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…
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. | 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…
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…
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2009 | 127 mins. | Rated R Arguably one of the best known documentary filmmakers in the western world, Michael Moore is a man who stirs up strong emotions. People tend to love or hate…
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 127 mins. | Rated R Director Pedro Almodóvar has clearly found his muse in Penélope Cruz; after working together in Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Volver, the two teamed up again for Broken…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 101 mins. | Rated PG As a child, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was a regular part of my bedtime reading routine. As a matter of fact, it was one of the first…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 97 mins. | Rated G In recent years, Disney has found itself playing catch up with the mighty PIXAR when it comes to animated films. While the ‘House of Mouse’ has put out…
Sony Pictures | 2003 | 117 mins. | Rated PG-13 Mona Lisa Smile is one of those movies you can’t help but watch and wonder what might have been. When I was tempted to refer to the film as Dead…