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| | RAGING BULL (1980) Praise MGM Home Entertainment for releasing Raging Bull (1980) on DVD in the manner it truly deserves; a double disc set with tons of extras, including directors’ commentary, and several making of featurettes that will... Date Posted: 2/8/2005 12:57:09 PM |
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| | CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981) I clearly remember being stunned, STUNNED, when Chariots of Fire (1981) won the Academy Award in 1981 over Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981) Date Posted: 2/8/2005 12:40:09 PM |
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| | THE KARATE KID COLLECTION In the mid-eighties, The Karate Kid (1984) was a solid box office hit amidst high profile blockbusters such as Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom... Date Posted: 2/7/2005 9:48:45 AM |
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| | THE CRYING GAME (1992) Date Posted: 2/7/2005 9:14:13 AM |
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| | NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977) In the days following the release of his dark and powerfully brilliant Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese was being hailed as the next great American filmmaker. In the heyday of the directors’ era, it seemed there was a great new director arriving every year... Date Posted: 2/7/2005 9:02:24 AM |
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| | RAY (2004) ominated for six Academy Awards including best picture, best director and best actor, Ray (2004) has become one of the most beloved films of the year. After its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.... Date Posted: 2/2/2005 12:00:09 PM |
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| | DEADWOOD Over the last ten years, HBO has produced some of the most astonishing, groundbreaking programs for television in the history of the medium. Beyond their extraordinary made for television... Date Posted: 2/2/2005 10:43:36 AM |
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| | THE WARNER GANGSTERS COLLECTION Warner Brothers Home Entertainment has done it again with yet another superb boxed set of great films from years gone by... Date Posted: 1/26/2005 9:30:46 AM |
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| | CATWOMAN (2004) Warner Brothers Home Entertainment has been the industry leader in bringing great films to DVD. There deluxe special editions of such classics as Citizen Kane (1941), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Unforgiven (1992), The Right Stuff (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Goodfellas (... Date Posted: 1/18/2005 12:50:52 PM |
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| | TROY(2004) Remember that Academy Award Gladiator (2000) won for best picture? This film is the direct result of that. Date Posted: 1/12/2005 3:23:11 PM |
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| | COLLATERAL Tom Cruise deserves an Academy Award, though with such fierce competition this year, he will not be in the running for best actor this year. Date Posted: 1/3/2005 12:34:57 PM |
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| | THE BEST ON DVD 2004 With DVD being a business onto itself, it seems only right that there be annual best list for the digital realm as well. Date Posted: 1/3/2005 10:27:26 AM |
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| | THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004) It took extraordinary courage for director Jonathan Demme to make the decision to remake the classic stud Date Posted: 12/21/2004 3:22:33 PM |
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| | THE ULTIMATE MATRIX COLLECTION Not being a huge fan of the films I approached this massive collection with a tinge of dread, Date Posted: 12/21/2004 3:09:28 PM |
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| | THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING EXTENDED EDITION One of the great disappointments of 2004 was that at the end of the year there would be no Lord of the Rings film from director Peter Jackson released in theatres. Date Posted: 12/7/2004 11:21:32 AM |
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| | THE ROCKY ANTHOLOGY From MGM Home Entertainment comes The Rocky Anthology; the saga of Rocky Balboa, the popular pugilist made famous by Sylvester Stallone in 1976, whose career path we have followed ever since. Date Posted: 12/6/2004 2:37:11 PM |
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| | WILD AT HEART (1990) On the heels of his cult classic Blue Velvet (1986) which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best director, David Lynch unleashed Wild at Heart ... Date Posted: 12/3/2004 3:06:15 PM |
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| | THE KING OF KINGS (1927) From Criterion DVD comes Cecil B. Demille's silent classic The King of Kings (1927), which cemented Demille's reputation as the greatest showman of his day. Largely forgotten and lost, this release offers Date Posted: 11/16/2004 3:01:43 PM |
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| | THE TERMINAL (2004) Tom Hanks is among the most likable men in the movie business, a man who commands enormous sums of money to appear in movies, yet who has..... Date Posted: 11/16/2004 8:02:56 AM |
