This here is my third attempt at writing a review of Alan Cumming’s new film, Ghost Writer, which recently appeared on DVD shelves and Internet movie stores. It’s my third…
Ken Shane
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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 Sun DVD (January 27, Capitol/EMI). To…
Bob Cashill
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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 holidays, were fun-for-the-family events,…
Scott Malchus
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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 Cyprus-Rhodes University, all of whom are…
Scott Malchus
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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 sleeve, this is the…
Bob Cashill
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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 “Collector’s Choice†edition…
Jeff Giles
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The Women (2008, Warner Bros./Picturehouse) purchase this DVD (Amazon) Critics and film fans often tsk and tut when a studio fast-tracks a picture in an effort to shove something out…
Scott Malchus
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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 Lil’ John Show), which aired…
Jeff Giles
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Towelhead (2008, Warner Independent) purchase this DVD (Amazon) Screenwriter Alan Ball rose to prominence with 1999’s American Beauty, a quietly disturbing look at a theme that has become something of…
Bob Cashill
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“You have no will, no mind of your own,†intones the dastardly villain in The Brides of Fu Manchu, one-half of a horripilating double feature available today. Fu, I hear…
Jeff Giles
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Mamma Mia! The Movie (Two-Disc Special Edition (2008, Universal) purchase this DVD (Amazon) I freely admit I’m not the target audience for this movie. Being without a vagina, an attraction…
Scott Malchus
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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 movie is entirely bad (and it…
Scott Malchus
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Beautiful Ohio (IFC, 2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon Chad Lowe has long suffered being the second banana to his brother and his ex-wife. Even though he won an Emmy for…
Jeff Giles
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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 like: Is there…
Jeff Giles
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Get Smart (2008) Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin Director: Peter Segal purchase this DVD (Amazon) In the ’90s, the direct-to-video market was the realm of ex-stars…
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