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Eagle Eye: 2-Disc Special Edition

January 5, 2009

Eagle Eye (2008) sees Shia LaBeouf reunited with director D.J. Caruso and producer Steven Spielberg, both of whom helped put him on the map with Disturbia (2007). That film liberally ripped off Rear Window (1954) and this new one takes on the paranoid... 

Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut

March 10, 2007

Not satisfied with the theatrical cut of Alexander (2004), a long-gestating project that he had been working on for years, or even happy with his own director’s cut in 2005, Oliver Stone has revisited his film a third and final time with an expanded... 

25th Hour

May 1, 2006

Set in a post 9/11 New York, Spike Lee’s latest ensemble drama converges around a convicted drug dealer’s last day of freedom before being hauled off to serve seven years in jail. Based on a book and screenplay by David Benioff, the writer... 

Sin City: Recut Extended Unrated

February 16, 2006

It only makes sense that if one is going to adapt a comic book into a film that it be faithful in look and tone to its source material. Otherwise, why adapt it in the first place? Of course, there is always the danger of being too faithful to the look... 

Alexander: Director’s Cut

January 30, 2006

Oliver Stone has never been afraid of controversy. Films like JFK (1991) and Natural Born Killers (1994) attracted an incredible amount of media attention, dividing critics and audiences alike. Love or hate his films, Stone can never be accused of making... 

Sin City

January 29, 2006

Sin City began as series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller as loving homages to the gritty pulp novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane and classic film noirs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Miller’s world—the dangerous,... 

Sin City

November 12, 2005

Sin City began as series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller. They are loving homages to the gritty pulp novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane and classic film noirs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Miller’s world—the dangerous,... 

Shattered Glass

April 28, 2005

There’s not a lightsaber or green screen in sight and yet Hayden Christensen is gracing our screen. Taking a break from the burden of growing up to be cinema’s biggest villain, and tackling something a bit more in his league. Although he was blessed... 

Welcome to the Jungle

June 17, 2004

When a film changes titles from its production, to its release, you don’t think too much about it. Working titles are common, it happens. However, when a film changes title from its American release to its UK release, that’s a bad sign. It means the... 

Men In Black II

October 27, 2003

The 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld movie Men in Black was something of a surprise hit. With its dark Batman-esque looks and quirky comedy it became one of the biggest grossing films of the year and won a legion of fans. The fact that it wasn’t actually very... 

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