October 15th, 2008 |
Pick of the Week
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
There’s absolutely no question about which DVD to highlight this week. Of all the movies from last year, this is the one that blew me away the most. I raved about it then, and my opinion hasn’t changed. Filmmaker Cristian Munjiu has managed to make a [...]
October 9th, 2008 |
Great week for classic movie lovers this week. Everything from Criterion releases of Jean-Pierre Melville to new editions of Hitchcock’s best to Alice Faye musicals. In new releases, there’s less of interest, but let’s see what we’ve got.
New Releases
The big mainstream releases are M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening and Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess With [...]
October 1st, 2008 |
Ah, a better week again for DVD releases.
Picks of the Week
Iron Man
After a few years of subpar superhero movies (Fantastic Four and sequel, X-Men 3, SpiderMan 3, etc.), the summer of 2008 got two superb ones: Iron Man and The Dark Knight. While Batman may be darker and have the better villain and be the [...]
September 24th, 2008 |
I didn’t get this out on time because I kept looking at the DVD release list this week and going, “is that it? Really?” Yeah, after the plethora of interesting options last week, this week is pretty slim.
Pick of the Week
The main thing worth looking at this week is the Godfather Coppola Restoration Set. All [...]
September 16th, 2008 |
Let’s see if I can revive the DVD New Release posts. Now that I’ve had time to actually catch up on what’s being released.
New Release Picks
Speed Racer
Okay, so I didn’t actually see this in theatres. And it got trounced by most critics. On the other hand, I’ve seen a few glowing reviews from bloggers I [...]