The film’s vapid fluffiness makes the similarly frou-frou but ultimately more politically considerate Marie Antoinette difficult to hastily dismiss.
Peter Morgan’s interest in prominent media figures intent on proving themselves worthy of their public spotlight positions continues with The Damned United.
The film never manages to generate the dramatic momentum necessary to create requisite suspense or a sense of import.
A Grin Without a Cat is a surprisingly forthright examination of how the left dropped the ball.
The film is a center without a hold.
Inkheart is top-heavy with postcard-pretty Italian locations, undistinguished digital beasties, and clunky, one-note humans.
The film may not be Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it’s hardly Spielberg and Lucas raping your childhood hero.
When Did You Last See Your Father? is a low-key Big Fish minus the whimsical fantasy.
Equilibrium is a condition all too rarely achieved by the bloated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Hot Fuzz is now in the running for the title of Mainstream DVD of the Year.
A tongue-in-cheek take on Hollywood action films, Hot Fuzz operates off a series of contrasts.
Given the nature of the film, the image and audio is almost too good, but the film’s laughs still resonate through the spic-and-span treatment.
The matter-of-fact filmmaking style is made up for by the vitality of the all-around fantastic performances.
The features on this elaborate two-disc collection have been smartly divided into two categories to mirror the different worlds of the film.
Should the film connect with the public, we may be doomed to seeing similar such imports for years to come..
Valiant is the DVD of the year for parents who hate their children.
It focuses less on the ever-present and distracting bibilical allegory and more on its magic-and-monsters fantasy.
The slapdash construction and narrative inconsistencies aren’t nearly as damaging to the film as the mediocrity of its animation.
A hearty DVD package but strictly for that special pre-schooler and Robin Williams completist in your life.
Chris Wedge’s Robots more or less confirms that production studio Blue Sky is likely to be remembered as the Jan to Pixar’s Marcia and PDI’s Cindy.