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| | RAGTIME (1981) The year 1981 was dominated by Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Steven Spielberg's superb adventure film that brought to audiences a new hero named Indiana Jones...... Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:41:41 AM |
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| | THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY? (1969) Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1969, including best actress (Jane Fonda) and best director (Sydney Pollack) the film somehow was snubbed for a best picture nomination Date Posted: 11/11/2004 3:11:59 PM |
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| | THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT TRILOGY When Chicago (2002) won the Academy Award for best picture it was the first musical to do so in thirty four years, the last being Oliver! (1968). Through the sixties, West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965) all musicals won the Academy Award for best picture. The art form of musicals died through the seventies as audiences became disenchanted with the idea of characters bursting into song. Date Posted: 10/26/2004 9:35:03 AM |
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| | GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) Arguably the most famous film in movie history, Gone with the Wind (1939) gets the special treatment from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment, the undisputed leader in presenting classic films on DVD. Date Posted: 10/26/2004 9:31:39 AM |
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| | ED WOOD (1994) How ironic that one of the best films of the nineties was a biography of one of cinema’s worst directors, Ed Wood. After two false starts and two times being pulled from release, Ed Wood (1994) finally comes to DVD as one of the most sought after films to come to the digital realm. Date Posted: 10/25/2004 12:38:04 PM |
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| | THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) Of the great directors to emerge from the seventies directors era, no one is quite as under appreciated as Brian De Palma... Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:42:17 AM |
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| | SHARK TALE Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival as their first Gala Matinee, Shark Tale is an enjoyable romp that makes good use of the star voices used in the film Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:43:00 AM |
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| | THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) Has Roland Emmerich ever made a small film?... Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:43:14 AM |
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| | ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004) A motion picture masterpiece that is so original one feels giddy after seeing the picture.... Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:43:32 AM |
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| | THE HUNGER (1983) There was a time that Hollywood felt they could make a movie star out of rock star David Bowie.... Date Posted: 9/21/2004 11:14:50 AM |
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| | THX 1138 (1970) The story is told that Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas brought this film to the executives of Warner Brothers ... Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:43:54 AM |
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| | THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK SIGNATURE COLLECTION In another of their massive collections in the tradition of The Chaplin Collection Volume One, and The Chaplin Collection Volume Two, Warner Brothers Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:44:13 AM |
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| | THE STAR WARS TRILOGY The rush of seeing Star Wars (1977) for the first time in the late seventies in a crowded theatre is one of the most profound cinematic memories I have. Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:44:27 AM |
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| | ANGELS IN AMERICA(2003) Quite simply, Angels in America(2003) is the singular greatest achievement in the history of television. Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:44:40 AM |
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| | THE MARTIN SCORSESE COLLECTION Now to be fair, I believe any true collection of Scorsese’s work should contain Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995) and Gangs of New York (2002) but considering those titles are owned by other studios, I understand fully... Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:44:50 AM |
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| | THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004) Released in February this year, usually the dumping ground for films the studios do not know how to release, or bad films, The Passion of the Christ (2004) was released by Newmarket Films to coincide with Ash Wednesday, and though the ....... Date Posted: 8/13/2004 12:44:35 PM |
