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Couch Potato: DVD Review: A Purge of Dissidents

(IPECAC)

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 30, 2007
2007, Not Rated Twisted animation with a raucous, cacophonous soundtrack, A Purge of Dissidents is the product of a unique collaboration between graphic artist Dalek and Noise Rock collective HAZ  

Couch Potato: DVD Review: Scarface: The Shame of a Nation

(Universal)

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 30, 2007
1932, Not Rated Comparisons are inevitable between Howard Hawks' 1932 gangster classic, Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, and Brian De Palma's 1983 remake, Scarface. As there should be. The stor  

Couch Potato: DVD Review: George Lopez Show

The Complete First and Second Seasons (Warner Home Video)

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 30, 2007
2002-03, Not Rated Taking a formula that powered The Drew Carey Show and making some adjustments, producer Bruce Helford (who also developed Carey's show) created a nearly equally successful veh  

Venus (Miramax)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
2006, Rated R Peter O'Toole earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in this touching, often very funny portrait of an aged British actor named Maurice who becomes smitten with a y  

Letters From Iwo Jima (Warner Home Video)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
2006, Rated R Clint Eastwood's admirable, often poetic, sometimes overbearing companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers presents the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view. But there  

The Untouchables: Season One, Volume One (Paramount)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
1959, Not Rated As The Sopranos reaches its conclusion, it's a useful time to reflect on how important the Mob -- and depictions of criminal violence in general -- has been to the development o  

Comedy of Power (Koch Lorber Films)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
2006, Not Rated The classical roots of comedy exist in tragedy and that is exactly what is missing from French master Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power. This tale, inspired by a true story of cor  

Tim Buckley: My Fleeting House (MDV Visual)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 16, 2007
2007, Not Rated Buckley, the handsome Folk/Rock/Jazz/Soul/avant-garde singer/songwriter of the late 1960s/early 1970s, had a mesmerizing, multi-octave voice and introspective, melancholy-tinged   

Twin Peaks: The Second Season (Paramount)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 25, 2007
1990-'91, Not Rated When filmmaker David Lynch wanted to continue on television the surreal, subconsciously pitched exploration of the underside of small-town life that he began in Blue Velvet,   

The Johnny Carson Show (Shout! Factory)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 28, 2007
1955, Not Rated Seven years before Johnny Carson took over The Tonight Show and became the king of late-night television, he had a short-lived prime-time comedy/variety show on CBS. It lasted but  

Color Me Kubrick (Magnolia)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 28, 2007
2005, Not Rated This is like a really slight, slapdash version of Borat. John Malkovich has a grand (-standing) old time as he dominates virtually every scene as Alan Conway, a gay, broke British  

Performance (Warner Home Video)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 7, 2007
1970, Rated R This perverse, hallucinatory and way-ahead-of-its-time look at the dark side of Britain's Pop Revolution of the 1960s -- an originally-X-rated flip side to the sexy giddiness of Bl  

Border Radio (Criterion Collection)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 21, 2007
1987, Rated R Allison Anders has directed two of the better movies made about the Rock & Roll lifestyle -- Grace of My Heart and Sugar Town. You can see just how deep her feel for the subject mat  

Blume In Love (Warner Home Video)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, February 7, 2007
1973, Rated R This is one of the best movies from one of the 1970s' finest and most underappreciated auteurs, Paul Mazursky. But it's a strange movie to release for the first time on DVD as par  

The Best of Hootenanny (Shout! Factory)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, January 17, 2007
1963-64, Not Rated This ABC television series has a near-mythic status as much because of its back-story as its content. Cashing in on the Folk revival of the time (which in many ways was more po