Controversial Classics Volume 2: The Power of the Media
March 31, 2006
The 1970s was a fertile time for challenging, politically charged movies. Thanks to Easy Rider (1969) a lot of riskier material was getting green-lit by the major Hollywood studios and, in some cases; they were commenting on the current political climate...
Sliver: Unrated
March 24, 2006
Red hot after the success of Basic Instinct (1992), Sharon Stone followed it up with another thriller called Sliver (1993). The film was plagued with problems. Stone didn’t even want to do it, she and her leading man, William Baldwin, did not get along...
Lord of War
March 13, 2006
Note to reader: This review and verdict is a reflection on the movie only as whatdvd.net was not sent the special features disc of the Lord of War 2 disc set. Disc One contains the movie only with the option of subtitles. We apologise for any inconvenience. Director...
Stay
March 13, 2006
Made after his auspicious debut, Monster’s Ball (2001), and the prestigious Miramax period drama, Finding Neverland (2004), Marc Forster’s supernatural thriller Stay (2005) is his cinematic bastard child, virtually ignored by critics and audiences...
November
March 12, 2006
Courtney Cox stars as a disturbed photography teacher who recently lost her boyfriend in a drugstore robbery. As her world starts to crumble, does she have more to do with the murder than even she knows? While the rest of the cast of Friends were struggling...
La bete humaine
March 12, 2006
La Bete Humaine (1938) is often cited as an example of poetic realism, popular in the 1930s in France, and that also anticipated the popularity of film noir in the 1940s. Jean Renoir’s film was based loosely on Emile Zola’s novel with the filmmaker...
Blood and Wine
March 10, 2006
Director Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson had a number of memorable collaborations in the 1970s (Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens) and worked once together during the 1980s (The Postman Always Rings Twice) and again during the 1990s (Man...
Two for the Money
March 4, 2006
Director D.J. Caruso got his start in T.V. working on shows like the short-lived Buddy Faro, Dark Angel and edgier material like The Shield and Robbery Homicide Division. He soon migrated to the same kind of dark material with his feature films, The Salton...
Flightplan
March 4, 2006
Flightplan (2005) came out around the same time as another on-the-plane thriller, Red Eye (2005) which boasted hot, up-and-coming actors Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy and directed by Wes Craven. Flightplan’s big draw is Jodie Foster. Both films...
The Bad Sleep Well
March 2, 2006
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) marked the debut of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s independent production company. He had grown tired of making samurai films for the studio and wanted to do something different. The subject matter of his new movie – corporate...
