This is the rote story of a sarcastic drunk who falls in love with a one-night stand and learns he has cirrhosis of the liver all in the same week.
You wouldn’t know it from the cover art, but the excellent video transfer on this Clearing DVD shows that Robert Redford is rapidly pushing 70.
Fat Girl is noticeably slim in the extras department, but she looks and sounds better than ever.
What is the film’s drag act but an excuse for Marcus and Kevin to learn how to respect a woman’s feelings?
Brad Anderson’s atmospheric but shallow The Machinist comes with a powerful special effect: Christian Bale.
I suppose it could be worse. I mean, seriously, who would you rather go around the world with in 80 days: Jackie Chan or Hilary Duff?
A handsome DVD package for America’s favorite romanticized prison rape drama.
Previously released on DVD in 1999, Mulan gets a new digital transfer on this two-disc Special Edition, and it looks great.
The appeal of Frank Darabont’s film isn’t exactly inexplicable.
I suppose girls could do worse than entertain the film’s feminist message for 90 minutes.
In Gate of the Sun, Palestinians may not have the right to walk on their homeland, but they do have the right to speak and dream.
The Hunger is strictly for perverts and camp enthusiasts.
The film is all all neo-gothic smoke and mirrors.
Palidromes is nothing but a totem to its maker’s martyr complex.
Its so-so audio/video treatment means the DVD isn’t a keeper, but the film is good enough to merit at least a rental.
Mathieu Kassovitz and Matthew Libatique talk very generally about the film on the limp commentary track included here.
Yes, folks, people over 50 still like to get their groove on.
In the immortal words of Bob Barker: Remember to have your pets spayed or neutered.
After watching the supplemental materials on this DVD, you’ll never get the following words out of your head: “Hi, I’m Hilary Duff!”
The film’s shift in hysteria wouldn’t be so bad if Dylan Kidd treated coincidence as a form of abstract art.