The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection
May 27, 2014
There’s always a certain amount of trepidation when a filmmaker like Wes Anderson, known for making intimate and personal films, starts making movies on a more ambitious scale – bigger budgets and movie stars in an attempt to appeal to larger audience...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Criterion Collection
May 4, 2009
For years now, the Academy Award has eluded David Fincher despite the consistently good work that he has produced. Films like Seven (1995) and Fight Club (1999) were too extreme for the play-it-safe Academy voters and The Game (1997) and Panic Room (2002)...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Special Edition
October 17, 2008
It was with equal parts anticipation and trepidation that fans of the Indiana Jones films greeted news that a new installment entitled, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) was in the works. Would Harrison Ford be too old and look...
I’m Not There: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition
May 2, 2008
If you want to do a decent biopic on a musician it helps to have their approval (or that of their estate) so that you have access to their catalogue of music. This has gotten harder with the debacle that was Oliver Stone’s take on The Doors (1991)....
Babel
March 21, 2007
The new wave of Mexican cinema officially arrived in 2006 with the presence of its three most well-known representatives at the 2007 Academy Awards: Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. All three directors had films nominated...
The Aviator
November 18, 2005
For years, Martin Scorsese has been unfairly overlooked by the Academy Awards (GoodFellas losing out to Dances with Wolves?!). He is the perennial Hollywood outsider. In recent years, the veteran filmmaker seems to become aware of this slight and, like...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Two-Disc Special Edition
October 4, 2005
There’s always a certain amount of trepidation when a filmmaker like Wes Anderson, known for making intimate and personal films, starts making movies on a more ambitious scale – bigger budgets and movie stars in an attempt to appeal to larger audience...
Coffee and Cigarettes
April 18, 2005
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) is a collection of short films that filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has been making on and off for almost 20 years. Shot in between his feature films, these vignettes are a celebration of, well, coffee and cigarettes. Each story features...
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
July 4, 2004
As with The Fellowship of the Ring before it, this extended cut of The Two Towers brings us some welcome new scenes to the most epic story ever told. This isn’t so much a director’s cut as it is a simple re-intergration of segments that were...
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
October 15, 2003
For those who haven’t read the books, watching the middle film of a trilogy might seem like a frustrating, even unsatisfying experience. Not only does The Two Towers leave you on another year-long cliffhangar, but it also demands that you’ve...
