The Royal Tenenbaums: Criterion Collection

Set to the same wistful, sentimental tone as A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), The Royal Tenenbaums begins with a hilariously edited montage (narrated dryly by Alec Baldwin) that introduces the Tenenbaum children at an early age. Chas (Stiller) is a financial... 

Bottle Rocket: Criterion Collection

Bottle Rocket (1996) saw the auspicious debut of a uniquely talented filmmaker with his own distinctive cinematic worldview. Wes Anderson made a very personal film with several of his friends starring in it, most notably brothers Luke and Owen Wilson,... 

You Kill Me

In the 1990s, director John Dahl was the go-to guy for clever, neo noirs with Red Rock West (1992) and The Last Seduction (1994). After thoroughly mining the genre the only direction left for him was comedy and this results in his latest crime film, You... 

Idiocracy

If director Mike Judge didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any luck at all. When he made his feature film debut with Office Space (1999), a hilarious comedy about the drudgery of 9-to-5 office culture, 20th Century Fox (who bankrolled the film)... 

The Family Stone

The Family Stone (2005) belongs to the eccentric family comedy sub-genre where a straight-laced protagonist that the audience can identify with meets a clan of lovable oddballs usually in the context of a holiday setting (see Home for the Holidays, Pieces... 

The Royal Tenenbaums

Set to the same wistful, sentimental tone as A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), The Royal Tenenbaums begins with a hilariously edited montage (narrated dryly by Alec Baldwin) that introduces the Tenenbaum children at an early age. Chas (Stiller) is a financial... 

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (Special Edition)

With the box office success of Legally Blonde (2001), a sequel was inevitable. Its star, Reese Witherspoon, has since become a major Hollywood player with the power and clout to create and control her own projects. As a result, the sequel is bigger and...