Mission: Impossible III: 2-Disc Special Collector’s Edition

After the stylish, over-the-top melodramatics of John Woo’s entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise, it was time for a new direction. With five seasons of the international superspy television show Alias under his belt, it made sense that J.J. Abrams... 

Slither

Slither (2006) harkens back to the heady decade of the 1980s when monster movies were gross-out affairs that mixed cleverness with gore. Early on, James Gunn’s feature film directorial debut gives several shout outs to these horror films by naming several... 

Solo con tu pareja

Alfonso Cuaron’s Solo con tu pareja (1991) was actually made in 1990 with state funding but was shelved by the government before finally being released in Mexico in 1991, becoming a minor commercial and critical success. Its North American debut was... 

Bad Santa: Director’s Cut

Already released on DVD with a theatrical version and a raunchier, unrated version, Bad Santa (2003) is enjoying yet another DVD release, this time the Director’s Cut. This is an anti-Christmas movie that gleefully thumbs its cynical nose at the fake... 

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

While Brokeback Mountain (2005) may have placed Queer Cinema into the mainstream spotlight, it had been going strong for many years before with such notable examples like My Own Private Idaho (1991), Go Fish (1994) and Happy Together (1997) as the IFC... 

Nacho Libre

Mexican professional wrestling (or Lucha libre as it is known) is the subject of Jared Hess’ (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) new film, Nacho Libre (2006). The sport started in the early 1900s and was mainly a regional phenomenon until wrestlers were brought... 

The Lake House

In an interesting bit of counter-programming and offering some relief from the glut of big, dumb summer action movies, The Lake House (2006) is a romantic movie for adults and is a reunion for Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock who, ironically, starred in... 

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