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Bob Cashill
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An Editorial Board Member of Cineaste magazine, Bob is also a member of the Drama Desk theatrical critics society in New York. See what he's watching on Letterboxd and read more from him at New York Theater News.
Get Something Wild, and much, much more, as Criterion’s biannual Barnes & Noble sale ends today.
Al, don’t hang up. We need to talk about these movies of yours.
Clowns! Babies! Crab monsters! And more, from Attack the Block to Zombie.
Bob Cashill witnesses A Separation, experiences Melancholia, and feels Shame.
Murder is the author’s racket. And he’s in it with Mickey Spillane.
Bob Cashill returns to the multiplex and ponders “Moneyball,” “Drive,” and “The Debt.”
Bob Cashill isn’t all smiles over the top-grossing adaptation.
Bailee Madison is going to need a bigger flashlight to scare off unwelcome houseguests in a shivery remake.
The Coen brothers’ cult smash has gone Blu. Just take it easy, man.
Bob Cashill checks out the tight-skirted babes in Zack Snyder’s folly, and eventually critiques the extended edition on Blu-ray.
The Oscar-winning director of “Man on Wire” returns with a documentary that’s in no way monkey business.
Is a movie that’s 90% awful still worth seeing? If it’s (Optimus) prime Michael Bay, yes, almost. Other, less awful movies are also considered.
“This is no fantasy…” A DVD megaset of all things “Superman” has made it to Blu-ray.
Manufactured-on-demand discs bring the rockin’ 60s artifacts Hold On! and How I Won the War to light.
The French classic Diabolique and the Korean thriller I Saw the Devil will tingle spines in any language.
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Robin Wright may be The Conspirator in Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination film, as Michelle Williams goes west in Meek’s Cutoff.
Bob Cashill takes a look at some of the less familiar chapters from a storied career.
No fooling — Insidious, from the makers of Saw, gets things bumping in the night. Plus, Hilary Swank is The Resident, and the phantasmagorical Santa Sangre, both on DVD.
Is Disney’s take on Rapunzel a bad hair day for the studio? Bob Cashill takes his scissors to it.
London’s hottest show is now playing at a movie theater near you. And a former bride of Frankenstein stars in The Tourist, now on Blu-ray.
A megahit from Korea slams onto Blu-ray. Expect a fair amount of destruction, a lot of slashed throats, and some flying body parts.
Who’s that girl? Why it’s Jane Eyre, back again, as a new documentary revisits The Boys in the Band and some Monsters cause trouble on home screens.
There are worse things than fumbling the lyrics of the national anthem at the Super Bowl or tabloid crackups, Xtina. There is Burlesque.
Bob Cashill goes on the road again with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as they hit Blu-ray.
Meet Jacki Weaver, the Oscar-nominated star of Animal Kingdom…but don’t get too close, Bob Cashill cautions.