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February 02, 2010
Sadly going straight to DVD, instead of getting the theatrical release it deserves, this Sundance ’09 sensation gleefully rocks every black stereotype imaginable.
February 02, 2010
This is a road movie and a buddy comedy, and it’s funny as hell, but it’s first and foremost a horror thriller about killing zombies.
February 02, 2010
Every utterance by Hilary Swank in her interpretation of flying legend Amelia Earhart seems like either a motivational bromide or a statement of female empowerment.
DVD Pick: The Invention of Lying
January 19, 2010
British comic Ricky Gervais makes his feature writing/directing debut (with co-writer and co-director Matthew Robinson) of a comic fantasy that might be called Charlie Kaufman lite.
DVD Pick: Cairo Time
January 18, 2010
Love is a many-splendoured but also highly cerebral thing in Cairo Time, the winner of the Canadian feature prize at TIFF ’09.
DVD Pick: 9
December 29, 2009
This post-apocalyptic adventure adds up to everything except an obvious audience.
DVD Pick: Paranormal Activity
December 29, 2009
This may be be the best homage to (or rip-off of) The Blair Witch Project since that shaky-cam shocker set the bar for low-budget horror a decade ago.
DVD Pick: Jennifer's Body
December 29, 2009
Had Diablo Cody not charmed all comers and scored an Oscar for her linguistically limber screenplay for Juno, it’s unlikely her sophomore outing with this non-bawdy horror flick would have attracted attention — or disappointment — outside of bored and horny teen boys.
DVD Pick: Inglourious Basterds
December 15, 2009
Pure wish-fulfilment fantasy by Quentin Tarantino, in which Hitler and his stooges stand to get what’s coming to them
DVD Pick: The Hangover
December 15, 2009
A no-star cast takes a shop-worn theme about boys being bad in Las Vegas, and turns it into something fresh, funny and profitable
DVD Pick: Taking Woodstock
December 15, 2009
Extremely Trivial Pursuit: Who rented the motel rooms to the guys who did the Woodstock Festival?
DVD Pick: Terminator Salvation
December 01, 2009
Who’d ever have guessed that we’d be missing the thespian nuances of Arnold Schwarzenegger or complaining about the coldness of a robot movie?
DVD Pick: Night At the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
December 01, 2009
Expectations are the devil’s playground.
DVD Pick: In The Loop
November 10, 2009
“We, the people,” becomes “We, the political weasels” in the backrooms of power in Washington and London
DVD Pick: The Taking of Pelham 123
November 03, 2009
Against all odds and better advice, Tony Scott directs Denzel Washington and John Travolta in a remake of the kidnap classic
DVD Pick: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
November 03, 2009
If nothing else, this exercise in ballistic bathos sets to rest the theory about chimps with typewriters being able to produce Shakespeare if given enough time and bananas.
DVD Pick: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
October 27, 2009
This third trip to the Ice Age cooler is a Jurassic Lark.
DVD Pick: Orphan
October 27, 2009
Family values are also put to the test in this surprisingly effective summer shocker, which plays off the age-old fear of inviting horror into your home.
DVD Pick: Year One
October 06, 2009
In theory, teaming human apostrophe Jack Black with man-child Cera as reluctant prehistoric heroes seems like a grand idea.
DVD Pick: The Wizard of Oz: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition
October 06, 2009
Is it possible to say “overkill” and “must have” in the same breath?
DVD Pick: Monsters vs. Aliens
September 29, 2009
Slip on your 3-D specs and dig the 1950s-ish angle of this animated comedy
DVD Pick: The Girlfriend Experience
September 29, 2009
More about the idea of sex than the act of it, Steven Soderbergh’s exploration of lust for sale is low on carnality but big on authenticity.
DVD Pick: Away We Go
September 29, 2009
Dramatically inclined director Sam Mendes veers wildly off track with this attempt at a road comedy depicting narcissistic layabouts seeking advice for their impending parenthood.
DVD Pick: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
September 22, 2009
Matthew McConaughey is a cad and a bounder in this update of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and here’s where things gets interesting.
DVD Pick: Observe and Report
September 22, 2009
A sick and unfunny fantasy about a loathsome mall cop named Ronnie Barnhardt
DVD Pick: O’Horten
September 22, 2009
Bent Hamer’s latest distillation of Scandinavian wit is a bit o’ wintry whimsy about a retired train driver who goes off the rails as soon as he leaves the track.
DVD Pick: Hunger
September 01, 2009
An emotional and artistic take on the 1981 Irish prison hunger strike led by IRA militant Bobby Sands
DVD Pick: State of Play
September 01, 2009
A thriller about righteous newspaper reporters seems boldly nostalgic in 2009, but it’s a “B” movie with an “A” cast furiously pounding the pavement.
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