The film so controversial that it couldn’t release in U.S. theatres is now available on DVD on April 3, 2007. If you didn’t hear about it, Death of a President styles itself as a documentary about the 10/19/07 assassination of current president George W. Bush. It’s a provocative choice of subject matter no […]

Now available on DVD, the Comedy Central roast of William Shatner is billed as uncut and uncensored. If you saw the broadcast version, most of the words bleeped out were easy enough to infer even without lip reading, so little was lost. Therefore what repeat viewers would be seeking here is the materials […]

Das Leben der Anderen
This film won the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, beating heir apparent Pan’s Labyrinth. It is visually and narratively much more conventional (and non-violent) than that film, and only as political as is required for the plot. It takes place in East Germany in 1984, about 5 years before […]

After a testosterone-crumbling introduction, The Holiday settles in to become a surprisingly thoughtful, sweet, sad, funny, well-written movie. The premise is simple: two lovelorn women switch houses over the Christmas holidays to escape their problems. What happens after that is the stuff of older movies, back when movies overall were better – […]

No, it’s not the recent release a.k.a. I Once Had A Life starring Jon Voigt, but the Buster Keaton silent classic. Since it’s not in wide re-release, basically this is a “Go rent this movie” kind of review. I was fortunate enough to see it on the biggish screen with Guy Forsythe’s live […]

Full Price Feature
What appears to be an exercise in desperate stunt casting (Will Farrell! Emma Thompson! Dustin Hoffman! Queen Latifah! Maggie Gyllenhaal!) is in fact a lovely little art film that is truly using the best actor for the role. If you haven’t seen the preview two zillion times, Ferrell […]

If you haven’t seen the Borat segments on the Ali G show (created by star Sacha Baron Cohen), then describing the alchemy that Borat does is necessary here to explain the rest of the review. Borat, a Khazakh journalist, insinuates himself into situations with a group of people under the pretext of an interview for […]

Aardman Animation is best known for their amazing and innovative claymation work, such as Chicken Run and the Wallace and Gromit films. Flushed Away was done with computer animation instead of painstaking stop motion, largely due to the practical concerns of animating with so much water, but it loses none of the fabled Aardman […]

Comparisons to 2005’s film Capote are both inevitable and necessary - both films deal with Truman Capote’s fascination with murderers Dick Hickock and especially Perry Smith, and writing his novel about the murders, In Cold Blood. I must say it’s impossible to describe how deeply and vitally different these films are from each other.
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When Princess Diana met her untimely death in Paris in 1997, having divorced the Prince and living a new life with Dodi Fayed, the Royal Family was curiously silent. While Britain and the world mourned openly a woman they had come to embrace even more passionately than the Royals, her surviving former in-laws holed […]