Iron Man 2 shoots onto DVD and Blu-ray on September 28th
July 14, 2010
THE YEAR’S BIGGEST ACTION HERO BLASTS ONTO BLU-RAY AND DVD, EXPLODING WITH HOURS OF EXCITING BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE Robert Downey Jr. Returns in the $300+ Million Domestic Box Office Smash Hit, Zooming onto a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and Two-Disc...
The Only Son/There Was a Father: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu: Criterion Collection
July 13, 2010
By 1936, Yasujiro Ozu had directed 30 silent films. The Only Son (1936) was his first talkie – a business move on the part of the studio that had wanted the director to stop making silent films for years. Ozu created friction with the studio when he...
Greenberg
July 9, 2010
When I see Ben Stiller starring in brainless comedies like the Meet the Parents and the Night at the Museum films, it just makes me sad because I know he’s capable of so much more. I understand why he does these films. They are paycheck movies that...
Brooklyn’s Finest
July 7, 2010
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...
Everlasting Moments: Criterion Collection
July 1, 2010
Everlasting Moments (2008) is veteran Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell’s 14th feature film. He is the auteur of such critically acclaimed films as The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972). His latest effort is a moving love letter to the art of photography....
The Crazies
June 28, 2010
Thanks to Michael Bay, most horror film remakes are regarded with scorn and skepticism. His production company has managed to crank out a string of unimaginative, slick rehashes often made by music video directors and starring young, unremarkable actors...
Night Train to Munich: Criterion Collection
June 21, 2010
When Night Train to Munich (1940) was first proposed as a film, it was originally intended to be more serious in tone and had the working title of Gestapo. Despite being based on Report on a Fugitive, a serialized novel by Australian writer Gordon Wellesley,...
Ghost Hunters International: Season 1, Part 1
June 14, 2010
The SciFi Channel (now SyFy) hit the motherlode with the surprise success of Ghost Hunters, a reality television show where a team of investigators explore paranormal activity at a reputedly haunted location somewhere in the United States. Imagine the...
Red Desert: Criterion Collection
June 10, 2010
The term auteur was invented to describe a filmmaker like Michelangelo Antonioni who pretty much defined existential angst with the films he made in the 1960s, most notably the ones starring his then cinematic muse, Monica Vitti. With Red Desert (1964),...
Mystery Train: Criterion Collection
June 8, 2010
Jim Jarmusch is a filmmaker who has always been interested in outsiders, people who live on the fringes of mainstream society. His first three films took a look at America through the eyes of a foreigner. With Stranger than Paradise (1984), a young Hungarian...
