Occasionally, the film reminds you that the man who made Mean Streets is behind the camera.
One of the best Hollywood pop films of 2004, Cellular gets a handsome audio/video treatment on this New Line Platinum Series DVD.
A film only Earl Dittman could love, Catwoman is a purrrrrfect cure for insomnia.
Pretty and neatly wrapped, if Tiffany did television, this is how it’d be done.
A disappointment in more ways than one, it’s easy to forget just how beautifully Roger Deakins shot The Village.
True to the spirit of the film, the hearty supplemental materials arranged on this DVD set range from the dope to the simply flatulent.
More for fans of Freddy vs. Jason than fans of the original Alien and Predator films.
Do you have dreams of owning The Manchurian Candidate?
All genetically predisposed cinephiles must own Code 46.
Rex Reed called it “an action spectacle of weight, splendor and vast entertainment value.” Make of that what you will.
A piss-poor follow-up to the Paul W.S. Anderson original, but the DVD’s cover art and slip sleeve are pretty nifty.
Joy to the world: Wicker Park imagines what life must be like inside a music video.
A work of MTV-styled historical projection, King Arthur allows Guinevere to kick considerable ass-pity the film can’t do the same.
With no extras, this DVD edition of Intimate Strangers is strictly for fans of Patrice Leconte.
3…2…1…blast off with the Woman in the Moon.
Mark my words: Napoleon Dynamite will fly off the shelves, bound to become the most-rented DVD of the next few years. Sigh.
Finally, I can say that Will Smith and I have something in common: We’re both allergic to bullshit.
New Jersey isn’t as ugly as Todd Solondz would have us believe, but it’s also not as precious as Zach Braff tells us it is here.
Every fragment of Welles footage that surfaces is another dent in the tired argument that the man’s only claim to fame was Citizen Kane.
A terrible transfer of an essential film.
Probably the most common misconception about Metzger’s films is that they are “innocent.”