BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: PalmMSRP: $24.99 RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 109 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Cast and crew interviews• Behind-the-scenes featurette• Original Korean trailer• Music video• Trailers for other Palm features• DVD-ROM weblinks Park Chan-wook is justly famous these days for directing Oldboy, his third feature. Oldboy is part of Park’s Vengeance Trilogy, which was begun … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: MiramaxMSRP: $29.99 RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 95 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: "Anatomy of a Scene" featurette In a sophomore literature class at college, I had my first experience with Charlotte Perkins’ novel The Yellow Wallpaper. The critical geniuses in that class came in ready to discuss how crazy the protagonist was, how … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $19.97RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 99 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Theatrical trailer• “The Day of the Director” featurette The Pitch "It’s Gene Hackman playing a quietly desperate investigator. Hey, it worked for Coppola and Friedkin!" The Humans Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, young James Woods, pubescent Melanie Griffith. The … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: MiramaxMSRP: $29.99RATED: PGRUNNING TIME: 95 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: None The Pitch "It’s like every other Victorian social drama, but Emma Thompson’s not involved with it." The Humans Rufus Sewell, Emily Woof, Polly Walker. The Nutshell Emily Woof is Grace Melbury, the daughter of a middle-class timber merchant on the moors … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner BrothersMSRP: $19.98 RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 103 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Featurette: "From the Ukelele to the Strat"• Featurette: "The Making of Dolly Dagger"• Additional concert performance Here’s a revelation for you: Jimi Hendrix may not have been human. In that subset of humanity composed of musicians, he was revered by … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: UniversalMSRP: $39.98 RATED: NR RUNNING TIME: Approx. 15 hrsSPECIAL FEATURES: None When CSI first hit the air, I remember the pitches my friends would make to me in their evangelical fervor for the show. "It’s like Sherlock Holmes," they would tell me. "The clues come out of nowhere!" I, … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: RogueMSRP: $29.98 RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 88 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Two feature-length commentaries• Pop-up trivia• Deleted scene w/ commentary• Bonus featurettes Seed of Chucky marks the first time founding writer of the franchise Don Mancini has taking up the directorial reins. It’s not a bad fit; Mancini created the character of … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DimensionMSRP: $29.99 RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 99 Mins.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Selected commentary by special effects supervisor Greg Nicotero and actor Derek Mears• Making-of featurette• Special effects featurette• Editing featurette• "Becoming a Werewolf" spoof documentary Read Russ’s review of the theatrical cut here. A good horror movie is a cautionary tale, confronting … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Warner Bros. MSRP: $19.97 RATED: Unrated RUNNING TIME: 105 mins. SPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary w/ filmmaker Peter Bogdanovish/Audio excerpt from Fritz Lang• Theatrical Trailer The fifties were a good decade for noir. The public called for irony in their protagonists, wounded men and women who nevertheless were able to … Continue reading
It’s seems to be hard to find an audience for a Western these days. Unless your name is Costner or Howard, Hollywood‘s not going to have anything to do with you. Western novels have become a niche market for publishers, relegated to a tiny rack in the rear of the local Fred Meyer. The other … Continue reading