Sid and Nancy: Criterion Collection

Amidst the chaos and confusion of the British punk rock scene in the late 1970s, the Sex Pistols emerged as the most notorious band to come out of that period. It seems like they couldn’t make a move without courting controversy. The band dynamic was... 

Lawless

Based on the historical novel The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant, Lawless (2012) is a fictionalized depiction of the Prohibition-era bootlegging practices of the Bondurant family. The book got the attention of Australian filmmaker John... 

Batman Begins

The fact that it took eight years for a new Batman film to be released illustrates how freaked out the studio was over the commercial and critical failure of Batman and Robin (1997). Warner Brothers gave the franchise a much needed rest while they quietly... 

Leon, The Professional: Deluxe Edition

Fresh from the international success of La Femme Nikita (1990), Luc Besson attempted to conquer America with Leon (1994). Trimmed of a few minutes for a potentially uncomfortable scene involving a little girl proclaiming her love for a hitman and renamed... 

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

At first, it seems like rather an odd choice picking the director of the racy, coming-of-age road movie, Y tu mamá también (2001), to direct the latest Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Studios are notoriously protective of their cash... 

True Romance Director’s Cut

Originally this was to be Tarantino’s directorial debut, but as it turned out it was Tony Scott who used the film to prove to the world that his success with Top Gun was not just a fluke and that he is more than just Ridley’s younger brother.... 

True Romance

In the early nineties director Tony Scott was given two scripts to read by a young new screenwriter, one of them was True Romance and according to Scott it was “one of the fullest and most accomplished scripts that I’d ever read”. Jump... 

Interstate 60

Despite being the co-writer for a certain Delorian-related time-travel trilogy, Bob Gale had to fight tooth and nail to make his directorial debut with this wonderfully offbeat road movie. Frustrated at being unable to make his first choice of film, Gale... 

JFK (Director’s Cut Two-Disc Special Edition)

They say that the third time’s the charm and this certainly applies to the latest DVD version of Oliver Stone’s film, JFK (1991). Previous incarnations included a movie-only edition spread over two sides of a single disc and an extras-packed two DVD... 

The Fifth Element

After critical success with indie movies like Nikita, The Big Blue and Leon, Luc Besson surprised everyone by making his next project a $90 million science-fiction adventure about a taxi driver who helps save the world. When he was thirteen, Besson dreamed...