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Deception DVD review

Jonathan McQuarry (played by Ewan McGregor) is a timid accountant whose life revolves almost completely around his work, although it doesn’t seem to “stimulate” him. In fact, his life seems completely dry and uninteresting until a chance meeting with a suave, corporate lawyer named Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman) introduces him to “The List.” Suddenly, after ….

Pathology DVD review

German Director Marc Schoelermann creates an effective thriller with his U.S. feature debut Pathology. The psychological thriller is set in the medical school world, as we find brilliant student Ted Grey (played by Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia) with his entire life ahead of him, as a forensic pathologist. He soon becomes a pawn in a ….

Elite Squad (Tropa De Elite) film review

Elite Squad is director José Padilha’s follow-up to his widely acclaimed documentary Bus 174. The story follows Captain Nascimento (realistically played by Wagner Moura), a veteran member of BOPE, Brazil’s equivalent to S.W.A.T., only with tactics that include government-condoned violence and mayhem-creation. BOPE is a meticulously trained and widely feared super-elite Rio police squad engaged ….

Reprise DVD review

Reprise, a darkly humorous coming of age story, comes to DVD from Miramax Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment today. Executive produced by Academy Award winner Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men), Reprise turns cinematic storytelling on its head, and explores the divide between the dreams of exuberant youth and the harsh realities of ….

Son of Rambow DVD review

Year: 2008 Son of Rambow takes place on a long English summer in the early 1980’s, as two young boys quixotically set forth in developing a short film project for submission into a BBC filmmakers’ competition. From the beginning, the film is the type of inspirational story that one would find in a Chris Van ….

Bowling for Columbine film review

Year: 2002 Why is America so violent? In Micheal Moore’s recent best selling book, "Stupid White Men," he raises this question to a pre-911 America and finds fault with the greedy, unscrupulous white men who run the government and corporate America. In his post 911 documentary he takes further aim at their children, in particular ….

Alien film review

The good news: Sigourney Weaver’s famous underwear shot, which probably launched millions of now middle-aged men straight into puberty and beyond, has survived Ridley Scott’s keen eye in his digitally remastered 2003 director’s cut of Alien. As for the bad news, well, there really isn’t any. Alien, first released in 1979 and in theaters right ….

The Animatrix film review

The ANIMATRIX is a series of animated short films, inspired by and linked to the MATRIX universe. They were created by some of the hottest Japanese animators working in the industry today. The following reviews are for each of the nine shorts. The Final Flight Of The Osiris The first short within the Animatrix disc ….

Attila film review

It’s been rumored in some history books that Attila the Hun died of an exploding blood clot while in the throes of sexual ecstasy – what a way to go, huh? Unfortunately, that’s a scene you won’t find in the USA Network’s made for television Attila, the latest attempt to cash in on the success ….

Bamboozled film review

Welcome to a piece of American history. In the old music hall, white comedians and song ‘n’ dance men would splash their faces in charcoal, maybe throw on a pair of white gloves, then go through the step-n-fetchin’ routine, the exotica and the buffoonery of perceived black culture. Jim Crow, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Mammy, L’il ….

Barbershop film review

It seems every black ensemble film these days yanks at the same old yarn of bringing back good values to the ‘hood – keep your nose clean, love thy neighbor, and treat your woman right. But Barbershop, swelling with the classic Horatio Alger-like “Pull your community up by the bootstraps” message, is populated by surprisingly ….