Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by HBO Films, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I have never seen the groundbreaking 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family , but I have long been aware of it; it’s often cited as the first step American TV took toward the televised “reality” that’s proven as enduringly popular as it …
Topping this week’s DVD picks are a first-rate action film and a top-notch cable TV comedy.
Topping this week’s DVD picks are a first-rate action film and a top-notch cable TV comedy.
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) The Conquest From writer-director Xavier Durringer comes this fictionalized rendering of Nicolas Sarkozy’s five-year rise to the French presidency. Denis Podalydès is terrific as Sarkozy – he…
Goon This is a very funny, very lowdown comedy about a hockey goon (Seann William Scott) – a guy hired to beat up the other team – in the Canadian minor leagues. Well acted, cleverly written and vulgar beyond belief….
“The Cabin in the Woods” pays homage to a very specific kind of horror movie — young people getting picked off one by one in the middle of nowhere — while simultaneously upending those films’ conventions. Five friends go to a cabin in the woods.
LOS ANGELES, April 12 (UPI) — Steven Spielberg’s World War I epic “War Horse” is the top-selling DVD and Blu-ray in the United States, Rentrak reported Thursday.
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the creators of the Harold and Kumar franchise, recently directed American Reunion . In the latest installment of Morning Edition ‘s “Watch This” series, Steve Inskeep talks with the filmmakers about their picks for home entertainment.
“Lollipop Chainsaw” was one of the more popular booths at PAX East — and not just because of a real-life version of the video game’s heroine was there for most of the convention/
Image via CrunchBase In the world of consumer electronics, Sony was once, the name on the must have products. Not every idea was a winner… who remembers the 1980’s bitter battle between Sony’s Betamax and JVC’s VHS video systems