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DVD/Blu-ray Review: Stocking Stuffers
Blast off into the holidays with The Rocketeer and other recent releases
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Blu-ray Review: Criterions for Sale
Get Something Wild, and much, much more, as Criterion's biannual Barnes & Noble sale ends today
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A Few Qwik Thoughts on the Netflix Split
Netflix's run of befuddling PR moves continues with the launch of Qwikster
Read More »Blu-ray Review: An Accent on Terror
The French classic Diabolique and the Korean thriller I Saw the Devil will tingle spines in any language
Read More »Popdose 2010: Tangled Up in Blu, or Notable DVDs, Etc., of the Year
Bob Cashill discusses the state of the market, and ticks off a few top releases, but mostly just spotlights this pic from The Green Slime (Warner Archive).
Read More »DVD Review: Criterionpalooza 2010
Happy holidays, David Bowie...and to all a good last-day sale as Barnes and Noble's Criterion Collection blowout winds down. Bob Cashill sifts recent releases.
Read More »DVD Review: A “Bigger Than Life” Criterion Roundup
Once again Popdose didn’t send me to Cannes, and I imagine Toronto, Venice, and Telluride are off my itinerary. (If you think it should, start a Facebook campaign, or Twitter. I’d also like to
Read More »DVD Review: “Revanche” is a Disc Best Served Cold
Note to self: Sentiment outranks everything else when picking a Best Foreign Language Film winner in the Oscar pool. I’m not-so-secretly pleased that the stone-cold, auteurist-approved White Ribbon didn’t blue-ribbon it, despite critical hosannas.
Read More »DVD Review: “Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy”
Roberto Rossellini’s status as a father of neorealism is eclipsed by his notoriety as the father of Isabella Rossellini. His adulterous affair with Ingrid Bergman in the 50s touched off a Brangelina-sized scandal that
Read More »DVD Review: Revisiting “Paris, Texas”
1984 was a great year for foreign-language and independent cinema in the U.S. Off the top of my head I can recall seeing the following at Chicago’s Fine Arts Theater, sadly defunct by the
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