Features
Tuesday, October 14 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2
Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.
Columns
Thursday, April 9 2009
Looking Back at 'Back to the Future'
The most irreverent, knowing, daring and hippest time travel story of all time has, inevitably and fittingly, become a time capsule.
Reviews
Thursday, December 3 2009
Forrest Gump: 15th Anniversary Edition
Why Gump is not the poster boy for every Palin and Buchanan on the pundit circuit is astonishing.
Friday, November 6 2009
Disney's A Christmas Carol
The combination of animation (where the laws of physics are conveniently suspended) and 3D technology is a powerful temptation, and here we see many of the ways in which those toys can be misued.
Monday, March 3 2008
Beowulf (2007)
Crawling with mermaids and monsters, irony, and gore, Beowulf delivers the goods, without betraying its core narrative.
Friday, November 16 2007
Beowulf
Beowulf is the model man, outrageous and arrogant, and so admired far and wide.
Wednesday, September 27 2006
Romancing the Stone/The Jewel of the Nile (1984)
Everything in Jewel of the Nile is predictable, right down to the romantic final scenes at sunset.
Blogs
Monday, October 25 2010
It's All About Biff: 'Back to the Future' - 25th Anniversary Trilogy (Blu-ray)
Biff is the entire franchise's fulcrum, the turning point for almost every event in the McFlys' life. We need his danger, his seemingly unsinkable force to get us invested in the maudlin, milquetoast family.
Tuesday, November 24 2009
Forrest Gump: 15th Anniversary Edition
Forrest Gump: 15th Anniversary Edition - Paramount [$49.99]
Saturday, November 7 2009
Forrest Gump: 15th Anniversary Edition (1994)
It is perhaps the most maligned Best Picture Oscar winner of all time. While Sam Mendes' equally misjudged American Beauty gets an equal number of…
News
Friday, November 16 2007
'Beowulf' screenwriter says don't expect `300' in Viking horns
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Fantasy author Neil Gaiman automatically turns down offers to rewrite others' work for the screen, but in the case of "Beowulf,"…
