The first thing you need to know about me is that I like to watch movies multiple times. Given the choice between watching something again or watching something I’ve never…
Film
I’ll admit, first and foremost, that I’ve been more a fan of the Harry Potter films than I have the books. While I admit the books are enjoyable (I’ve read…
I donÁ¢€â„¢t smoke. I donÁ¢€â„¢t like smoking. But I donÁ¢€â„¢t like moves to ban smoking in movies, either. Smoking is a sad fact of life, as our president will attest,…
If youÁ¢€â„¢re looking to commemorate the moonwalkÁ¢€”the original moonwalk, that isÁ¢€”on July 20, look not to the stars but to your DVD vendor, and pick up a copy of Al…
The Hurt Locker does the impossible: It single-handedly redeems the mostly misbegotten run of Á¢€Å“sandÁ¢€ films, those war-on-terror features connected to Iraq and Afghanistan, a genre about as useless and…
Since I’m usually ready to give any movie a go (unless the name Uwe Boll is attached to direct), I figured I’d check out a film I wouldn’t normally be attracted…
Knowing (2009, Summit Entertainment) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray Alex Proyas, the gifted director behind The Crow, I, Robot and the cult classic Dark City, really knows how to…
Writer-director M. Brian King’s Night Train is a peculiar film. It’s a modern-day suspense thriller in which blood-splattered corpses pile up quickly, but it explicitly references 20th-century classics like John…
A couple months ago I was browsing around the vinyl section at my local Half-Price Books when I came across a near-mint copy of the soundtrack to Two of a…
When you think about it, there’s no earthly reason why movies based on video games should, as a class, be so atrocious. For one thing, the games themselves are largely…
A controversy erupted recently when critics claimed that two of the robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were racist caricatures. What then occurred was the standard Internet back-and-forth over…
I’ve been a fan of director Michael Mann (Ali, The Last of the Mohicans) for some years now. One thing I’ve always been able to count on is that no…
Phoebe in Wonderland (2009, Image) purchase from Amazon: DVD Elle Fanning gives one of the most touching and heart breaking performances you will see this year in writer/director Daniel BarnzÁ¢€â„¢s…
Most DVD commentaries end with the participants saying goodbye, or Á¢€Å“see you next time,Á¢€ or simply disappearing as the credits roll. Á¢€Å“This is a good movie, you canÁ¢€â„¢t take that…
I’m not a fan of the Ice Age movies. OK, I like the little squirrelly guy who continually risks severe bodily injury in search of a nut, because I can…
I first heard about The Matchmaker (1997) during an HBO comedy special Janeane Garofalo did not long after she’d finished filming it. She was talking about her time in Ireland…
Amidst the turbulence in the world of pop culture comes good news from, of all places, Afghanistan. At the start of the new documentary Afghan Star, we see a line…
Actors can be an easy bunch to spot around Los Angeles. Often, they can be seen exiting a KinkoÁ¢€â„¢s with a box of 500 headshots. The male can usually be…
My list of favorite comics-inspired movies would include the first two Superman films, the first two X-Men, Batman Returns, Spider-Man 2, Ghost World, the 1980 Flash Gordon, and Last Year…
Nobel Son (2009, Fox) purchase from Amazon: DVD Nobel Son, a new caper film on DVD, is a satisfying time if you happen to enjoy films with unexpected twists and…
A bloody bucket full of Friday the 13th movies has made its way to DVD and Blu-ray, and Jeff Giles is back from Crystal Lake to talk about them.
We live in a self-absorbed culture. Everything we do is shared through blogs, status updates, and tweets. Now that people have the Internet on their phones, nobody is more than…
New Yorkers arenÁ¢€â„¢t a sentimental bunch. But there are some things weÁ¢€â„¢re fiercely protective of. One of those is the 1974 crime drama The Taking of Pelham One Two Three….
There’s a well-known saying that if you think Woodstock was great, you weren’t there. The point is that the mud, drugs, lack of food and water, and often bad music…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Hiya, kids! This week’s mix is brought to you by Jeff Johnson, who’s been a friend of mine since high school. Ever since I’ve known…
Á¢€Å“The Man Behind the Magic,Á¢€ the title of the mainstage extra within this five-film set of movies the genial two-time Oscar winner made for Columbia Pictures from 1954-1964, tells you…
Eddie Murphy’s back on the big screen this weekend in Imagine That, but Kelly Stitzel’s been bullied into talking about Murphy’s 1988 smash hit Coming to America by Jeff Giles and Jason Hare. Imagine that!
Appropriately for a week in which an Eddie Murphy movie is reaching theaters, Arend Anton devotes his latest Biggest Picture column to cinematic horror.
Bob Cashill is back for another week of film reviews — and for this edition of No Concessions, he digs into The Hangover, Killshot, and the Youssou N’Dour documentary I Bring What I Love.