When youÁ¢€â„¢re presented with the opportunity to see a film deemed Á¢€Å“too unbearable to release,Á¢€ you have to check it out, donÁ¢€â„¢t you? ThatÁ¢€â„¢s how I wound up with a…
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Bob Cashill
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In the HBO/BBC co-production Into the Storm, a visibly moved Winston Churchill (played, in an Emmy-winning performance, by Brendan Gleeson) screens his favorite movie, That Hamilton Woman (1941), for guests….
Jack Feerick
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It’s one of the biggest film flops of all time. But Jack Feerick wanted to know — really, how bad can it be?
Bob Cashill
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Few genres are as absorbent as film noir. Science fiction (Blade Runner), horror (Seven), and high school movies (Brick) have soaked up the world-weary, hard-boiled attitudes and atmospherics of Double…
Bob Cashill
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A 201-minute Belgian film described as a Á¢€Å“domestic 2001Á¢€ could inspire reams of pretentious criticism, but I found Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) pretty easy to…
Bob Cashill
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I should cut Whit Stillman some slack. He got his start as a feature filmmaker at age 38 with the acclaimed Metropolitan (1990)Á¢€”the right time to look backwards with a…
Bob Cashill
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Godzilla doesnÁ¢€â„¢t turn up anywhere in the three-film Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection, but the movies are so terrifically entertaining heÁ¢€â„¢s hardly missed. Godzilla and friends stomped across my childhood…
Bob Cashill
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Back in the day, I spent part of every summer in the vicinity of the Seaside Heights amusement park on the Jersey Shore. The log flume, the Tilt-A-Whirl, the Himalaya…
Scott Malchus
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Gigantic (2009, Vivendi Entertainment) Purchase this DVD from Amazon Matt AseltonÁ¢€â„¢s film Gigantic is a quirky little movie with a great deal of charm and plenty of heart. Eccentric would…
Jack Feerick
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Jack Feerick has just returned from a pulse-pounding adventure with the world’s most famous Christian vegetables!
Dw. Dunphy
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Neil Gaiman is a writer of fairy tales. Sure, some of those fairy tales involve characters who pay other characters to do bad things, but at the heart of every…
Bob Cashill
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The summer that brought us Woodstock and the moon landing also lives in infamy for the Manson murders, which means a rehash of the life, times, and crimes of Sharon…
Lance Berry
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This is the story of how Hal Jordan became the greatest Green Lantern of them all. It’s also about the fall of a once-great man, how heroes are unintentionally made,…
Scott Malchus
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Push (2009, Summit Entertainment) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray ItÁ¢€â„¢s obvious that the makers of the film Push thought they had a winner on their hands because, with an…
Bob Cashill
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I donÁ¢€â„¢t smoke. I donÁ¢€â„¢t like smoking. But I donÁ¢€â„¢t like moves to ban smoking in movies, either. Smoking is a sad fact of life, as our president will attest,…
Bob Cashill
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If youÁ¢€â„¢re looking to commemorate the moonwalkÁ¢€”the original moonwalk, that isÁ¢€”on July 20, look not to the stars but to your DVD vendor, and pick up a copy of Al…
Scott Malchus
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Knowing (2009, Summit Entertainment) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray Alex Proyas, the gifted director behind The Crow, I, Robot and the cult classic Dark City, really knows how to…
Robert Cass
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Writer-director M. Brian King’s Night Train is a peculiar film. It’s a modern-day suspense thriller in which blood-splattered corpses pile up quickly, but it explicitly references 20th-century classics like John…
Scott Malchus
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Phoebe in Wonderland (2009, Image) purchase from Amazon: DVD Elle Fanning gives one of the most touching and heart breaking performances you will see this year in writer/director Daniel BarnzÁ¢€â„¢s…
Bob Cashill
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Most DVD commentaries end with the participants saying goodbye, or Á¢€Å“see you next time,Á¢€ or simply disappearing as the credits roll. Á¢€Å“This is a good movie, you canÁ¢€â„¢t take that…
Bob Cashill
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My list of favorite comics-inspired movies would include the first two Superman films, the first two X-Men, Batman Returns, Spider-Man 2, Ghost World, the 1980 Flash Gordon, and Last Year…
Scott Malchus
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Nobel Son (2009, Fox) purchase from Amazon: DVD Nobel Son, a new caper film on DVD, is a satisfying time if you happen to enjoy films with unexpected twists and…
Jeff Giles
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A bloody bucket full of Friday the 13th movies has made its way to DVD and Blu-ray, and Jeff Giles is back from Crystal Lake to talk about them.
Ken Shane
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There’s a well-known saying that if you think Woodstock was great, you weren’t there. The point is that the mud, drugs, lack of food and water, and often bad music…
Bob Cashill
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Á¢€Å“The Man Behind the Magic,Á¢€ the title of the mainstage extra within this five-film set of movies the genial two-time Oscar winner made for Columbia Pictures from 1954-1964, tells you…
Scott Malchus
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S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale (2009, Fox) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray From the Á¢€Å“unnecessary sequels to films that donÁ¢€â„¢t need a sequelÁ¢€ department comes S. Darko: A…
Bob Cashill
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Fordian or Hawksian? ThatÁ¢€â„¢s the kind of question IÁ¢€â„¢d love to see ricochet around Facebook, where IÁ¢€â„¢ve been asked what 80s movie I am, what Renaissance painter I am, and…
Lance Berry
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I’ve never been a true fan of the Western genre. As a matter of fact, I can count the number of Westerns I like enough to own on DVD and…
Jack Feerick
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In the pantheon of queer models of femininity, Barbra Streisand looms large — just below the holy trinity of Judy and Liza and Liz, perhaps. For many gay men of…
Markus Flanagan
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Purchase this DVD (Amazon) As a lifelong Phillies fan I was anxious to relive the glories of my team. Yes, weÁ¢€â„¢ve lost more than any club in baseballÁ¢€â„¢s long history,…