
Read MoreThe Killing Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Meet Me at the Racetrack
A competent heist film that provides an early glimpse of Kubrick’s emerging talent.
Read MoreSenna Movie Review: See It Now, Because Everyone Will Be Talking About It
Like the saying goes, he lived fast and died young.
Read MoreLa Rabbia DVD Review: A Politically-Charged Italian Oddity
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi square off.
Read MoreCul-de-Sac Criterion Collection DVD Review: Not Your Garden Variety Thriller
Roman Polanski’s third feature film gets a much-deserved Criterion treatment.
Read MoreThe Big Lebowski Blu-ray Review: Not Quite a Gutterball, but Close
The Dude shouldn’t have to abide in this lackluster, DNR-heavy high-def transfer.
Read MoreBook Review: The Boomer’s Guide to Story: A Search for Insight in Literature and Film by Roemer McPhee
Looking for insight into the Baby Boomers through the literature and film that influenced it and it produced.
Read MoreThe Mikado Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Dated but Has its Charms
An enjoyable melding of opera and film that offers a glimpse back in time at the sitcom of its day.
Read MoreHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie Review: A Very Satisfying Finale to a Great Run
I enthusiastically recommend it.
Read MoreLive Like a Cop, Die Like a Man DVD Review: A Truly Mind-Blowing Experience
Harry Callahan gets split into Starsky & Hutch and injected with every Italian stereotype in the book.
Read MoreThe Battle of Algiers Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Political Powder-Keg
Intelligent and visceral, Gillo Pontecorvo’s gritty and unflinching film is one for the ages.
Read MoreA Big Box Of Wood DVD Set Review: The Ultimate Ed Wood Collection
Practically everything one would want to see from this truly one of a kind talent.
Read MoreOverboard (1987) Blu-Ray Review: A Fun Throwback to the Screwball Comedy
In short: good movie, bad release.
Read MoreLaws of Gravity DVD Review: Scorsese’s Mean Streets Did It Before and Did It Better
Writer/director Nick Gomez does nothing new or memorable with this familiar material.
Read MoreDonnie Darko 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Nothing New to See Here, Folks
The theatrical cut is well worth revisiting, but this re-packaging of material is hardly anything to get excited about.
Read MoreRise of the Planet of the Apes vs. Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001): And the Winner is…
Get your hands off my childhood, you damn, dirty movie studios!
Read MorePhil Ochs: There but for Fortune Movie Review: A Study of a Study in Contradictions
A complex study of the troubled troubadour’s life.
Read MoreWedding Daze Blu-ray Review: Agreeably Low-Key Rom-Com
Charming, if rote, Wedding Daze is better than it looks.
Read MoreBe Cool Blu-ray Review: The Filmmakers Should Have Followed That Advice
Makes for decent, mid-afternoon “I’m stuck in a hotel with nothing else to do and this is all that’s on” fodder.
Read MoreThe Fox and the Hound 2-Movie Collection Blu-ray Review: More Bark For Your Buck
Marriage of feature film with direct-to-video sequel is worthwhile thanks to the decent quality of both projects.
Read MoreRise of the Planet of the Apes Presents the Rise of a New Franchise
Andy Serkis as Caesar and the CGI work by Weta Digital are the film’s highlights.
Read MoreBellflower Movie Review: Flamethrowing Its Way into Your Heart
This Sundance and SXSW fav more than lives up to the buzz.
Read MoreMars Needs Moms Blu-ray Review: Skip The Movie, Read The Book
Director Simon Wells fails to translate the charm of the source book to film.
Read MoreBook Review: Joe Simon: My Life in Comics
A great look at the comic book industry from the inside.
Read MoreThe Hedgehog (2011) Movie Review: An Emotionally Moving Film
A beautiful film about the fact that we are larger than the roles we have been assigned.
Read MoreBattle for the Planet of the Apes Movie Review: Time to Sell More Coloring Books!
Man and ape living together? It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!
Read MoreElectric Daisy Carnival Experience Movie Review: Experience It…If You Can Find It
Controversy threatens to derail theatrical debut tomorrow night.
Read MoreRio Blu-ray Review: Bird of Paradise
Director Carlos Saldanha mines his native Brazil for audiovisual gold, enriching Rio’s lifeless plot.
Read MoreStake Land Blu-ray Review: It Goes for the Throat
Dammit all, I thought this was “Skate Land”!
Read MoreLeon Morin, Priest Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Sex and Religion on the Mind
Jean-Pierre Melville directs and Jean-Paul Belmondo stars in a film that’s somewhat atypical for both.
Read MoreEscape from the Planet of the Apes Movie Review: A Cinematic Course Correction for the Franchise
“Where we come from, apes talk. Humans are dumb.” – Cornelius
Read MoreConquest of the Planet of the Apes Movie Review: Witness the First Rise of the Apes
“Tonight we have seen the birth of the planet of the apes!” – Caesar
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