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Film DVD Review

The Princess Bride: Blu-Ray

by Marisa LaScala

[1.Apr.09] :. Reiner and Goldman manage to marry timeless storytelling elements with modern comedic sensibilities in such a way that it will never feel corny, old-fashioned, or dated.

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The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition

by Rebecca Chang

[6.Aug.08] :. This itself modern through that little smidgen of precocious reflexivity, and a healthy does of kitsch.

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Criminal Minds

by Marco Lanzagorta

[5.Oct.05] :. Criminal Minds confuses critical thinking with supernatural abilities.

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Dead Like Me: Second Season

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jul.05] :. Roxy, bless her, is acutely practical: 'Everybody can't get a monument, otherwise the world'd be one big-ass graveyard.'

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Ragtime (1981)

by Nikki Tranter

[29.Nov.04] :. Profound as Coalhouse walker's story might be, Ragtime is about far more.

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Dead Like Me: Season One

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jun.04] :. By way of explaining the significance of their task, Betty asserts, 'Hundreds and thousands of people die every day. Bodies are easy -- dig a ditch, light a match -- but what about the souls? Who takes care of them?'

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Dead Like Me

by Mike Ward

[17.Nov.03] :. Liberated from the selective perception that comes hand in hand with rational existence, the reapers on Dead Like Me are better prepared to anticipate the unexpected.

 

Piñero (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The first scene in Leon Ichaso's biographical film, 'Piñero', sets up a complex series of relationships between the artist and his demons -- or more pointedly, between the artist and the various audiences he sought to influence and astonish.