Disney / Buena Vista | 2010 | 123 min | PG Even those who don’t know anything about horse racing are likely to recognize the name Secretariat. Considered the greatest horse to ever circle the track, Secretariat left behind an…
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1980 | 129 mins. | R Released on Blu-ray for the first time in 2009, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull returns to high definition for its thirtieth anniversary with some additional special features. As I sit down to write…
Criterion | 1969 | 145 mins. NR Until ten days ago, I’d never seen Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (L’armée des Ombres). Made in 1969, it wasn’t widely seen in France and wasn’t released in the United States until 2006….
TV Land | 2010 | 215 mins. | NR Having grown up watching Valerie Bertinelli on One Day at a Time, and being a fan of fan of Betty White for as long as I can remember, meant that convincing…
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. – For sheer pageantry and spectacle, few motion pictures can claim to equal the splendor of renowned director Cecil B. DeMille’s (Ben Hur) 1956 epic THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. To commemorate the 55th anniversary of this beloved masterpiece, on…
Touchstone Pictures | 2010 | 107 mins. | PG-13 Clearly, time flies as we’ve already been graced with the third film in the Step Up series. Of course, since 3D is all the rage as of this writing, the film…
Eagle Rock | 1982 | 115 mins. | NR Having been available on Frank Zappa’s website for quite awhile, The Torture Never Stops has been licensed by Eagle Rock Entertainment and is now out and available on DVD. As any…
Miramax | 1992 | 94 mins. | PG If asked to describe director Australian director Baz Luhrmann in one word, I might use hyper-stylized—watching Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge and the epic Australia take you to a hyper-stylized universe where…
Paramount Pictures | 2010 | 114 mins. | PG-13 1998’s Le dîner de cons (The Dinner Game), a French film by Francis Veber, is a delight of farce and absurdity, choosing brevity for its levity, it delivers the premise while…
Paramount | 2010 | 109 mins. | R Given how so many Hollywood films portray children, it’s a wonder many people choose to become parents at all. Countless horror films have portrayed children as spawns of Satan, demons from the…