|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
A
|
63%
|
The Powerpuff Girls - The Movie (2002) |
"
Read it as a deconstruction of Anime, a triumph of 2-D primary design or just one of the few funny cartoons left on television: The Powerpuff Girls is an all-around delight"
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2002
|
|
A
|
89%
|
Galaxy Quest (1999) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2002
|
|
A
|
67%
|
Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2002
|
|
A
|
85%
|
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 4, 2002
|
|
A-
|
45%
|
The Cell (2000) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2002
|
|
A-
|
92%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"
A truly fine film, elegant in its way and exciting without giving in to mindlessness."
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2002
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
The Triplets of Belleville (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
|
|
B+
|
77%
|
Panic Room (2002) |
"
Panic Room fits nicely within the trajectory of the elegant career arc Fincher has already plotted."
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2002
|
|
B+
|
57%
|
Mission Impossible 2 (2000) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2002
|
|
B+
|
96%
|
Chicken Run (2000) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 6, 2002
|
|
|
——
|
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."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2005
|
|
|
78%
|
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"
An enjoyable DVD release of a wonderfully strange film."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
|
|
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
|
|
|
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."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
|
|
|
44%
|
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."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
|
|
3/4
|
44%
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
——
|
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
|
|
|
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."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
77%
|
Panic Room (2002) |
"
The DVD provides enough substantive insight into the contemporary Hollywood filmmaking process."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 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
|
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
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."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2003
|
|
|
38%
|
Star Trek - Nemesis (2002) |
"
Star Trek: Nemesis DVD review"
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 24, 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
|
|
|
50%
|
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
|
|
|
51%
|
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
|
|
|
38%
|
The House By The Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) (1981) |
"
House by the Cemetery fulfills the Fulci promise of spouting gore, but ultimately manages to transcend it."
—
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 13, 2003
|
|
|
93%
|
Dracula (1931) |
"
Classic Horror meets DVD"
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Mar 3, 2003
|
|
B
|
74%
|
Signs (2002) |
"
If Signs is a good film, and it is, the essence of a great one is in there somewhere."
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2002
|
|
B
|
34%
|
Resident Evil (2002) |
"
Just a bloody good time."
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2002
|
|
B
|
29%
|
The Time Machine (2002) |
"
the film tunes into a grief that could lead a man across centuries."
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2002
|
|
B
|
42%
|
The Ninth Gate (1999) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2002
|
|
B
|
64%
|
Bring It On (2000) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2002
|
|
B
|
51%
|
The World Is Not Enough (1999) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2002
|
|
2.5/4
|
95%
|
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) |
"
A documentary of quiet, introspective charm."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2005
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
B-
|
54%
|
The Transporter (2002) |
"
It's the kind of film where the villain even gives an evil look for his passport photo. How can you resist that?"
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Oct 27, 2002
|
|
B-
|
74%
|
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) |
"
A film that was at once far more entertaining, clever and witty than I expected, and one that despite its attempts to reference an older style of adventure film, falls short by its very cartoonishness."
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2002
|
|
B-
|
48%
|
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"
Eight Legged Freaks has an indulgent charm."
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Aug 4, 2002
|
67%
——
98%