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| | GOODFELLAS (1990) One of the earliest releases on DVD, Goodfellas (1990) has been available as what has become laughingly known as a "flipper", meaning the DVD must be turned over to watch the film. Can there be any further insult to this masterpiece? Date Posted: 8/13/2004 11:22:07 AM |
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| | THE LOST BOYS (1987) There were two outstanding vampire films released in 1987, the first being this summer blockbuster from director Joel Schumacher, Date Posted: 8/12/2004 9:03:44 AM |
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| | FREAKS (1932) Banned and unavailable for years, Freaks (1932) one of the most original and alarming horror films of the thirties, is now available in a beautifully restored print from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment.... Date Posted: 8/11/2004 10:06:05 AM |
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| | THE SHOOTIST (1976) The era of the great Hollywood western ended with this quiet little masterpiece that Paramount Pictures had no idea how to market or release. I first saw The Shootist (1976) at a drive-in because that was the only screen playing the film in the sweltering summer of ’76 Date Posted: 7/28/2004 12:10:10 PM |
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| | PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (1981) The characters in Pennies from Heaven (1981) are a depressing lot, who in brilliant fantasy musical sequences come to life to be as vibrant as the Hollywood musicals..... Date Posted: 7/27/2004 11:56:20 AM |
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| | ZORBA THE GREEK (1964) Anthony Quinn had already won two Academy Awards for best supporting actor in Viva Zapata (1952) and Lust for Life (1956), when he found the role of a lifetime as a Greek peasant in Zorba the Greek (1964). His performance in Lust for Life (1956) as painter Paul Gauguin takes up..... Date Posted: 7/22/2004 8:19:12 AM |
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| | THE HUMAN STAIN (2003) Based on the best selling novel by Phillip Roth, The Human Stain (2003) revolves around ..... Date Posted: 7/21/2004 10:13:31 AM |
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| | TRAINSPOTTING (1996) Exploding with ferocious energy and vibrancy, Trainspotting (1996) was a major pop-culture phenomenon when first released. Already a major hit in Britain when it reached .... Date Posted: 7/19/2004 9:54:15 AM |
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| | STARSKY AND HUTCH (2004) Why the major studios insist on making feature films of long dead television series’ I have no idea. Is it about to stop? Not a chance. There are currently plans for Ving Rhames to assume the lollipop lovin’ Date Posted: 7/19/2004 9:46:43 AM |
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| | SOPHIE’S CHOICE (1982) In my opinion, the performance of Meryl Streep as Sophie, the tragic heroine of Sophie’s Choice (1982) is beyond astounding and the finest performance given by an actress in the history of the cinema. Streep is breathtaking as this doomed survivor of Auschwitz, living in Brooklyn..... Date Posted: 7/19/2004 9:42:15 AM |
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| | SHOWGIRLS (1993) What is it saying about a film when the handsome boxed set arrives with two shot glasses, a topless pin up, a set of nude shot lobby cards, a dark sleep mask, a deck of playing cards, and two pasties, which I assume are for use by female viewers after seeing Date Posted: 7/19/2004 9:34:06 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS # 14 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) This magnificent biography is considered by critics around the world to be among the five best films ever made. In my opinion, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962)... Date Posted: 7/19/2004 9:26:47 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #13 BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) One of the movies that led the Cultural Revolution within the film industry is this searing biography of depression bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow...... Date Posted: 7/19/2004 9:23:18 AM |
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| | The Classics #12 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) Imagine having to create a screenplay based on the massive book of the same title written by investigative reporters of the Washington Post... Date Posted: 7/19/2004 9:16:30 AM |
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| | THE FILM NOIR COLLECTION Heat and cigarette smoke. Concrete and night. Gleaming streets freshly cleansed with night rain, an obvious metaphor of was Date Posted: 7/14/2004 6:05:18 PM |
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| | THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (2003) Armed with Canada's first ever Academy Award for best foreign language film, the Genie Awards for best Canadian film, prizes at Cannes 2003, the adoration of film critics and audiences from a... Date Posted: 7/14/2004 5:55:37 PM |
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| | THE DREAMERS (2004) The Dreamers (2004) arrives on DVD this week, one of the most criminally under seen and under appreciated films of the last ten years. Whenever Bernardo Bertolucci makes a film it is an event worth Date Posted: 7/14/2004 5:44:00 PM |
