Criterion | 1969 | 111 mins. | NR Based on the Barry Hines novel “A Kestrel for a Knave,” Kes is an unsentimental, provocative, and touching portrait of poverty, marginalization and despair. In the poor, working class coal mining town…
Paramount | 1990 | 680 mins. | NR Though Ken Burns’ 1990 epic documentary, The Civil War has been released on DVD at least twice before, the new “Commemorative Edition” is worth buy if you haven’t already done so. It’s…
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1971 | 181 mins. | G Opening in September of 1964, the Harold Prince production of Fiddler on the Roof was inarguably one of the most beloved stage musicals of the second half of the 20th century. Based…
Warner Bros. | 1961 | 168 mins. | PG-13 The second of producer Samuel Bronston’s big-gauge roadshow epics filmed in Spain, King of Kings (1961) is a tasteful rendering of the Christ story and was MGM’s follow-up to their phenomenally…
Criterion | 1970 | 141 mins, | PG The heist flick has been around almost as long as moving pictures. There so common, most directors follow a familiar formula: gather a group of thieves and give each one of them…
Image Entertainment | 2010 | 48 mins. | NR Whitney Cummings is a comedienne on the rise. She can be seen regularly on Chelsea Lately and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. I was introduced to her through the hilarious…
NEW YORK, April 12, 2011 – The foul-mouthed fourth-graders of “South Park” are back for their 15th season with seven all-new episodes beginning Wednesday, April 27 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on COMEDY CENTRAL.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (April 11, 2011) – Because too much is never enough, the boys from the hit movie Jackass 3D are at it again in JACKASS 3.5 THE UNRATED MOVIE debuting June 14, 2011 on DVD (nationwide) and on…
Criterion | 2009 | 105 mins. | NR Born in Paris and raised in colonial Africa, filmmaker Claire Denis studied in France and learned the art of moviemaking under directors like Jacques Rivette, Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders. Her debut…
Anchor Bay | 2010 | 118 mins. | R Easily one of the best films of 2010, The King’s Speech delivers solid drama and achieves its dramatic potential without sacrificing historical accuracy. Though the story revolves around mid-20th century British…