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Top Shots (Week of July 28, 2014)... Queen Margot: 20th Anniversary Director's Cut on Blu-ra... Allison Williams Will Be Flying High as Peter Pan in NB... An Unlikely Hero Blooms in Ibiza: Orlando Bloom Sort of... Drew Barrymore's half-sister found dead ... The Answer to American Idol's Problems Is...... CONCRETE BLONDES... CREAM FAREWELL CONCERT... JACK REACHER... MANBORG... CORRUPTION (BLU-RAY)... THE ATTACK (BLU-RAY)... TANK GIRL (BLU-RAY)... HORROR STORIES... THE UNINVITED (BLU-RAY)... THE GIRL... THE HORDE... LIFE IS SWEET (BLU-RAY)... SHOUT AT THE DEVIL (BLU-RAY/DVD COMBO)... THE BLUE ANGEL (BLU-RAY)... BABY PEGGY: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM... STORAGE WARS: VOLUME THREE... Take Part in a Film Restoration... THE 39 STEPS (BLU-RAY)... DARK SHADOWS: THE BEST OF BARNABAS... 2 BROKE GIRLS... DOWNTON ABBEY SEASONS ONE & TWO LIMITED EDITION... FLORENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE... NAZI COLLABORATORS... KATT WILLIAMS: KATTPACALYPSE... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (BLU-RAY)... PURPLE NOON (BLU-RAY)... WEEKEND (BLU-RAY)... JUAN OF THE DEAD... THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE AND OTHER TALES OF VICE AND REDEMPTI... SUNSET BOULEVARD... SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM... TABLOID... CUL-DE-SAC... 3 WOMEN... YOJIMBO/SANJURO... SUMMER HOURS (L'heure d'ÈtÈ)... WIZARD OF OZ... WINGS OF DESIRE... HORTON HEARS A WHO!... REVANCHE... LAST DAYS OF DISCO... NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS... STARGATE SG-1: CHILDREN OF THE GODS... STARGATE ATLANTIS: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON... THE STEPFATHER... THE HILLS RUN RED... MANAGEMENT... NIGHT OF DEATH... GNAW... Freddy Got Fingered... Secure The Second Season of The Border on DVD August 25... THE WALTONS: THE COMPLETE 9TH SEASON... Dance Me Outside kicks onto DVD May 6, 2008... Film-Fest 4: Sundance 2000 & Hawaii... Saving Private Ryan... |
DVD Review YOJIMBO/SANJURO (BLU-RAY)  Two of Akira Kurasowa's masterworks, masterfully presented in high definition. Read More... DVD Review WIZARD OF OZ (BLU-RAY)  The Wizard of Oz comes to Blu-ray with an HD transfer so good, and supplements so voluminous, you'll never have to buy it again. Probably.
Read More... DVD Review WINGS OF DESIRE (BLU-RAY)  Another excellent Blu-ray from Criterion, and for one of the best films of the 1980s to boot. An essential upgrade. Read More... DVD Review HORTON HEARS A WHO! (BLU-RAY)  Horton Hears a Who isn't quite the childhood classic I remembered it to be, but even if I loved it, I might advise against upgrading to Blu-ray, if only to keep the terrible bonus TV special In Search of Dr. Seuss out of your home and DVD player. Read More... DVD Review A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (BLU-RAY)  Of all the releases of A Charlie Brown Christmas, this one's the Charlie Browniest. Of course. It is in HD. Read More... DVD Review MONSOON WEDDING (BLU-RAY) 
Even as some grumble that Criterion should focus on bringing lost classics to DVD, it's tough to argue that the underappreciated Monsoon Wedding hasn't benefitted from the company's topflight treatment.