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| | KOTCH (1971) In 1971 to was rather uncommon for an actor to direct a feature film. Charles Laughton had done so with The Night of the Hunter (1955), John Wayne had helmed The Alamo (1960) and later The Green Berets (1968), Date Posted: 7/12/2004 9:53:12 AM |
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| | THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986) Sean Connery brings a sad nobility to his best....... Date Posted: 7/7/2004 8:57:34 AM |
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| | THE SNOW WALKER (2003) An outstanding Canadian film that first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, The Snow Walker is a masterful film directed by Charles Martin Smith, best known to film audiences for his performance as Terry the Toad in George Lucas’ American .... Date Posted: 7/6/2004 9:35:35 AM |
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| | THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (1965) In the wake of the recent box office success of Mel Gibson’s searing The Passion of the Christ (2004); MGM Home Entertainment is re-releasing their epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Date Posted: 6/29/2004 12:08:08 PM |
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| | The Classics #11 APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX (2001) After first seeing Apocalypse Now (1979) at the now destroyed University Theatre on Bloor Street in 1979, I stumbled .... Date Posted: 6/29/2004 11:55:45 AM |
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| | BAD SANTA (2003) or BADDER SANTA (2004) Black comedy is among the forms of comedy, very likely the most difficult and most under appreciated. There exists audiences who are offended by the taboo topics tackled by black comedy, but if done properly, I find it to be the funniest form of comedy in existence. Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:47:12 AM |
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| | COLD MOUNTAIN Though nominated for seven Academy Awards last year, Renee Zellweger taking home best supporting actress for her performance as Ruby, Cold Mountain (2003) never really found the audience it deserved, either.... Date Posted: 6/25/2004 6:56:26 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS # 10 THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) A rare case of the sequel actually being superior to the first film, The Godfather Part II (1974) is, in my opinion, quite simply the most astonishing film ever made. Date Posted: 6/24/2004 7:11:39 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #9 NIXON (1995) The hallmark of a great film biography is whether or not the filmmaker possesses the courage to go all the way and show his subject as a human being, warts and all Date Posted: 6/24/2004 7:01:08 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS # 8 AMERICAN GRAFITTI (1973) Responsible for the nostalgia craze of the seventies which would see a renewed popularity in music from the fifties and sixties as well as clothing, not to mention a popular television series called Happy Days, American Graffiti ... Date Posted: 6/24/2004 6:55:27 AM |
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| | MY LIFE WITHOUT ME (2003) Sarah Polley's luminous performance in this small, heartfelt film won her a Genie Award for best actress and attracted a great deal of attention in the United States Date Posted: 6/24/2004 6:46:01 AM |
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| | HEARTBURN (1986) The problem with Heartburn (1986), and there are so many to mention, is that the actors are not given characters to portray, but instead stereotypical characters in a marriage gone wrong.... Date Posted: 6/18/2004 9:38:44 AM |
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| | MYSTIC RIVER (2003) Quietly through over the course of the last three decades, actor Clint Eastwood has become one of the great American filmmakers. From The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), through Bird (1988), his Oscar winning Unforgiven (1992) and adult love story The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and finally Mystic River (2003) Date Posted: 6/15/2004 1:13:22 PM |
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| | COPLAND (1997) There was a time when Sylvester Stallone was being compared to the likes of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the next great American actor. His performance as boxer Rocky Balboa in Rocky Date Posted: 6/14/2004 7:32:22 AM |
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| | THE ROBOCOP TRILOGY From MGM Home Entertainment comes the Robocop trilogy, packaged as a lavish collection with crisp re-mastered prints of each film Date Posted: 6/14/2004 7:28:21 AM |
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| | NORMAL (2002) Made for HBO television, Normal (2002) is among the most powerful and deeply moving love stories I have ever seen. Date Posted: 6/11/2004 12:15:17 PM |
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| | THE TARZAN COLLECTION Before he was a movie star, Johnny Weissmuller was a five time gold medal swimmer at the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928, snapped up by Hollywood after they saw him in several sports shorts. Cast as Tarzan...... Date Posted: 6/8/2004 7:57:06 AM |
