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Liberal Arts | Blu-ray Review
In Josh Radnor’s charming sophomore feature, Liberal Arts, the actor/director/writer recognizes that many adult males in their mid-thirties glide through their lives half awake, half confused, yearning for the freedom and potential of their
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Sleepwalk With Me | Blu-ray Review
Marking a potentially monumental pivot point in his already eclectic career, stand-up comedian turned actor/director/producer/screenwriter Mike Birbiglia has taken his personal tale of failed relationships, comedic development, and serious sleep disorders from the stage
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V/H/S | DVD Review
Brad Miska, who runs bloody-disgusting.com, sees his fair share of horror successes and failures. It’s pretty safe to say that he knows what works and what doesn’t within the genre. So when he came
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Criterion Collection: The Qatsi Trilogy | Blu-ray Review
The Qatsi Trilogy is a collection of films made by Godfrey Reggio between 1983 and 2002. Each film offers an extraordinary and unforgettable cinematic experience, and their messages are, astonishingly, even more pertinent and
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Criterion Collection: Purple Noon | Blu-ray Review
Remade forty years later as The Talented Mr. Ripley, René Clément’s Purple Noon from 1960 was the first attempt to bring amorphic rogue Tom Ripley, the subject of a series of popular crime novels
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Manufactured Landscapes | Blu-ray Review
Edward Burtynsky has for decades been lensing large scale photographs that document the often devastating visual impact of humans on our environment en masse. The wide angle landscapes he frames are almost always the
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eXistenZ | Blu-ray Review
Even more pertinent today than it was back at its release in 1999, eXistenZ (Berlin Film Festival – Silver Berlin Bear winner) finds David Cronenberg exploring familiar thematics of humanity’s often disturbing relationship with
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Criterion Collection: Trilogy of Life Blu-Ray
His life tragically and brutally cut short by a still unknown assassin, Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last completed project, known as the Trilogy of Life, gets the master treatment from Criterion this month,
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Burning Man | DVD Review
Tragically overlooked by much of the Western cinematic consciousness this passed year, Burning Man came to be one of the biggest films of the year in its home country of Australia, taking the Awgie
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Criterion Collection: Weekend | Blu-ray Review
Weekend capped Jean-Luc Godard’s insanely productive year of 1967, and can rightly be considered the director’s Götterdämmerung. Both projects make their respective points with sledgehammer subtlety, and along with Godard’s previous features that year,
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Abraham Lincoln | Blu-ray Review
Capitalizing on the latest biopic of the sixteenth United States President with this month’s release of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Kino releases a mastered HD restoration of D.W. Griffith’s 1930 film, Abraham Lincoln. Serving as
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Die Nibelungen | Blu-ray Review
This month, one of Fritz Lang’s first epic masterpieces, Die Nibelungen gets a lush Blu-ray treatment from Kino, and it has to be one of the most exciting remasters of the year. Sandwiched in-between
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The Day He Arrives | DVD Review
Hong Sangsoo remains an enigma of South Korean cinema. While Park Chan-wook, Kim Ji-woon and a host of copy cat directors fill big box theaters with copious amounts of violence and stylized shock tactics
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Patton | Blu-ray Review
When you are the only General ever feared by the Nazis in World War II you can expect to have an equally epic story to be told about you. The new re-release of George
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Natural Selection | Blu-ray Review
Natural Selection, Robbie Pickering’s raw exploration of bible belt secrecy, proves to be an impressive debut for the Texas born director. Taking home a quartet of awards from SXSW last year, the film finds
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Take This Waltz | Blu-ray Review
Despite a reasonably active acting career, Sarah Polley has put together quite an elegant little list of writing/directing credits for her already lengthy resume. Last year, her film Take This Waltz debuted at TIFF
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Criterion Collection: Rosemary’s Baby | Blu-ray review
Just in time for Halloween, Criterion has remastered what’s long been culturally considered one of the most notable pieces of horror film making in cinematic history, the eerie classic, Rosemary’s Baby. Standing as not
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Fear and Desire | Blu-ray Review
You will find little to no argument among cinephiles that Stanley Kubrick was one of the best filmmakers there ever was, but before he cemented his place in history with the dual mindfuck of
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Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection | Blu-ray Review
Bond. James Bond. Synonymous with pop corn and over the top, ridiculous, mucho suave fun. We’ve come to know him through six iconic suave masters (some more than others) in Sean Connery, George Lazenby,
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The Penalty (1920) | Blu-ray Review
Lon Chaney fans can revel in Kino’s Blu-ray transfer of The Penalty, featuring one of the thousand faces that first catapulted the extremely talented performer into one of the most celebrated careers in film
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Exorcism and Female Vampire | Blu-ray Review
This month, Redemption films brings us two remastered Blu-Ray HD transfers of cult sexploitation director, Jess Franco, both starring his wife, and umm, f*ck muse, Lina Romay. The first, Female Vampire (aka Erotikill, 1973),
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Shut Up And Play The Hits | Blu-ray Review
At the pinnacle of the band’s critical and financial success, the decision to lay LCD Soundsystem to rest was and remains a conundrum. James Murphy, the creative mind behind the band, started making music
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Criterion Collection: The Forgiveness of Blood | Blu-ray Review
Joshua Marston, the director of the 2004 Oscar nominated Maria Full of Grace finally returns with his next feature length narrative, the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay winning (2011 Berlin International Film Festival)
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Oslo, August 31st | DVD Review
Norwegian director Joachim Trier is known to some as the other Trier, the one making equally inquisitively bold films as his distant relative Lars, but with much less animosity for the human race and
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Monsieur Lazhar | DVD Review
Writer and director Philippe Falardeau’s most recent film (in many books the Best Foreign picture runner-up), Monsieur Lazhar is a surprisingly tender reconnaissance of our current educational practices while plunging headlong into the psychology
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