Brooklyn’s Finest

Brooklyn’s Finest (2009) was seen as a comeback of sorts for Wesley Snipes who had been wandering the wilderness of direct-to-video fare and had not enjoyed a serious theatrical release since Blade: Trinity (2004). Unfortunately, this film wasn’t... 

Primal Fear: Hard Evidence Edition

Primal Fear (1996) is a classic example of a talented actor transcending his role, turning a character into something special and memorable. What was originally marketed as a vehicle for Richard Gere became a breakout role for then-up-and-coming Edward... 

I’m Not There: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition

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).... 

The Hunting Party

The Hunting Party (2007) harkens back to a trend in the 1980s of films about journalists in war-torn Third World countries: Under Fire (1983), The Killing Fields (1984), and Salvador (1986).These films featured flawed reporters putting their lives on... 

Days of Heaven: Criterion Collection

In retrospect, Days of Heaven (1978) can be seen as a transitional film for its director, Terrence Malick, whose first film, Badlands (1973), was a fictionalized account of Charles Starkweather, a young man who went on a killing spree with his teenage... 

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

This project started as a proposed album of opera singers performing the songs of Cole Porter by a former teacher turned entertainment lawyer John Carlin. Motivated by the many deaths of friends from AIDS, he decided to make the album a vehicle for a... 

Pretty Woman: 15th Anniversary Special Edition

Pretty Woman (1990) is the film that transformed Julia Roberts into a superstar and made her America’s sweetheart, a mantle she took away from Meg Ryan who had held it a year earlier and would lose to Sandra Bullock a few years later. Considering the...