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| | THE WEST WING - SEASON TWO There are very few things I watch with any loyalty or regularity on television. I loathe sitcoms, despise variety programs, and consider hockey the only sport worth watching..... Date Posted: 6/8/2004 7:51:04 AM |
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| | THE TIN DRUM (1979) To see The Tin Drum (1979) in the late seventies if you lived in Ontario, you had to drive to Quebec or Buffalo because the Nazis known as the Ontario Censor Board decided to ban the film. Date Posted: 6/3/2004 2:08:49 PM |
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| | THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1975) After winning the Academy Award for best director for Midnight Cowboy (1969), for a short time John Scheslinger could do very little wrong in Hollywood. In 1975 he took the helm of The Day of the Locust (1975), ........... Date Posted: 6/3/2004 1:53:17 PM |
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| | ANGEL HEART (1987) Released in 1987 in a storm of controversy, audiences and many critics saw only the storm and missed the fact that Angel Heart (1987) was a superior thriller. Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:50:09 AM |
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| | MONSTER (2003) Great actors often discuss in hushed tones the “genre of the truth” that governs the manner in which great actors work. Nothing matters more to them than the truth of the character...... Date Posted: 5/31/2004 12:32:37 PM |
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| | THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING The winner of a record tying eleven Academy Awards is now on DVD, a celebration of one of the greatest film events in the history of the cinema, and bittersweet because the event has come to a close. Date Posted: 5/26/2004 11:44:21 AM |
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| | WYATT EARP (1994) Kevin Costner, it should be noted, brought the western genre back from the dead with his Academy Award winning Dances with Wolves (1990) which earned Oscars for best picture and best director for Costner Date Posted: 5/26/2004 9:36:41 AM |
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| | THE CRUCIBLE (1996) 20th Century Fox was profoundly confident of the film version of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible (1996) so much so that in the fall preview issue of Entertainment Weekly, a Fox representative was quoted as saying the film will be nominated “in every category for the Academy Awards… Date Posted: 5/19/2004 3:17:41 PM |
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| | THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966) Hailed by Robert Rodriguez as “pure cinema”, Sergio Leone’s massive epic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) remains one of the first spaghetti westerns, meaning of course an American genre shot with a European sensibility Date Posted: 5/19/2004 2:54:32 PM |
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| | TOMORROW (1972) Robert Duvall was still relatively unknown in 1972 despite glowing reviews for his performances in To Kill a Mockingbird (1972) and M*A*S*H (1970). Date Posted: 5/17/2004 10:57:23 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS # 7 THE GODFATHER (1972) Previously available only to consumers in the superb The Godfather Collection from Paramount Home Entertainment, the Oscar winning classic is now available for the first time on its own Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:47:59 AM |
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| | SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) 60 ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY SPECIAL EDITION The first time I screened Steven Spielberg’s extraordinary war epic Saving Private Ryan (1998) was very early in the morning at the old Uptown Theatre on Yonge Street in Toronto. Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:48:14 AM |
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| | THE SUNSHINE BOYS (1975) As I mentioned a short time ago while reviewing the recent DVD release of The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975),..... Date Posted: 5/4/2004 11:02:15 AM |
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| | THE HAMMER HORROR COLLECTION Once again Warner Brothers Home Entertainment proves to be the leader in the industry when it comes to bringing classic cinema to the digital real. Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:53:09 AM |
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| | MAN OF LA MANCHA (1972) On the stage, Man of La Mancha comes vividly to life as a memory play within a play Date Posted: 4/29/2004 11:10:13 AM |
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| | MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003) Peter Weir’s masterful Master and Commander was nominated for a total of ten Academy Awards including best picture and best director. Date Posted: 4/20/2004 9:12:52 AM |
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| | THE LAST SAMURAI (2003) Cruise gives one of his best performances as Civil War hero, Nathan Algren, Date Posted: 4/19/2004 2:29:07 PM |
