As The Rolling Stones tumble into their fiftieth year, it's easy to be cynical about the aging band, as they desperately try to stay relevant, even as rock 'n roll has evolved and moved on. Oh sure, nostalgia will sell out stadiums, as will the fact that they are living legends, but it's...
Read More »Back in September, Marvel was getting ready to drop an elaborate box set, including all the Phase One films, housed in a fancy briefcase featuring a replica of the Tesseract (see above). But there was a small problem. The design of the briefcase was copyrighted by a German luggage company and the pa...
Read More »Man, you gotta love the wit and bite of Billy Wilder. It's hard to pick a best film from the great Austrian-born American filmmaker who made an indelible mark on Hollywood in the '40s, '50s and '60s, making major contributions to American cinema with "Some Like It Hot," "Stalag 13," “The Apartment,”...
Read More »While it was still a pain in my backside, being stuck in the house during Hurricane Sandy did provide me with an opportunity to catch up on some long-overdue DVD viewing. First up was the International Emmy-nominated TV series from Brazil, Filhos do Carnaval (Hijos del Carnaval), an HBO Latin ...
Read More »This week on DVD/Blu-ray: The altogether winning screenwriting debut of actress Zoe Kazan; one of the biggest crowd-pleasers at this year's Sundance Film Festival; a unique love story that's not to be missed; a documentary sure to win over the "So You Think You Can Dance?" crowd; and a horror classi...
Read More »This week on DVD/Blu-ray: Stanley Kubrick's oft-ignored feature debut, Kirby Dick's shocking expose on rape in the U.S. military, the latest from Danish troublemaker Mads Brügger, John Schlesinger's acclaimed follow-up to "Midnight Cowboy" and Steven Soderbergh's summe...
Read More »A new trailer for the "Quentin Tarantino XX" Blu-ray box set has debuted, and while it might look great on the outside, promising 5 hours of bonus features and more, what becomes clear is that this package is a bit of a missed opportunity with some odd choices of what to include.
Read More »Whether you loved the film, hated it or found yourself somewhere in the middle, there's no doubt that people are still talking about Ridley Scott's return to sci-fi with "Prometheus." And even months before the home video release, fans were digging for info on what deleted scenes would be included, ...
Read More »With Mark and Jay Duplass' comedy "The Do-Deca-Pentathlon" finally available on DVD and Blu-ray, four years after being completed, Indiewire and Apple are proud to host a live, in-person chat with Jay, some of the film's cast and the two brothers who inspired the film.
Read More »This week on DVD/Blu-ray: Whit Stillman's first film in 14 years(!!); a dirty Danish comedy that puts its American counterparts to shame; a relentless French actioner; a twisted thriller from David Fincher; and every 007 film, available for the first time in one massive collection.
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