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DVD Review: Kurt Russell Is the King in John Carpenter’s “Elvis”
The 1979 biopic, Elvis, has finally found a home on DVD thanks to Shout! Factory. This made-for-TV movie was a huge success when it originally aired. There’s no question why: The movie came our
Read More »DVD Review: Tony Jaa “Ongs” Your Ass with Prequel Fu
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) paired Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the nick of time. Two years later 55-year-old Chan is playing the Mr. Miyagi part in the Karate Kid remake and 46-year-old Jet
Read More »DVD Review: Take That, Beotch! “Bitch Slap” Arrives on DVD
Outrageous, over the top and a purely visceral experience, Bitch Slap is a throwback to the grindhouse pictures of the ’60s and ’70s, the kind of films that featured women dressed in low cut
Read More »DVD Review: Paul Giamatti as Paul Giamatti in “Cold Souls”
The latest entry into the category of Kaufman-esque surreal comedies, derived from the name of writer/director Charlie Kaufman, whose films include Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, is Sophie Barthes’s Cold Souls, a film in
Read More »DVD Review: Uma Thurman Takes On “Motherhood”
Writer-director Katherine Dieckmann’s new indie film, Motherhood, has the look and feel of an extended episode of Sex in the City, if Carrie Bradshaw settled down in an old apartment overrun with books and
Read More »The Popdose Interview: R.J. Cutler Fashions “The September Issue”
The documentarian who co-produced The War Room enters the battlefield of fashion with Vogue editor Anna ("Nuclear") Wintour in The September Issue, out on
Read More »DVD Review: “Women in Trouble”
Women in Trouble is yet another L.A. ensemble movie in which various strangers intersect on one day and all lives are altered in some way. This film is unique in that all of the
Read More »DVD Reviews: A Slam Dunk and a Missed Layup—”More Than a Game” and “Hurricane Season”
With the NBA All Star Game behind us and March Madness just around the bend, two new DVD releases about basketball should keep all you round ball junkies appeased when there isn’t a game
Read More »DVD Review: Enter “The House of the Devil”
Solid craftsmanship disguises some rickety timber in The House of the Devil. Writer/director/editor Ti West says in one of the DVD’s two commentary tracks that he had Polanski and Kubrick in mind when he
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