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| | THE JUDY GARLAND SIGNATURE COLLECTION Judy Garland was among the most gifted performers to come out of the Hollywood studio system. Though not necessarily a great actress, she was a born entertainer and gamely went at any assignment she was given. Date Posted: 4/19/2004 10:42:12 AM |
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| | KILL BILL VOLUME ONE (2003) It is thrilling cinema, art in a manner one would not expect, and in the grand tradition of the Japanese action film, leaves the audience breathless but panting for more. Date Posted: 4/19/2004 10:17:06 AM |
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| | THE ALAMO (1960) To coincide with the release of the new film The Alamo, currently in theatres though suffering under the attack of scathing reviews, MGM Home Entertainment has re-issued The Alamo (1960), John Wayne’s epic film. Date Posted: 4/19/2004 9:32:30 AM |
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| | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) The film is both a deft social study of the sexism of the time, a ribald comedy and a strong film about commitment and belonging. Date Posted: 4/19/2004 9:17:01 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #6 THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) Lying in a hospital bed in 2001, recovering from massive injuries sustained in a head on collision, I watched The Wizard of Oz (1939) on the tiny television close to my bed. It was Easter Sunday, my wife and daughters had just left and I decided to watch this beloved film Date Posted: 4/19/2004 9:00:18 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #5 CITIZEN KANE (1941) Film critics and scholars revere Citizen Kane (1941) as do I, but it is not the greatest film ever made. It is certainly among them, Date Posted: 4/19/2004 8:56:33 AM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #4 JAWS (1975) Spielberg's first great film remains one of his finest; a masterpiece of suspense and tension beautifully merged with adventure and horror, Jaws (1975) is among the great thrillers ever made. Date Posted: 4/12/2004 9:54:33 AM |
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| | THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) Alongside The Sound of Music (1965) and Rebecca (1940), this is the worst film tot ever win an Academy Award for best picture of the year. Date Posted: 4/5/2004 10:43:34 AM |
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| | HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG (2003) One of last year’s best films, which was oddly largely snubbed by the Academy when it came to nominations. Many considered this film to be Dreamworks big Oscar picture, but somehow it slipped through the cracks. Date Posted: 4/12/2004 1:34:59 PM |
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| | THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS Having never been a fan of either The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003) or Keanu Reeves, I confess that I might be the wrong person to review The Matrix Revolutions (2003), the last of the trilogy. Date Posted: 3/30/2004 9:38:34 AM |
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| | ROOM WITH A VIEW (1986) – Special Edition One of the most beloved and romantic films of the last twenty years, A Room With a View (1986) gets the deluxe double disc treatment from Warner Brothers, which for fans of the film is a treat Date Posted: 3/31/2004 11:59:39 AM |
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| | GOTHIKA While I admired the look and certainly the performances of Gothika (2003), a sometimes genuinely scary thriller now on DVD from Warner Brothers, Date Posted: 3/25/2004 10:46:17 AM |
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| | THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE (1974) Neil Simon is perhaps the best known playwright of the last forty years. While Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible) and Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire) have created works that will last the ages, Simon created comedies that attracted audiences, which means a long run on Broadway, Date Posted: 3/25/2004 10:39:24 AM |
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| | SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE One of last year’s biggest hits gets the digital treatment next week as Something’s Gotta Give (2003) comes to DVD Date Posted: 3/24/2004 11:48:04 AM |
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| | THE DRESSER (1983) Years before Ron Harwood collected an Academy Award for writing The Pianist (2002), Roman Polanski’s superb Holocaust drama, he wrote a play which he then adapted into the film The Dresser (1983) Date Posted: 3/23/2004 4:31:25 PM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #3 THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) About to be released on DVD for the first time, John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath (1940) was among the first great “message” films Date Posted: 3/23/2004 3:24:41 PM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #2 ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) This is the second of a weekly series of reviews of classic films now available on DVD. Since the advent of home entertainment, be it VHS or BETA tapes, laserdiscs, and now the incredible DVD format, the past two decades have allowed an entire generation of audience to become better educated cinematically. It astounds me that so many young people have seen silent films, but more importantly is the fact that these great works are now available to them Date Posted: 4/12/2004 1:35:38 PM |
