Hustle: Season 1
October 6, 2006
Hustle is a BBC television show (that airs on AMC in North America) that focuses on a group of five professional con artists — grifters who plan elaborate schemes to fleece unsuspecting marks (i.e. victims) of their money. Their primary targets...
District B13
September 28, 2006
Paris 2010. Crime has gotten so bad that certain neighbourhoods have been walled off a la Escape from New York (1981). We are quickly introduced to Leito (Belle) who it seems has ripped off Taha (Naceri), a local crime lord, of a lot of his drugs and...
Supernatural: Season 1
September 22, 2006
Out of all the science fiction and horror television shows that debuted during the 2005-2006 season, only Supernatural was picked up for another season. Why did it survive while other, better shows failed? As always there are a number of factors that...
Double Indemnity: Special Edition
September 7, 2006
“It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that street. How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle? Maybe you would have known Keyes the minute she mentioned accident insurance,...
Inside Man
August 11, 2006
Spike Lee is the last filmmaker you’d imagine making a slick heist film for a major studio and yet that is exactly what he’s done with Inside Man (2006), a cleverly staged and executed thriller. What’s even more incredible is that this intricately...
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...
V for Vendetta: Two-Disc Special Edition
August 1, 2006
Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s graphic novel V for Vendetta was a product of its time. Moore was disgusted with Margaret Thatcher’s ultra-conservative regime and scared at how close the world was coming to nuclear war. His book was a reaction to what...
A Better Tomorrow: Ultimate Edition
July 24, 2006
Some call him the “Mozart of Mayhem,” some, the “greatest action director of all time,” others, “the most popular director from the east,” but he’s simply, John Woo. That’s what this Ultimate Edition 2 disc set is really about, not...
Basic Instinct: Unrated Extended Cut
July 21, 2006
After the success of Basic Instinct (1992), the notion of a sequel was quickly proposed but it wasn’t going to be that easy as the project languished in development hell for many years with several screenwriters and directors being attached and then...
Syriana
June 27, 2006
If there’s one good thing that has come out of George W. Bush’s presidency it is a wealth of politically and socially-minded art in response to his unpopular regime. Leading the charge, in Hollywood at least, is George Clooney who has positioned himself...
