Robin Hood Season 3
January 30, 2010
It’s always difficult for a TV series to fill the slot of a more popular one, which is why when Robin Hood launched in 2006, replacing Doctor Who, it wasn’t met with the excitement it perhaps deserved. The first season of Robin Hood was good clean...
Top Gear: The Complete Season 11
January 26, 2010
Top Gear may be a British institution, but in the UK we never get an entire series released on DVD – we have to make do with Clarkson’s many Christmas releases, and the occasional wine programme with James May. In the US however, Top Gear is released...
Director Jonathan Mostow Q&A
January 26, 2010
Terminator 3 director Jonathan Mostow stars in the action thriller Surrogates; a movie based on the successful comic book series by Robert Venditti. The story centers around a world where people live in near-total isolation, rarely leaving the safety...
The Boys are Back
January 21, 2010
After starring in blood-soaked, bullet-ridden action films like Shoot ‘Em Up (2007) and The International (2009), actor Clive Owen decided to shift genres completely and headline a touchy-feely drama for Miramax that was directed by Scott Hicks, who...
Surrogates Factoids
January 21, 2010
FACTOIDS · First-time author Robert Venditti came up with the unique premise while working at Top Shelf Publications in their shipping warehouse in suburban Atlanta. · “SURROGATES” was filmed on location in Massachusetts, primarily in Boston...
Surrogates
January 20, 2010
For every Die Hard (1986) or 12 Monkeys (1995), there are all kinds of 16 Blocks (2006) and Hostage (2005) – forgettable genre films that populate Bruce Willis’ extensive filmography. Surrogates (2009) is the latest paycheck film for the veteran actor....
Che: Criterion Collection
January 14, 2010
Che (2008) began as a personal project for actor Benicio del Toro around the time he was making Traffic (2000) with Steven Soderbergh. Originally, he planned on making the film about iconic revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara with Terrence Malick...
10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition
January 8, 2010
A crass marketing ploy to capitalize on the death of Heath Ledger or a legitimate tribute to a film that helped launch his career in the United States, as well as that of Julia Stiles? 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) also hinted at the emerging talent...