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| | THE CLASSICS #1, THE SEARCHERS (1956) This is the first of a weekly series of reviews of classic films now available on DVD. Since the advent of home entertainment, be it VHS or BETA tapes, laserdiscs, and now the incredible DVD format, the past two decades have allowed an entire generation of audience to become better educated cinematically. It astounds me that so many young people have seen silent films, but more importantly is the fact that these great works are now available to them Date Posted: 3/11/2004 10:03:13 AM |
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| | THE CHAPLIN COLLECTION VOLUME TWO Charlie: The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin (2003) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and was later screened at the Montreal World Film Festival to great acclaim. Date Posted: 3/1/2004 12:25:24 PM |
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| | SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) Perhaps the most acclaimed and honoured film of its time, Schindler’s List (1993) finally arrives on DVD next month making it the last of Spielberg’s great works to arrive in the digital forma Date Posted: 2/23/2004 5:20:24 PM |
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| | THE MISSING Oddly enough, despite being one of the cinema’s most popular filmmakers, and a recent Academy Award winner, audiences stayed away in droves from The Missing (2003) which I thought was among the year’s best films. Date Posted: 2/20/2004 1:36:47 PM |
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| | MATCHSTICK MEN (2003) Nicolas Cage remains one of the great modern actors of cinema, an actor who brings purity to each performance that is the mark of a true artist. Date Posted: 2/19/2004 7:49:13 AM |
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| | MY FAIR LADY (1964) Date Posted: 2/9/2004 10:58:53 PM |
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| | THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) This is the film that forever hooked me on movies. As hokey as it sounds, (and it does) this old picture galvanized me, forever changing the way I looked at film and the manner in which I viewed movies Date Posted: 2/2/2004 2:16:22 PM |
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| | INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (2003) I like George Clooney as an actor. In my humble opinion, Clooney is both a genuine film artist and movie star, something of a rarity in the business these days Date Posted: 2/2/2004 2:21:40 PM |
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| | THE INGMAR BERGMAN COLLECTION For years recognized as a dominant force in Swedish cinema and theatre, Ingmar Bergman has the rare distinction of being one the genuine geniuses of modern film, a man who has consistently created groundbreaking and innovative films that stir.... Date Posted: 2/16/2004 2:56:21 PM |
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| | PLANET OF THE APES (1968) This 35th anniversary edition of the now classic science fiction thriller is a superb DVD for collectors and fans of the film; however, I do question the fairness of Fox Home Entertainment in releasing yet another DVD of this film Date Posted: 2/9/2004 10:58:39 PM |
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| | RAIN MAN (1988) MGM Home Entertainment is about to release this special edition of Rain Man (1988) one of the most popular films of the eighties, and winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor (Dustin Hoffman), best director Date Posted: 1/28/2004 9:48:57 AM |
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| | ONE FROM THE HEART (1982) Though critically reviled when released theatrically in 1982, Coppola’s One From the Heart (1982) is now something of a curious lost masterwork from the great filmmaker Date Posted: 1/29/2004 10:45:01 AM |
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| | THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST (1988) This quiet little film opened in late 1988 and despite low box office figures went on to win the New York Film Critics Award for best picture, which was something of a shock in the industry that year. Date Posted: 1/18/2004 10:48:00 PM |
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| | DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (1962) Date Posted: 1/18/2004 10:47:50 PM |
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| | SEABISCUIT (2003) Date Posted: 1/18/2004 10:47:39 PM |
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| | INDIANA JONES THUNDERS ONTO DVD The Indiana Jones trilogy one of the greatest adventure films ever made. Date Posted: 12/8/2004 11:50:58 AM |
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| | THE ALIEN QUADRILOGY Fox Home Entertainment has outdone themselves with this nine disc collection of the Alien films. Date Posted: 1/9/04 1:44:59 AM |
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