Title: Robert Luketic’s ’21’ is a Bust
February 23, 2015
21 premiered in 2008 starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, and Kevin Spacey. The film follows a group of six MIT students, brought together by an MIT professor, Micky Rosa (Spacey). Rosa trains the six gifted students on how to become...
Popeye the Sailor: Volume 1
August 10, 2007
Fans of the original Fleischer brothers animated Popeye short films can throw away their crappy bootlegs and VHS copes because the folks at Warner Brothers have out done themselves with this new, four-disc set that features 60 theatrical shorts painstakingly...
Overlord
April 13, 2007
Stuart Cooper’s Overlord (1975) is proof that you can make an epic movie about World War II with very little money. His film depicts one man’s journey from basic training to D-Day. He did this by blending archival war footage from the Imperial War...
Grey Gardens/The Beales of Grey Gardens
January 5, 2007
Grey Gardens (1976) is an odd curio even by the Criterion Collections’ standards – a documentary about Jackie Kennedy’s aunt Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie who lived in a run-down, 28-room house on Long Island. How did these two members...
Nardwuar the Human Serviette
April 24, 2006
How does one describe the Nardwuar experience? Well, first of all for those not in the know, Nardwuar, the self described human serviette, is a roving reporter of sorts from Vancouver, British Columbia who interviews musicians, politicians and celebrities...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
April 4, 2006
Carefully marketed to be the next franchisable fantasy film alongside The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Harry Potter series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) defeated Peter Jackson’s over-hyped juggernaut, King...
Transporter 2
April 2, 2006
Ex-Special Forces man Frank Martin is back for more impromptu violence with household objects as the little boy he looks after is abducted by nasty men with accents. There’s a certain appeal about both the Transporter films and their leading man,...
That ’70s Show: Season 3
March 27, 2006
As the title suggests this show is set over three decades ago, the time that brought us Kiss, Pong, The Exorcist and Bell Bottoms. If the fashion and decor of the 1970s wasn’t funny enough, it’s a hip comedy as well from the creators of 3rd...
The Weather Man
March 12, 2006
Gore Verbinski is a throwback to filmmakers from the classic Hollywood era in the sense that he’s a journeyman director working in a variety of genres: the romantic comedy (The Mexican), horror (The Ring) and action/adventure (Pirates of the Caribbean)....
Bad News Bears: Special Collector’s Edition
February 21, 2006
If fans of Richard Linklater’s films were nervous when he entered the mainstream with School of Rock (2003), a Jack Black vehicle with kids, then they must’ve freaked out when it was announced that he was remaking The Bad News Bears (1976) with Billy...
