An underwhelming DVD package, though the film’s rock-solid look and sound should appeal to anyone hooked on Hartnett’s package.
Simple yet handsome, this DVD edition of The Count of Monte Cristo is perhaps too understated to make an impression with potential buyers.
Rules of Attraction is less a film than a queasy collection of vignettes that both mourn and mock teen anomie.
Everyone’s shit hits the fan on cue and the film never really recovers from the rote sitcom wind-down, Goldie Hawn’s lively spirit and nasty potty mouth makes it all easier to swallow.
The film’s ultra-realism echoes Welcome to Sarajevo, except Paul Greengrass wrings more naturalistic performances from his actors.
If not handsomely produced, the features on this Scorpion King DVD edition are nonetheless expansive.
Patricio Guzmán’s distance from the material is mostly admirable.
Lions Gate has amassed an impressive array of features for this handsome DVD edition of Paxton’s overrated yet moody directorial debut.
Past the Road to Perdition lies City by the Sea, Michael Caton-Jones’s equally rote tale of father-son friction.
Brotherhood of the Wolf was popular enough to merit more than the deleted scenes sequence included here.
This Platinum Edition features some of the most in-depth, sophisticated supplemental material ever amassed for a film of this kind.
Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass put on an intoxicating show.
Cedric the Entertainer weasels himself into the lead role with very mixed (mostly negative) results.
See Dover Koshashvili’s devastating Late Marriage for a superior variation of the same theme.
Jacques Tourneur’s use of sound may be every bit as phenomenal across his films as his shadowplay.
Miyazaki reimagines Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland as an Asian folk dream in his latest gem.
Karen Moncrieff has an uncanny way of tapping into the private hells of her characters.
Fight Club meets “Big Brother” in the punchy German export Das Experiment.
It figures that the sex scene from Don’t Look Now has become more legendary than the film itself.
Studios are rarely this good to films like this. Certainly more for Carpenter fans, this DVD edition of The Fog is for their permanent collections.