The Game: Criterion Collection
October 1, 2012
After the success of Seven (1995) expectations were high for David Fincher’s next film. He had risen from the ashes of the Alien 3 (1993) debacle and produced a critical and commercial hit when everyone least expected it. What would he do next? Never...
THE TREE OF LIFE in Theaters Friday, May 27th!
May 31, 2011
—————————– Official site: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thetreeoflife/ —————————– Written by: Terrence Malick Produced by: Bill...
The Thin Red Line: Criterion Collection
September 16, 2010
After Terrence Malick made Days of Heaven in the late 1970s, he didn’t make another film for two decades. Because he shunned the press like the cinematic equivalent of Thomas Pynchon, speculation was rampant as to the reasons why. It was rumored that...
Inside the Actors Studio: Leading Men
October 25, 2007
The latest collection of Inside the Actors Studio DVDs feature several acting legends from three consecutive decades: from the 1970s, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, from the 1980s, Sean Penn, and from the 1990s, Russell Crowe. The number of Academy Awards...
Casualties of War: Extended Cut
April 25, 2006
Casualties of War (1989) came out towards the end of the trend of Vietnam War movies in the 1980s after the likes of Oliver Stone, Stanley Rubric and others had tried their hand at it. By the time Brian De Palma’s film came out the public had grown...
Bukowski: Born Into This
March 29, 2006
Charles Bukowski was a famous novelist and poet who lived the grungy, skid row life that he wrote about so well and that also made him famous. He was an uncompromising counterculture icon and this documentary, Bukowski: Born Into This (2003), attempts...
The Interpreter
February 2, 2006
The Interpreter (2005) has all the pedigree of an A-list Hollywood movie complete with Academy Award winning leads Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, respected director Sydney Pollack, skilled screenwriters Scott Frank and Steven Zaillian and world renowned...
Carlito’s Way: Ultimate Edition
January 3, 2006
There was a lot of anticipation when Carlito’s Way was released in 1993. Director Brian De Palma had just come off a lukewarm reception for yet another Hitchcock homage, Raising Cain (1992) and was in need of a hit to appease the studios. And so, a...
Dogtown and Z-Boys
October 4, 2005
In the mid-‘70s, California was hit by a crippling drought that made it impossible to surf any kind of decent waves. The locals in an area of West Los Angeles known as Dogtown always had skateboarding to fall back on when the surfing wasn’t any good....
Mystic River
May 18, 2004
Clint Eastwood is a highly regarded actor but under-appreciated as a director. Sure, he received an Academy Award for directing Unforgiven (1992) and deservedly so, but he is conspicuously absent when critics talk about great contemporary directors like...
