A Friend of the Family’s restraint allows it to sidestep some common pitfalls of many a true-crime drama.
This release of The Piano makes for yet another stunner in Criterion’s expanding 4K UHD catalog.
Criterion’s exacting presentation of Scorsese’s late-inning masterpiece is a testament to the enduring value of physical media.
The film feels composed of burnished, often blackly funny, fragments of erratic memory.
Noah Baumbach’s breakthrough still looks like his sharpest, most personally inflected work.
The main character is a collection of insecurities that have been calculatedly assembled so as to teach children familiar lessons.
Shana Betz’s too-insistent refusal to commit to the melodramatic or to the suspenseful only makes the film seem like empty dramatization.
We’ve got an exclusive clip from the film, along with the official, just-released poster and trailer.
Once a fleet-footed and hot-blooded gothic drama, True Blood hasn’t aged gracefully, and instead grown long in the tooth.
A film that barely saw the light of day, on a Blu-ray that almost didn’t happen, with an extended cut that fans thought they’d never see.
Alan Ball should leave the handwringing to the kids in Twilight.
If you want a good cross-section of Oscar habits, look no further than this year’s top five candidates for Best Actress.
This is a film that’s more interested in the emotions its characters’ seem subordinate to.
Over the years, Alan Ball’s ideological commitment to never kicking any supernatural being out of bed has led to some narrative problems.
And so it is that Oscar bloggers, seeking to itch the scratch Leo’s blatant assertion that campaigning, not prognosticating, is what wins Oscars, have collectively shifted the balance of power back to the plucky 14-year-old girl who tore through every scene (every. scene.)
Galt Niederhoffer’s turgid faux indie elicits plenty of sneers via its pretentious and phony romantic drama.
The only thing sharper and sexier than the fangs on True Blood is the writing.
An outstanding visual and auditory experience on Blu-ray easily makes up for the show’s shortcomings.
The further Alan Ball steps away from the vamps, the closer he gets to the beating heart of the human.
Pity the poor vampire.