United 93: 2-Disc Limited Edition
September 5, 2006
On September 11, 2001, four commercial airplanes were hijacked by teams of terrorists and used as missiles to strike twice in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth plane never reached its intended target and crashed in a field...
Desperate Housewives: Season 2
August 26, 2006
After the phenomenonal success of the first season of Desperate Housewives, would the creative powers behind the popular scenes be able to maintain the momentum for the next season? For the most part, yes, as the writers do little to alter their tried...
Brick
August 21, 2006
Rian Johnson’s debut film Brick (2005) caused something of a minor sensation among critics and discerning cineastes earlier this year when it won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an...
CSI: NY: Season 2, Part 1
August 14, 2006
CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American T.V. series, attracting 17 million viewers an episode, that has swept across the world spawning many spin offs, video games, comics, novels and heaps of other merchandise, just like many other American...
Prison Break: Season 1
August 7, 2006
The opening of the Prison Break television show is something right out of a Sam Fuller movie. A non-descript man gets an extensive tattoo on his body and then proceeds to rob a bank with the sole purpose of getting arrested. He pleads no contest and is...
A Canterbury Tale
August 4, 2006
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger updated Chaucer’s A Canterbury Tale by setting it during World War II (the film actually came out in 1944) – August 1943 to be exact, when U.S. soldiers were arriving in England in preparation for D-Day. Right...
Miami Vice
August 1, 2006
It has been 17 years since Miami Vice ended its successful run on television. It became a cultural phenomenon and has since become one of the iconic shows of the 1980s. Michael Mann executive produced and acted as its guiding force in terms of look and...
Yi Yi: Criterion Collection
July 27, 2006
Edward Yang is part of the New Taiwan Cinema movement, a group of filmmakers that depict the effects of living in urban environments in post-World War II Taiwan. Among his contemporaries are Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang. They are all interested...
Commander in Chief: Inaugural Edition, Part 1
July 25, 2006
With the demise of The West Wing, Commander in Chief had hoped to pick up the slack with the same kind of touchy feely liberalism albeit with a novel twist – the President of the United States of America is a woman. The show came with the Hollywood...
The Incredible Hulk: Season 1
July 24, 2006
“Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” This classic, prophetic line, spoken in the opening credits of The Incredible Hulk T.V. show by Dr. David Banner (Bixby) was always a prelude to our hero getting angry at someone or...
