DVD Review: Mama’s Boy
Diane Keaton has made some great films in a career that has spanned almost forty years. She won a Best Actress Oscar in 1978 for her role in Annie Hall and has been nominated for the coveted award on three other occasions. While Jon Heder lacks the Oscar pedigree of Diane Keaton, with Napoleon Dynamite […]
DVD Review: Numb
Admittedly, I was originally interested in watching Numb strictly because of the involvement of Friends star, Matthew Perry. I knew nothing about the films storyline or its writer/director, Harris Goldberg. Upon receiving the DVD, I decided to look up Harris Goldberg on IMDB.com. My heart sank when I realized he was responsible for writing The […]
DVD Review: Twister (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Twister is now one of my favorite pointless movies of all time. The plot is non-existent and the characters have absolutely no substance, but it doesn’t matter. The picture and sound on Warner Brothers’ recently released two-disc special edition will rock your home theater. As any DVD collector knows, you have to have a few […]
DVD Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Sometimes you come across the kind of movie that leaves you completely spent and emotionally drained but glad to have seen it–the film is the kind of movie you’d volunteer to go see over and over again, but you recommend it to all your friends. Schindler’s List did that to me back in 1993, and […]
DVD Review: P.S. I Love You
Hilary Swank’s recent film career is sort of like a championship runner; they either win the gold medal or finish completely out of the top three. In 2000, at the age of 26, Swank won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry. Hilary […]
DVD Review: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Special Edition
I’m very little! You cheat very big! –Short Round After the colossal success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Speilberg and George Lucas teamed up again in 1984, to create yet another Indiana Jones adventure. Maligned by fans and critics alike, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a much darker film than […]
DVD Review: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark – Special Edition
Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? –Indiana Jones On the beaches of Hawaii in the summer of 1977, George Lucas and “director for hire” Steven Spielberg decided to make an adventure movie that hearkened back to the old, cheaply made adventure serials of the 1930’s. George Lucas had a story idea for an adventurous […]
Movie Review: Surfwise
As a fan of documentary film, I have long admired the work of writer/director Doug Pray. His 2001 film, Scratch is still the best documentary on DJing I’ve ever seen, and Infamy, his feature-length documentary about graffiti culture was utterly fascinating. So, when I read a little blurb about Surfwise in Vanity Fair (the magazine’s […]
DVD Review: Juno
When Juno was released in December of 2007, I paid very little attention. Knee deep in the throes of yet another Christmas season, a movie about a pregnant teenager wasn’t registering very high on my must-see list. Though I was thoroughly amused by director Jason Reitman’s 2005 film, Thank You For Smoking, I just didn’t […]
DVD Review: Bette Davis Collection – Volume Three
In over one hundred years of film making, Hollywood has seen a lot of stars come and go. A lot of them burst on to the scene, make a few films and fade away as quickly as they appear. That’s how celebrity works a lot of the time; we worship someone for a few years […]