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In Bruges (Universal Studios)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, July 2, 2008
2008, Rated R Playwright Martin McDonagh's full-length feature debut stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as a pair of Irish hit men who are jettison to the sleepy medieval town of Bruges, Be  

Diary of the Dead (The Weinstein Co.)

DVD Review

0 Comments · Wednesday, June 11, 2008
2007, Rated R George A. Romero’s return to the zombie game after his uneven big-budget 2006 feature Land of the Dead finds the horror legend back in his own element. Diary of Dead is a fresh star  

King Corn (Docurama)

DVD Review

0 Comments · Wednesday, June 11, 2008
1982, Not Rated This lively, riveting documentary about our nation’s crazy agricultural policies starts off like a goof and slowly builds into both a devastating, muckraking commentary and a poet  

The Willow Tree (New Yorker Video)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 21, 2008
2005, Unrated Iranian director Majid Majidi creates a powerful and somber parable about sight and blindness with his stunning The Willow Tree. The tale succinctly follows the events that befall   

State Of Play (BBC Video)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 21, 2008
2003, Not Rated This tense, outstandingly acted 2003 BBC miniseries -- a political thriller that gets further inside the tough, neurotic, unsentimental world of hard-charging, scoop-chasing newsp  

Square Pegs: The Complete Series (Sony)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 21, 2008
1982, Not Rated Shortly after starring in Annie on Broadway, former Cincinnati resident Sarah Jessica Parker was cast as the co-lead in this CBS sitcom. The show centered on inelegant classmates   

The Bette Davis Collection (20TH Century Fox)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 7, 2008
1950-1965, Unrated The Bette Davis Collection opens with a two-disc Cinema Classics Collection edition of All About Eve that catches the legend at the height of her screen divahood. Writer/direct  

The Walker (Thinkfilm)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 7, 2008
2007, Rated R Paul Schrader steps back behind the camera after the rigmarole surrounding his entry in The Exorcist franchise to write and direct an equally sinister thriller set in Washington, D.  

Return Of The Living Dead Boys: Halloween 1986 (MVD Visual)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 7, 2008
2008, Not Rated Shot in suitably cruddy fashion from a video camera somewhere back in the audience at a concert at New York's Ritz, the look turns out to be a good fit for the music -- Rock with  

The Dragon Painter (New Yorker Video/Yorker Video/Milestone)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 23, 2008
1919, Not Rated Milestone's reputation for producing DVDs with the cinephile in mind solidifies with the release of The Dragon Painter, a once-lost silent classic that reintroduces film fandom   

There Will Be Blood (Paramount)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 23, 2008
2007, Rated R Paul Thomas Anderson's flawed yet fascinating epic is a supremely strange period piece that evokes a host of current cultural issues: our obsession with oil, the role of religion i  

Tell Me You Love Me (HBO)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 23, 2008
2007, Not Rated The first season of the HBO series Tell Me You Love Me examines the stories of three couples in therapy. There's the twentysomethings on the verge of marriage, standing on the le  

The Hands of Orlac (Kino)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 9, 2008
1924, Not Rated The 1924 psychological horror silent The Hands of Orlac isn't director Robert Weine and actor Conrad Veidt's best known collaboration -- that honor belongs to their pioneering p  

Radiant City (Koch Lorber)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 9, 2008
2006, Unrated Writers/directors Gary Burns and Jim Brown make use of their distinct backgrounds (Burns is a surrealist filmmaker, while Brown is a journalist) to upend our notions of suburbia. Ra  

Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ... And Insects (A&E)

Video and DVD

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 9, 2008
2007, Not Rated This hour-long documentary, originally aired on the Sundance Channel, allows longtime British singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock to show the sources for the eccentric worldview tha