The filmmakers end up with one too many Superman fantasies piled up on top of one another.
With no supplemental materials specific to Gaudreault’s glorified sitcom, you may want to rent rather than buy.
Think Braveheart Down Under, an impossibly masturbatory, unilateral act of hero worship.
Earth may be silent, but there’s so much vitality in any given frame as to suggest a non-stop primal scream.
No featurette overstays its welcome on this handsome Secondhand Lions DVD package.
Secondhand Lions is a fantastical lark that recalls the similarly themed Big Fish.
Ridley Scott fans: Imagine for a second what Matchstick Men would have looked like if Robert Zemeckis had directed it.
Throughout, Kiyoshi Kurosawa strains to parallel Mamoru’s jellyfish with his characters’ disaffections.
Blowup daringly suggests that an image without politics isn’t an image at all.
Skip the film altogether and go straight to disc two. Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes says it better than James Cox did.
Gene Shalit, Renee Shapiro, and Wireless Magazine (I know that’s you Earl Dittman!) loved it, so it can’t be that bad. Right?
Good transfer but no supplemental materials. Strictly for die-hard fans of La Kudrow.
The worst thing that can be said about it is that it’s a good decade too late.
Rudolph’s most accessible film in years is anchored by incredible performances by Campbell Scott and Hope Davis.
If you’re a Harvey Pekar fan, do yourself a favor and buy this DVD.
This DVD is purely for fans of Beyoncé’s booty and you-know-who’s latest shrill performance.
The film is both a love-struck but tedious ode to cinephilia and a fascinating exploration of sex as a form of political resistance.
There’s never a sense here that these characters are living out the movie Viviane can no longer make.
Hobbits, fish, horses, Asians, pirates and civil wars. This year, the Academy threatens to get all political and metaphorical on our asses.
Not surprisingly, Ace in the Hole was received poorly by the media at the time of its release.