‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’ has been re-issued on home video again, this time in a three-Disc 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition. Is it worth it?
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Reviews
Two of the best movies of the year are out on Blu-ray and DVD this week, and although each explores the human condition, they couldn’t be farther from each other in approach.
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Two very different kinds of wars are profiled in this Blu-ray review of an old classic and a new movie that’s sure to become one.
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If you want a toe-tapping, boot-scooting Saturday night or Sunday afternoon fun–‘Footloose’ 2011 is your movie. Sorry, Kevin Bacon, but it’s the truth.
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Great care has been taken to not fill ‘The Thing’ remake/prequel thingie full of lame, jittery camera angles and a faster-than-necessary pace, which is nice. But is it too generic?
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Roman Polanski and Jean Cocteau are featured in this review of two of Criterion’s new Blu-ray issues of weird, weird films.
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Real Steel is a glossy, soulless piece of junk that wants you to cheer along, but it doesn’t earn one ounce of real anything.
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If you’re having thoughts of “Harold and Maude,” it’s no wonder. Most of ‘Restless’ seems like a younger version of Hal Ashby’s classic awkward, yet touching romance.
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If you need a solid political thriller, with acceptably mediocre direction and some great acting, then ‘The Ides of March’ should satisfy.
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Criterion has two strange little movies from classic directors, out on Blu-ray now.
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Movie review of “50/50,” where Seth Rogen plays the best friend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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You’ve seen this story before, but never quite like this: A group of college kids on a road trip run into a couple of unsavory types in the back woods and terror and mayhem ensues. So what makes Tucker & Dale vs. Evil so different? The script by Morgan Jurgenson and Eli Craig turns the overused premise sideways and provides one […]
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I have a simple rule of thumb when it comes to discussing and analyzing movies about cancer. Does the film work, is it compelling, if you replace cancer with something else? If the characters still hold your interest, and the situations they find themselves in move us more deeply into the story without the big […]
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While I certainly appreciate the first two “Paranormal Activity” films, I was worried that they’d be unable to sustain a third installment. Based on the cut of the film presented as a secret screening at Fantastic Fest, I was right to worry. The way I see it, these are the cardinal sins of found footage […]
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Blu-ray/DVD Review: Bridesmaids and Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
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