January 16, 2009• DVD Reviews
This here is my third attempt at writing a review of Alan Cumming’s new film, Ghost Writer, which recently appeared on DVD shelves...
January 15, 2009• DVD Reviews
Rolling Stone writer David Wild makes a very good point in the feature-length documentary Going Home that is central to the That Lucky Old...
January 14, 2009• DVD Reviews
I met my wife in Hong Kong. But my first love there was Jackie Chan. I wasn’t alone in my affection: His movies, released on major...
January 12, 2009• Television, TV on DVD
ABC Family has a real winner in the series Greek. It’s a TV dramedy that revolves around a group of college students at fictitious...
January 9, 2009• DVD Reviews
Ping Pong Playa is the bomb, yo. With a quirky, offbeat story that sends up sports movies but wears its charm and heart openly on its...
As I try to figure out my top DVDs for 2008, a must for my 2009 list has already arrived. Hot on the heels of its excellent...
December 18, 2008• DVD Reviews
The Women (2008, Warner Bros./Picturehouse) purchase this DVD (Amazon) Critics and film fans often tsk and tut when a studio fast-tracks a...
December 17, 2008• DVD Reviews
Did everyone have a late-night horror show in their local TV market? Cleveland had The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show (later The Big Chuck and...
December 16, 2008• DVD Reviews
Towelhead (2008, Warner Independent) purchase this DVD (Amazon) Screenwriter Alan Ball rose to prominence with 1999’s American...
December 9, 2008• DVD Reviews
“You have no will, no mind of your own,†intones the dastardly villain in The Brides of Fu Manchu, one-half of a horripilating...
December 7, 2008• DVD Reviews
Mamma Mia! The Movie (Two-Disc Special Edition (2008, Universal) purchase this DVD (Amazon) I freely admit I’m not the target...
December 1, 2008• DVD Reviews
Somewhere in the translation from script to screen, a really smart idea got lost when Anamorph was made. That’s not to say that the...
November 18, 2008• DVD Reviews
Beautiful Ohio (IFC, 2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon Chad Lowe has long suffered being the second banana to his brother and his ex-wife....
November 14, 2008• DVD Reviews
Encounters at the End of the World (2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon) I had a very odd application. I had to explain that I was into things...
November 4, 2008• DVD Reviews
Get Smart (2008) Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin Director: Peter Segal purchase this DVD (Amazon) In the...
