Also In This Week on DVD … April 29th Edition
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Archive: April, 2008
New Releases – Week of April 22, 2008
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weekly new releases
What’s new this week on DVD? Charlie Wilson’s War Cloverfield The Savages The Orphanage Starting Out in the Evening My Boy Jack
Read MoreCHARLIE WILSON’S WAR – Reviewed by Bruce
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drama, movie reviews, recommendations
Directed with marvellous verve and wit by the irrepressible Mike Nichols (now 76), Charlie Wilson’s War is based on a true historical event during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the early 1980′s. I must admit that, despite being a daily devotee of The New York Times for the past 25 years, I had never [...]
Read MoreCLOVERFIELD – Reviewed by Will
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action/adventure, movie reviews, recommendations, sci-fi / fantasy
I wouldn’t suggest sitting too close to the screen when you watch this movie. If you’ve seen The Blair Witch Project, you’ll know what I mean. Presented as the uninterrupted playback from a handheld camcorder recovered by the U.S. Military from the “area formerly known as Central Park”, Cloverfield follows a small group of Manhattan [...]
Read MoreTHE SAVAGES – Reviewed by Bruce
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comedy, drama, movie reviews, recommendations
I have inside information that the only reason Philip Seymour Hoffman acts in the occasional Mission Impossible 3 is to keep his market price up. And this is to his credit, for what great art doesn’t necessitate subsidization? Michelangelo suffered the Pope breathing down his neck with inane demands for years, Beethoven wrote pompous war [...]
Read MoreMY BOY JACK – Reviewed by Will
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drama, movie reviews
It kind of tickles me that British actor David Haig‘s original motivation for playing Rudyard Kipling was his being told by his friends that he looked just like him. Eventually, he decided to write a stage play about Kipling’s son’s enlistment in the British Army during World War I. One of the great contemporary apologists [...]
Read MoreNew from the BBC – April 2008 Edition
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news & features
Some great titles have found their way from the BBC to DVD over the past couple months, including two solid new Jane Austen adaptations which were just broadcast here in the States on PBS’ Masterpiece Theater (now just ‘Masterpiece‘, apparently). Also in is the fourth season of the popular drama series Wire In the Blood [...]
Read MoreTHE ORPHANAGE – Reviewed by David
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horror, movie reviews, recommendations, suspense/thrillers
Pay no attention to the efforts of the people behind this film’s DVD box who plaster Guillermo del Toro‘s name prominently on the front. For this beautifully spooky Spanish fright flick, the Pan’s Labyrinth director merely plays producer. Like Pan’s and The Devil’s Backbone, it centers on children and the horrors both real and ghostly [...]
Read MoreSTARTING OUT IN THE EVENING – Reviewed by Bruce
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drama, movie reviews, recommendations
Adapted from Brian Morton‘s superb novel, Starting Out In The Evening delineates the generation gap in a very New Yorkish, nostalgic way. Frank Langella, in a fearless performance that surely is a career high point, plays a fairly obscure novelist from a New York society that has disappeared. Lauren Ambrose, of ‘Six Feet Under’ fame, [...]
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