Mr. Brooks

With very few exceptions (Zodiac), the serial killer genre is dead. Or, at the very least, is completely exhausted with nothing new to say. Along comes Mr. Brooks (2007) which attempts to offer the novelty of Kevin Costner, known mainly for playing upstanding... 

Amazing Stories: The Complete First Season

At the height of his mid-1980s fame, Steven Spielberg parlayed his clout to convince Universal Studios to back a weekly anthology show on network television that would be called Amazing Stories (named from the pulp fiction magazine of the same name) and... 

Rumor Has It

Since her highly publicized break-up with Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston has wisely kept busy making movies. Alas, they haven’t been that good. Both Derailed (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005) came and went from theatres relatively fast. The latter film was... 

Testament

With the nuclear arms race and the Cold War reaching a climax in the early to mid-‘80s, the threat of nuclear war was prevalent on most people’s minds. Two made-for-TV movies, The Day After (1983) and Threads (1984), tried to address, in graphically... 

The Untouchables: Special Collector’s Edition

Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987) had all the makings of a powerhouse production destined for greatness. It featured a screenplay written by legendary playwright David Mamet, expert cinematographer Stephen Burum (Rumble Fish) was behind the camera,... 

Open Range

Similarities between Clint Eastwood’s Oscar winning Unforgiven and this old fashioned Western effort from Kevin Costner are inevitable. While this doesn’t quite reach the lofty heights of Eastwood’s masterpiece – it’s still a powerful and convincing... 

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...