Read More... DVD Review I WANT A DOG FOR CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN Remastered Deluxe Edition  Warner Bros. line of remastered Peanuts specials continues with that perennial favorite, I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown. What? You don't remember that one? Well I do. Probably only because I reviewed the original DVD release though. Read More... DVD Review PIERROT LE FOU (BLU-RAY)  The strength of Criterion's previous release of Godard's pulp crime masterpiece makes the decision to upgrade to Blu-ray a tough one—until you see the image transfer, that is, and head to eBay to sell your old copy. Read More... DVD Review THE OFFICE: SEASON FIVE 
Read More... DVD Review SMALLVILLE: THE COMPLETE EIGHTH SEASON  Smallville. Season eight. Yeah, I'm as shocked as you are. More so that the show seems to have improved somewhat despite the departure of about half the original cast. Read More... DVD Review AUDIENCE OF ONE  A well-meaning pastor who has never made a movie, maybe not even seen very many, believes he is called by God to mount at $100 million production of a Christian Star Wars-ian epic. It goes about as well as you might expect. Read More... DVD Review THIRTYSOMETHING: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON  Here's a fun game: Try to watch the debut season of thirtysomething all the way through without saying any of the following: Read More...  Jacques Tati's Playtime is a movie made for HD. Well, no. It was made to be seen in 70mm on a huge screen. In a cinema. In Paris. In 1967. But I'll take what I can get. Read More... DVD Review REPULSION (BLU-RAY)  After The 400 Blows, Last Year at Marienbad, and now Repulsion, I'm really starting to fall in love with Criterion's widescreen black-and-white Blu-rays.
Read More... DVD Review I LOVE YOU, MAN (BLU-RAY)  No. I won't do it. I refuse to refer to this movie as a "bromance." Read More... DVD Review THE EDGE OF LOVE (BLU-RAY)  The Edge of Love: Or, The Edge of Sleep. Read More... DVD Review GRAN TORINO (BLU-RAY)  If Gran Torino is Clint Eastwood's last film as an actor, he picked a good performance to go out on. So good that he overshadows the fact that the movie can be accurately summarized as "Dirty Harry meets an Afterschool Special About Racism, and Also, Gangs Are Bad." Read More... DVD Review GARRISON KEILLOR: THE MAN ON THE RADIO IN THE RED SHOES  Garrison Keillor has created an entire town with his words, over 30 years of weekly radio monologues shaping the lives of the residents of Lake Wobegone, Minn. Garrison Keillor: The Man On the Radio in the Red Shoes looks for the man behind the stories. Not surprisingly, it just finds more stories.
Read More... DVD Review MADE IN U.S.A.  Heretofore ironically unavailable in the U.S. (due to rights issues with the Donald E. Westlake novel upon which weíre supposed to believe it is ìbasedî), Jean-Luc Godard's candy-colored genre meditation Made in U.S.A. comes to DVD from The Criterion Collection. Thank goodness for the supplements, practically essential to unpacking one of the most challenging and inscrutable films of the director's celebrated 1960s output. Read More... DVD Review PEANUTS 1960's COLLECTION  The umpteenth repackaging of the popular Peanuts TV specials includes a few that are new to DVD and a great documentary on composer Vince Guaraldi. Read More... DVD Review WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?  Woody Allen's comedic redubbing of a couple of Japanese crime films is still full of laughs, but what's really funny is how similar this "new" DVD is to the one released in 2003. So funny I forgot to laugh. Read More... DVD Review LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (BLU-RAY)  Debate the merits of the confounding film all you want, but there's no arguing the fact that this Blu-ray offers one of the most beautiful black-and-white transfers ever produced.
Read More... DVD Review THE LADY VANISHES  One of Hitchcock's purest entertainments, The Lady Vanishes is as funny and suspenseful a picture as you could ask for. If the plot goes off the rails a bit in the end, it's easy to overlook; we've been so entertained during the voyage. Read More... DVD Review BOTTLE ROCKET (BLU-RAY)  Wes Anderson has developed into a love-him-or-hate-him filmmaker, but it's hard not to be won over by his first attempt, especially when watching it on Criterion's excellent Blu-ray release. Read More... DVD Review THE WOMEN (BLU-RAY)  The 2008 remake of The Women: A Dialogue. Read More... No current bio information for this contributor |
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