Wayne’s 1976 swan song lands on Blu-ray with a stagecoach full of extras.
Lucas’s massively influential nostalgia fest receives a sadly dismal transfer.
Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives gets lost in a story that’s already been told.
Hillbilly Elegy feels like a bland feel-good story rather than one part of a longer tragedy with no clear end.
Throughout, the too-brief depictions of Luciano Pavarotti’s flaws are conspicuously shrouded in a veil of hagiography.
This is another quarter-billion-dollar installment in the world’s longest and most expensive screensaver.
Ron Howard’s adaptation retains the essential inanity of author Dan Brown’s source material.
The narrative is helplessly adrift, a yarn that extols vague grit and determination with no discernible through line.
What could have been a spirited dissection of Jay-Z’s optimistic enterprise is instead merely an advertisement for it.
A collection of comments about winning, losing, perseverance, discipline, violence, compassion, exploitation, responsibility, and ambition.
Baggage Claim, the other(ed) wide release this week, will likely be marginalized because of these “higher profile,” male-driven openers.
Ron Howard’s by-the-seat-of-your-pants aesthetic makes the slower, darker sequences feel hurried and bland, especially when stacked up next to the racing sequences.
It’s easy to see what displeased critics and audiences alike at the time of the film’s release.
Transformation is a major theme at the heart of the new season, and this looks and feels like a different show.
Outside of the earnest and grounding turn by Warwick Davis, the characters and accompanying performances are uniformly maladroit.
Howard’s faux-Tolkienian epic of burdensome adventuring gets a royal treatment from Fox with an excellent A/V transfer and a solid bundle of extras.
Lots of folks go missing in the movies, and some of the most memorable are right here in this list.
The Dilemma gets the indifferent DVD treatment it deserves. Skip it.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011: Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
Roger Corman has had as much influence over modern Hollywood as Spielberg or Scorsese, and for good reason.
The Dilemma more or less reviews itself by plot description.