A&E | 2009 | 282 Mins. | Not Rated Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 were a big part of the soundtrack of my childhood. By the time I was old enough to remember, Michael had just released his first…
Criterion | 1956 | 95 mins. | Not rated | Mar 23, 2010 Nominated for Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life (1956) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion. Unavailable on home video until now,…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1995 | 81 mins. | Rated G Animation can be divided into two generations—before Toy Story and after Toy Story. By the mid 1990’s, computer animation was regularly used in traditionally animated films to aid…
Warner Bros | 1930 | 192 mins. | Not Rated By 1930, Robert L. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! syndicated newspaper panels had made him famous the world over. As a result, Warner Vitaphone decided to put him in front…
We are giving away three copies of the just released DVD, Brothers. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam (Tobey Maguire) is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named…
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 87 mins. | Rated PG Adapted from Roald Dahl’s book of the same name, Fantastic Mr. Fox is director Wes Anderson’s (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) first foray into full length stop-motion animation. Adapted for…
Warner Bros. | 1993 | 140 mins. | Not Rated I’ve been sitting here trying to come up with a clever way to describe Arizona Dream. In the end, I’ve decided it’s just one of those strange little films that…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 128 mins. | Rated PG-13 Based on a portion of Michael Lewis’ 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, The Blind Side strikes some as simply an overtly sentimental, manipulative tearjerker; the likes…
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 100 mins. | Rated PG-13 One of 2009’s critical darlings, An Education is a story reminiscent of an earlier time; one that’s purely character driven, utilizes no special effects and emphasizes style over substance. Nominated…
Warner Bros. | 1981 | 118 mins. | Not rated For many, 1981’s Clash of the Titans is best remembered as the last film of to feature stop-motion animation effects by living legend Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen had made a name…