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65%
|
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) |
"
Now that the film is back in the stores, perhaps it can be rediscovered. Too bad that's all one can positively say about this feature-less DVD."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2007
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West Wing - The Complete Fourth Season (2005) |
"
The set is a fine addition to the ever-growing legion of television programs hording the shelves at your local retailer."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2005
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|
.5/4
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6%
|
Son of the Mask (2005) |
"
Remarkably inept."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2005
|
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4/4
|
85%
|
F for Fake (1974) |
"
F for Fake is one of the more wistfully humorous of Welles's wrestlings with reality."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2005
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|
2.5/4
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95%
|
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) |
"
A documentary of quiet, introspective charm."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2005
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|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
Travellers & Magicians (2005) |
"
A bit too creakingly stiff in its allegory, but the film's refusal to provide simple answers is touchingly appropriate."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2005
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|
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78%
|
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"
An enjoyable DVD release of a wonderfully strange film."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
|
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3/4
|
78%
|
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"
Guy Maddin's snow globe cinema, hermetically sealed in ghostly adoration of silent cinema, is well matched to this darkly comic fable."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
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|
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50%
|
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1994) |
"
While perhaps not as necessary a purchase as the release of It's Alive, the two-for-the-price-of-one approach of this DVD is certainly appealing."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
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|
2/4
|
50%
|
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1994) |
"
Stretches the darkly comedic aspects of the trilogy to the breaking point."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
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|
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44%
|
It's Alive 2 (It Lives Again) (1993) |
"
While perhaps not as necessary a purchase as the release of It's Alive, the two-for-the-price-of-one approach of this DVD is certainly appealing."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
|
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3/4
|
44%
|
It's Alive 2 (It Lives Again) (1993) |
"
The second and third parts of Larry Cohen's It's Alive trilogy are by turns silly and sublime."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
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|
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69%
|
It's Alive (1973) |
"
If not as packed with extras as one may have hoped, this It's Alive DVD is a much-welcomed event."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2004
|
|
3.5/4
|
69%
|
It's Alive (1973) |
"
One part allegory on familial tensions and one part commentary on environmental and biological poisoning."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
86%
|
The Black Cat (1992) |
"
The Black Cat's impressionist wasteland is composed of equal parts severe allegory and pulp poetry."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 29, 2004
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——
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Batman: The Animated Series - Vol. 1 (2004) |
"
Given the rabid love so many fans have for the show, this set will undoubtedly fly off the shelves. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2004
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|
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60%
|
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) |
"
The lack of extras may be something to write to Warner Bros. about but not something that should dissuade a fan from picking this one up."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
|
|
3.5/4
|
60%
|
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) |
"
One of the finest of the seven entries in Hammer's Frankenstein cycle."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
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|
|
64%
|
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) |
"
A must! Taste the Blood of Dracula is not only one of best in the Christopher Lee Dracula series but one of Hammer's best overall productions."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) |
"
Taste the Blood of Dracula is unusual in that it keeps Dracula somewhat on the sidelines."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
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|
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77%
|
Panic Room (2002) |
"
The DVD provides enough substantive insight into the contemporary Hollywood filmmaking process."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2004
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) |
"
The film is not only an account of the moral slippage of one man but the record of a far larger, seemingly uncontrollable escalation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2004
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Robot Stories (2004) |
"
Concerned with detailing the various interactions of an unsettling, fragile humanity with its own technology."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2004
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Torque (2004) |
"
Director Joseph Kahn's Torque is inoffensively diverting-it's neither a work of inspired genre genius or mere manipulative commercial trash."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2004
|
|
1.5/4
|
27%
|
Paycheck (2003) |
"
The possibilities of Dick's premise are never really exploited, just used as the framework for limp action set-pieces."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2003
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville, Belleville Rendez-vous) (2003) |
"
The city of Belleville is like some nocturnal amalgam of Paris and New York, on the edge of a vast sea and of the world itself."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 18, 2003
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) |
"
There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 5, 2003
|
|
2.5/4
|
12%
|
Timeline (2003) |
"
The attempt to stay true to a historically minded adventure by maintaining a strangely subdued tone in terms of action just doesn't work."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
77%
|
Bad Santa (2003) |
"
Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2003
|
|
|
——
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Three's Company - Season 1 (2003) |
"
If you're a fan of the show, then the disc will be worth buying, especially when it inevitably goes on sale."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 20, 2003
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) |
"
The lunacy isn't inspired and the film never imitates the sharp comedic wit so frequently on display in the works of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Chuck Jones."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 11, 2003
|
|
|
100%
|
Indiana Jones - The Adventure Collection () |
"
Just to have the films on DVD is enough to give the set an overall positive rating."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
36%
|
Scary Movie 3 (2003) |
"
The humor is confined to watching protagonists smack around the film's monster and listening to a lot of "whites and blacks are different" jokes."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2003
|
|
1/4
|
73%
|
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"
A supremely smug experience, Runaway Jury begins as a thriller and ends as a tract that doesn't even have the decency to be well made propaganda."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2003
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) |
"
Morris allows McNamara the dignity of his memories, yet never allows the viewer to forget the deeply troubling moral questions bound to those memories."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Wonderland (2003) |
"
Save for its basis in historical reality, there is little that is original in the visualizing of Wonderland's underbelly tour of compromised lives."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2003
|
|
—
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38%
|
Star Trek - Nemesis (2002) |
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 28, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
71%
|
The Rundown (Welcome to the Jungle) (2003) |
"
Johnson is a natural action hero, a point presumably made rather cheekily by way of an early cameo from none other than Ahhnold himself."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2003
|
|
|
38%
|
Star Trek - Nemesis (2002) |
"
Star Trek: Nemesis DVD review"
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 24, 2003
|
|
1.5/4
|
31%
|
Underworld (2003) |
"
The film takes the fetishization of the vampire in contemporary pop culture quite literally."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2003
|
|
|
85%
|
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"
For anyone who enjoyed the film and seeks to immerse themselves even further into its fabricated world, the DVD is_near indispensable."
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 17, 2003
|
|
|
71%
|
The Ring (2002) |
"
The Ring on DVD"
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 16, 2003
|
|
—
|
95%
|
Oklahoma! (1955) |
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 22, 2003
|
|
—
|
44%
|
Two Evil Eyes (1990) |
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 22, 2003
|
|
—
|
95%
|
Oklahoma! (1955) |
"
"A compelling musical""
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 10, 2003
|
|
|
44%
|
Two Evil Eyes (1990) |
"
"Horror fans have reason to celebrate the release of George Romero and Dario Argento's Two Evil Eyes on DVD at long last.""
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 10, 2003
|
|
|
76%
|
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) |
"
Beneath the campy comedic gestures and genre spoofing, which are quite enjoyable in themselves, there is an often neglected serious side to Rocky Horror."
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted May 26, 2003
|
|
—
|
48%
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) |
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 7, 2003
|
|
|
48%
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) |
"
As adaptations of literary works go, the film must rank as one of the finest."
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 4, 2003
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