Recent DVDs Features

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Wednesday, March 26 2008

The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine

By Marco Lanzagorta

The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.

Friday, February 22 2008

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Jake

By Bill Gibron

Chinatown remains a stalwart of '70s cinema. The uninspired follow-up 16 years later reminds one that, sometimes, a masterpiece needs to simply be left alone.

Friday, January 25 2008

The Best Music DVDs of 2007

By Ron Hart

The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet.

Monday, December 3 2007

Berlin Alexanderplatz

By Michael Barrett

Berlin Alexanderplatz, both serial film and novel, are essential to knowing Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Friday, November 9 2007

Incomplete Coquette: The Brigitte Bardot Collection

By Bill Gibron

As a vision, Bardot is still alluring. As an actress, however, she’s a strange cinematic cipher. These films just do not serve Bardot.

Wednesday, October 24 2007

Past Imperfect: Luis Buñuel’s Early Work

By Bill Gibron

Sometimes, filmmaking genius is evident in every movie a cinematic master makes. In the case of this famed Spanish surrealist and his two early efforts, the future achievements are well hidden.

Monday, October 22 2007

Test Patterns: TV That Should Be on DVD

By PopMatters Staff

As a wrap up to the five-part Best of TV on DVD feature, we offer this partial wish list, this "where are they now?" wistfulness to some of our favorite forgotten shows that should be on DVD.

Friday, October 12 2007

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

By PopMatters Staff

The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

Thursday, October 11 2007

Part 4 - Feasts from the Fringe

By PopMatters Staff

Cable created supply where there was little or no demand. Out of the myriad of subject specific programming, a few gemstones managed to shine.

Wednesday, October 10 2007

Part 3 - The New Networks

By PopMatters Staff

It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

Tuesday, October 9 2007

Part 2 - Outsider Influences

By PopMatters Staff

TV was at a standstill. On one side -- the status quo. On the other -- the innovators from outside the mainstream. Guess who ended up winning the 'classics’ argument?

Monday, October 8 2007

PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD

By PopMatters Staff

As a wrap up to the five-part Best of TV on DVD feature, we offer this partial wish list, this "where are they now?" wistfulness to some of our favorite forgotten shows that should be on DVD.

Part 1 - All Time Classics

By PopMatters Staff

Where it all began... how TV became the cultural icon it is today, and the seminal shows that offered audiences a glimpse into the medium’s artistic potential.

Wednesday, June 6 2007

Kids’ DVDs: June 2007

By Roger Holland

Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

Monday, March 19 2007

Cinema Cuba Libre

By Michael Buening

The primary goal of The Cuban Masterworks Collection seems to correspond with Engel's call "to break down the reluctance of non-Cuban audiences to look at their films at all, and to make them look without prejudice."

Tuesday, February 27 2007

Lest We Should Forget

By Chadwick Jenkins

The unanticipated moments, the flickering images of people dying and afraid, make the War Chronicles series a haunting testimony to the tribulations of the individual despite the script's framing narrative depicting the nearly anonymous unfolding of events.

Wednesday, December 6 2006

Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?

By Roger Holland

As our inner Helen Lovejoy knows full well, Christmas Is For Thee Children. So what on earth can we pick up for our kids from Wal-Mart that'll fit into an SUV laden with goodies from the Pottery Barn and beyond? Well, DVDs. Obv. And why not start with the Christmas Classics?

Wednesday, October 11 2006

Kids DVDS - October 2006

By Roger Holland

The debut DVD release for Disney's 1990's TV series, TaleSpin, is a joyous hybrid of widespread source material that includes three ever-loveable characters from The Jungle Book -- Baloo, King Louie, and Shere Khan.

Monday, October 2 2006

Fight the Power?

By Bill Gibron

If the right to vote is so important, why aren't more people angry at the admitted flaws in the 2000 and 2004 elections? Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and documentarian Ian Inaba have some very disturbing answers.

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