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Criterion Collection: The Music Room [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
July 19, 2011In tone and theme, The Music Room is reminiscent of the later reels of Citizen Kane,...
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Criterion Collection: Beauty and the Beast [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
July 19, 2011"Influenced by the avant garde artists of the early 20th Century, Cocteau developed an eerie surrealistic...
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[Rec] 2 | DVD Review
July 12, 2011"Balaguero and Plaza have amped up the adrenaline and gore in the sequel, making for a...
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Criterion Collection: Naked [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
July 12, 2011While the film has a number of hilarious moments, it can only be considered a comedy...
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Criterion Collection: The Makioka Sisters [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
July 6, 2011"...Kon Ichikawa builds a flashpoint in the conflict between the staid traditions of Japanese culture and...
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Criterion Collection: Zazie dans le métro [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
June 28, 2011"As the film begins to scale up toward its monumental conclusion – and monumental is the...
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Criterion Collection: People on Sunday [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
June 28, 2011"In many ways a forerunner of today’s independent films, People on Sunday was created on a...
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Korkoro | DVD Review
June 14, 2011In Korkoro, Gatlif seems to have found his Sven Nykvist in cinematographer Julien Hirsch, who is...
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The Comancheros (50th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
June 7, 2011If one can tune out the film’s ugly socio-politics, The Comancheros can be appreciated as a...
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Tigerland [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
June 7, 2011"The film attempts to score some anti-war relevancy points in the late stages, as Paxton derisively...