[Fri, 30.Jun.06]
:. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Together, Neil Young and Jonathan Demme make the graying of the quintessential baby boom musician a triumph to be celebrated.
:. Syriana
If you come away with nothing else from Syriana, it's that this concept -- winning -- is an illusion, at least in any sort of long run.

[Thur, 29.Jun.06]
:. The Wild Wild West: The Complete First Season
Constructed on a base of likeable characters, the tenor of The Wild Wild West changed from episode to episode, as directors and writers interpreted the world as they wish.
:. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
"If you read the script," Tommy Lee Jones tells his two actors, "really, it doesn't look like anyone is saying anything that actually matters."

[Wed, 28.Jun.06]
:. Caché (Hidden)
Michael Haneke's movies are never easy. Instead, they set out complex, multi-layered problems, encountered by ordinary-seeming characters, sometimes worked out but more usually left unresolved.

[Tues, 27.Jun.06]
:. Rush: Replay x 3
Travel back in time with Lerxst, Dirk, and the Professor!
:. NCIS: The Complete First Season
Bellisario's cast, dialogue, and wild collection of jokes, in-jokes, and meta-jokes, however? These are such stuff as dreams are made of.

[Mon, 26.Jun.06]
:. The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
Martyrdom requires a level of self-abnegation that makes self-awareness impossible.
:. Willowz: Seeinsquares
A band that got its first big break through the movies revisits the visual format with mixed success.

[Fri, 23.Jun.06]
:. Napoleon Dynamite: Like the Best Special Edition Ever
Napoleon Dynamite argues not only for the experience of being misunderstood, but also the gradual acceptance of knowing one is misunderstood.

[Thur, 22.Jun.06]
:. Sergeant Bilko - 50th Anniversary Edition (The Phil Silvers Show)
The first episode, "New Recruits", is a wonderful introduction, establishing not only characters and set-up, but also the series' underlying morality.

[Wed, 21.Jun.06]
:. The Bugaloos: The Complete Series
While many consider Sid and Marty some drug-addled anarchists out to corrupt the youth of America, The Bugaloos is actually the closest their creations ever came to capturing the spectral and sonic situations of the '60s.
:. King of the Hill: The Complete Season Six
The Complete Sixth Season, like the last few Hill DVD sets, suffers from underappreciation, yet it's one of the few recent sitcoms worth talking about.

[Tues, 20.Jun.06]
:. Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition) / Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Dolls and Beyond might help us see that we are, today, all living smack in the middle of the valley of the dolls.

[Mon, 19.Jun.06]
:. The Golden Girls: The Complete Fifth Season
The girls are back. And, as demonstrated in The Golden Girls: The Complete Fifth Season, the series' original sophistication has come back with them.
:. American Dad: Volume 1
It's all Family Guy's fault. Had that cult cartoon not been cancelled and proven its mantle by becoming a phenomenon on DVD, we wouldn't be stuck with American Dad, its jaded jingoistic cousin.

[Fri, 16.Jun.06]
:. Wu-Tang Clan, Legend of the Wu-Tang: The Videos
The Wu's particular virtues are such that the music video format has never made for a comfortable fit.
 

[Thur, 15.Jun.06]
:. Red Hot + Blue
Conceived as a multimedia AIDS awareness package, the re-release of this 15 year-old project succeeds when the message doesn't overpower the inherent strength and subtlety of Cole Porter's songs.
:. Home Movies: Season 4
Knowing that Brendan Small continues to dabble in music, it's easy to read this season, and the bittersweet (and hilarious) "Focus Grill" in particular, as his transition away from childhood things.

[Wed, 14.Jun.06]
:. Beavis & Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 2
In the mid-'90s, Beavis was a weird wake-up call for parents who were clueless about their children's destructive drives. Now it's a backwards glance at a demographic gone demented.
:. Shadows in the Sun
Claire Forlani goes so far as to call Shadows in the Sun her Il Postino. Oy.

[Tues, 13.Jun.06]
:. Robert Altman Collection
This uneven collection is a definite example of the adage "when he's good, he's very good, but when he's bad, he's very bad".
:. Aquamarine
Aquamarine respects bonds between girls, framing this threeway friendship as more engaging than any summertime movie romance.

[Mon, 12.Jun.06]
:. The Sentinel - The Complete First Season
As The Sentinel can't decide whether it's a superheroic sci-fi drama or a police procedural featuring a walking, talking C.S.I. lab, it lingers somewhere in between.
:. Date Movie (Unrated)
Date Movie is not the spoof it seemingly aspires to. Rather, it's but a dreadfully long catalog of references to other infinitely superior movies.

[Fri, 9.Jun.06]
:. Planet of the Apes: The Legacy Collection
This collection of Apes films oscillates wildly between the delightful and the agonizing; but the rewards more than offset the pains.
:. Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Ultimate Rivalry
The documentary comes off as little more than an ill-conceived plan to exploit our collective love of a suddenly downtrodden rivalry for monetary gain.

[Thur, 8.Jun.06]
:. Mr. & Mrs Smith: Unrated Collector's Edition
Mr. & Mrs. Smith strips away the niceties of the classical narrative form to revel in pure spectacle, and to surprisingly pleasurable effect.
:. Natural City
They say imitation is the most valid form of adulation. If that's the case, then Ridley Scott and The Wachowski Brothers must be drowning in the sycophancy of this 2003 South Korean science fiction film.

[Wed, 7.Jun.06]
:. I Love Lucy: The Complete Sixth Season
In the end, the grind was just too great, though I Love Lucy was still the number one show when it closed up shop.
:. The Mae Shi: Lock the Skull, Load the Gun
LA spazz punkers show off film school/animation skills in 30-video set, but if you want to see the Mae Shi in action, you're better off buying show tickets.

[Tues, 6.Jun.06]
:. Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition
Watching Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition with John Waters' commentary track is like seeing it with your sharpest, funniest friend, who just happens to have inside dish on Melanie Griffiths.
:. Wings: The Complete First and Second Seasons
It appears from these first episodes that Wings' purpose is defined: it's The Odd Couple with planes.

[Mon, 5.Jun.06]
:. The Kids in the Hall: Complete Season 4
If we share Freud's liberationist stance on the power of humor, then no sketch comedy series is more pure and direct in its dissident hilarity than The Kids in the Hall.
:. Glory Road
In a Jerry Bruckheimer sports movie, truth and good intentions have little chance against formula.

[Fri, 2.Jun.06]
:. Transgeneration
Transgeneration is a more comprehensive and complicated look at the difficulties faced by transgender individuals than Duncan Tucker's Transamerica.
:. That 70s Show: Season 4
From commonalities to clichés, That 70s Show runs the gamut.

[Thur, 1.Jun.06]
:. Dinosaurs: The Complete First and Second Seasons
Whereas Dinosaurs' message-based storytelling would have seemed preachy in the mouths of live-action performers, a seven-foot tall Megalosaurus can get downright nasty when inveighing on the ills of modern, er, prehistoric society.