Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Director’s Cut
November 25, 2008
For the last few years, Ben Stiller has been coasting on his patented, one-note neurotic doormat shtick in films like Night at the Museum (2006), The Heartbreak Kid (2007), and others. What happened to the guy who could play a self-destructive junkie...
Le Doulos: Criterion Collection
November 25, 2008
Jean-Pierre Melville was known for making genre films with rambling narratives that delighted in taking all kinds of plot diversions. His seventh film, Le Doulos (1962), based on the novel by Pierre Lesou, deviated from his usual approach to produce a...
Chungking Express: Criterion Collection
November 24, 2008
Chungking Express (1994) is a film obsessed with time. Not only are its characters consciously aware of and thinking about time passing, but the film itself plays around with the slowing down and speeding up of time. The camera lingers on close-ups of...
Spin City: The Complete First Season
November 20, 2008
Before he had critical and commercial success with the Scrubs television program, Bill Lawrence co-created Spin City with Gary David Goldberg, himself no stranger to producing a hit T.V. series with the huge triumph that was Family Ties. Spin City saw...
Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition
November 17, 2008
Before the advent of DVD audio commentaries, Mystery Science Theater 3000 provided irreverent commentary on 198 schlocky B-movies of the science fiction and horror variety over 11 years. The premise revolved around a man and his two robot sidekicks trapped...
Missing: Criterion Collection
November 14, 2008
Costa-Gavras’ Missing (1982) was part of an exciting trend in early 1980s cinema that included films like The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Under Fire (1983), The Killing Fields (1984), and Salvador (1986) – powerful, politically-charged exposes...
Hell Ride
November 13, 2008
The story goes that Quentin Tarantino is a fan of Larry Bishop’s films and when the two filmmakers finally met on the set of Kill Bill (2003); Tarantino reportedly told Bishop that if he wrote and directed an AIP-style biker film he would produce it....
The Sarah Silverman Program: Season 2, Volume 1
November 13, 2008
The Sarah Silverman Program is a very successful show for the Comedy Central network. So much so, that a second season quickly followed the much celebrated first one. However, the Writers Guild of America strike broke the season up into two parts, the...
Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films
November 13, 2008
Sony’s latest Icons of Horror box set celebrates Hammer horror films by presenting four classics, beautifully restored and shown in their original aspect ratios. Hammer is best known for revitalizing and reinventing the horror genre during the 1950s...
The 4400: The Complete Series
November 10, 2008
The 4400 made its debut in 2004 as a five episode mini-series that capitalized on the popularity of science fiction television shows like Lost. Seasons two and three quickly followed before it was canceled after a fourth in 2007 due to the Writers Guild...
