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A collection of 14 posts

On DVD & Blu-Ray

On DVD & Blu-ray, 9/13/11: 'Thor,' 'Meek's Cutoff,' More

THOR (DVD/Two-Disc Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Combo/Three-Disc Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Combo) The penultimate pre-Avengers Marvel franchise hit like a thunderbolt! Well, a severe summer shower at least. Chris Hemsworth (Papa Kirk from Abrams’ Star Trek) plays the titular Thunder God, an impetuous and brash young

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On DVD & Blu-ray, 8/2/11: 'Better Off Dead,' 'Conan the Barbarian'

BETTER OFF DEAD (Blu-ray) “I want my $2!!” One of the least recognized but cult favorite chapters in the “How To Be A Quirky Lovestruck Heartthrob” library of John Cusack, this 1985 classic cheese finally brings its cereal-prize spaceships, Howard Cosell-obsessed Japanese drag racers, singing hamburgers, and psychotic paperboys to

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On DVD & Blu-ray, 7/19/11: 'Peep World,' 'Boyz n the Hood,' More

PEEP WORLD (DVD/Blu-ray) How come TV actors so rarely get a break on the big screen? The general consensus seems to be that we’ve moved beyond the age of the Movie Star–just look at how little anyone cared about Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts’ Larry Crowne–so

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On DVD & Blu-ray, 7/12/11: 'Rango,' 'Insidious,' More

RANGO (DVD/Two-Disc Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Combo) The latest in the trend of computer-animated talking animal movies was the first for the studio (Paramount) and the director (Gore Verbinski), and still manages to rank as perhaps the best of the genre. What on paper sounds like just another cliché-ridden

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 7/5/11: 'Hobo with a Shotgun,' 'Das Boot,' More

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (DVD/Two-Disc Collector’s Edition DVD/Collector’s Edition Blu-ray & Digital) Hobo with a Shotgun is the feature-length adaptation of a contest-winning faux trailer shown with some Canadian prints of 2007’s Grindhouse; I haven’t seen the trailer, but maybe this stuff was amusing

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 6/28/11: 'Sucker Punch,' 'Barney's Version,' More

SUCKER PUNCH: Extended Cut (DVD/Blu-ray/Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Combo) Yep, here it is. This is the film that either destroyed any remnants of geek cred I may ever have had, or proved what a brilliant film viewer I really am. Why, you ask? Because, damn it, I liked

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 6/21/11: 'The Adjustment Bureau,' 'Cedar Rapids,' More

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (DVD/Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Combo) Taken from a short story by Philip K. Dick, The Adjustment Bureau has a great premise: there is a bureaucratic agency governing every decision you make, and if you stray from The Plan, they will step in and adjust your life.

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 6/14/11: 'Kill the Irishman,' 'Foo Fighters: Back and Forth'

KILL THE IRISHMAN (DVD/Blu-ray) When I reviewed Kill the Irishman for this blog, I described it as “sturdy” and “reliable,” and indeed it is. It’s a gangster movie in the classic sense of the term: no razzle-dazzle, no flashy set pieces, just a bunch of guys doing amoral

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 6/7/11: 'Breaking Bad,' 'True Grit,' More

BREAKING BAD: The Complete Third Season (DVD/Blu-ray) Breaking Bad‘s terrific second season was tightly plotted ahead of time, with ample foreshadowing throughout. For the show’s third season, however, creator Vince Gilligan and his writers turned into expert jazz players, improvising every note, changing rhythm, and exploring all

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 5/31/11: 'Biutiful,' 'Passion Play,' More

BIUTIFUL (DVD/Blu-ray) Biutiful is the most recent offering from Alejandro González Iñárritu, he of Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, all of which rank among my favorite films. Javier Bardem scored an Oscar nod as Uxbal, who, uh…actually, the synopses of this movie make it really hard to

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 5/24/11: 'The Great Dictator,' 'Solaris,' More

THE GREAT DICTATOR: The Criterion Collection (DVD/Blu-ray) You don’t necessarily equate Charlie Chaplin with vicious satire. But in 1940, with the U.S. still at peace with Nazi Germany, Chaplin made The Great Dictator, one of the most biting pieces of satire in cinema history. It was the

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 5/17/11: 'Thor: Tales of Asgard,' 'The Hustler,' More

THOR: TALES OF ASGARD (DVD/Blu-ray & DVD Combo) You’ve seen him in live-action as the arrogant/noble God of Thunder, now you can see him in animated form, long before he wielded the hammer Mjolnir. Thor, along with Loki and the Warriors Three (one of whom, Sif, is

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 5/10/11: 'Blue Valentine,' 'The Illusionist'

BLUE VALENTINE (DVD/Blu-ray) The most devastating, most gut-punching-est movie released in 2010 was Blue Valentine, an uncomfortably intimate drama from first-time feature director Derek Cianfrance. Ryan Gosling rivals his work in Half Nelson, and Michelle Williams gives the performance of her career (so far). Maybe you won’t feel

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On DVD & Blu-Ray, 5/3/11: 'The Green Hornet,' 'What Dreams May Come'

For the sake of brevity (and note that our definition of “brevity” is still, like, two-and-a-half hours), we have excised this segment from the show proper, but you can expect weekly updates on what’s new on DVD and Blu-ray. We will by no means cover all releases, not even