Given the generally disappointing treatment Hou’s films have received in Region 1, this DVD is, though not perfect, nonetheless something to celebrate.
The chance to see a new, eight-plus-minute version of the film should be enough incentive for fans of the film to purchase this DVD.
A so-so J-Horror remake with an excellent performance by Jennifer Connelly.
Somewhere, some frat guy is turning this PG-13 underwater porn into a screensaver.
Dumped by its original distributor because of its title, Albert Brooks’s film should, instead, have been ditched for not being very funny.
It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big Batman fan.
Superior to the 1995 Nicolas Cage remake, but only because of the wild-eyed Richard Widmark’s cackling jackal.
Preminger’s hardboiled noir is a great way to satisfy a Dana Andrews-Gene Tierney craving.
Otto Preminger accentuates not only the brutality but also the desperate emotional impact of his story’s bursts of sudden violence.
The Cinderella of the anti-Bush documentary brigade, Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight arrives late to the administration-critiquing ball.
This “based on a true rumor” story about the real-life basis for Charles Webb’s novel and Mike Nichols’s The Graduate is a rhythm-less, laugh-less mess.
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is far more concerned with pat platitudes than it is with sex.
The film is a quirky ode to romance and a showbizer’s life on the road.
Social commentary mingles with stupid comedy in Fun with Dick and Jane, a flaccid, humorless update of the 1977 George Segal-Jane Fonda romp.
The film stands as a mildly fascinating project to restore Sabina Spielrein to her rightful historical station.
Socio-politically-minded Big Idea films were all the rage in 2005.
The film is so garishly colorful and cute that even rom-com neophytes will find its uninspired adherence to formula borderline-unbearable.
The film might be the year’s most levelheaded cinematic dissertation on our ongoing war on terror.
Chris Evans may not win an Oscar for his performance in Fantastic Four, but I see an AVN award in his future.
A potty-mouthed reconfiguration of a sports classic for our Bad Santa age. Funny stuff.