 | | 1. Across the Universe new! | | | Starring: Evan Rachel Wood Jim Sturgess Director: Julie Taymor | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/23/2008 | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 4 |  | Across the Universe - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/25/2008 8:25 PM | |
Julie Taymor's Across the Universe is a musical that tells its story through a couple dozen Beatles songs and in service of this ambition, it is necessary to forgive a certain degree of yearning nostalgia. The wealth of references and in-jokes -- spare lyrics turning up in dialogue, a rooftop concert, unexpected appearances of Joe Cocker -- may seem cornball or literal, and they sometimes are, but the movie's brand of Beatlemania is unabashedly fannish, too, and understandable in its way. There are plenty of musical acts whose music and lyrics brought to life would not enchant me; don't wake me for the inevitable Light My Fire or Brass in Pocket. read the full review | |
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 | | 2. Untraceable | | | Starring: Diane Lane Billy Burke Director: Gregory Hoblit | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/25/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 4 | | Untraceable - DVD Review By: Lori Kapes - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/24/2008 2:56 PM | | The killer's point is that we are human and can't turn away from a car wreck or from seeing someone else suffer. While I commend the writers for not shoving this message down our throats like the first Saw, the little one liners are so obvious. In one scene Griffin laughs at the fact that the killer has blocked all foreign IP's from viewing the site. "How patriotic," he says read the full review | |
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 | | 4. The Other Boleyn Girl | | | Starring: Eric Bana Natalie Portman Director: Justin Chadwick | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/25/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 3 | | The Other Boleyn Girl - DVD Review By: Lori Kapes - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 6/27/2008 10:45 PM | | The majority of movies based in the Middle Ages are droning or action packed (therefore mostly catering to an audience of the male persuasion). While this is neither droning nor action packed it still hasn't added anything entirely new to the genre. It wishes it could be In Her Shoes/Grey's Anatomy yet it obviously falls short. read the full review | |
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 | | 6. Made of Honor new! | | | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/16/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 3 |
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 | | 8. 21 (Single Disc) | | | Starring: Jim Sturgess Kevin Spacey Director: Robert Luketic | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/23/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 3 | | 21 - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/11/2008 8:40 PM | |
With the ongoing popularity of high stakes poker, greenlighting a film like 21 would appear to be a Tinseltown no-brainer. After all, you've got the true story of how a group of MIT students broke the bank in Vegas by applying their highly trained analytical minds toward counting cards, beating Sin City's blackjack tables in the process. It's a mega-dose of Mensa wish fulfillment. But leave it to Hollywood to fiddle with the facts. Ben Mezrich's non-fiction book entitled Bringing Down the House centered on a group of mostly Asian geniuses grifting casinos for all the cash they could. Somehow, that translated into a cast consisting of Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, and Kate Bosworth. read the full review | |
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 | | 10. Vantage Point (Single Disc Widescreen) | | | Starring: Forest Whitaker Matthew Fox Director: Pete Travis | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/23/2008 | | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 3 | | Vantage Point - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/20/2008 7:32 PM | |
When you hear that a film has been sitting on the shelf for a couple of years (since 2006, apparently), certain reactionary red flags go off in your head. Of course, the makers of the new political thriller, Vantage Point, could argue that it was the subject matter, not sloppy filmmaking or underdeveloped characters, that required some temporal displacement. After all, the narrative revolves around the attempted assassination of the U.S. President at an anti-terrorism summit in Spain. The argued novelty of writer Barry Levy's script and director Pete Travis' approach is the Rashomon-styled multiple perspective of the participants. We view this event from every possible point of view except a logical -- or entertaining -- one. read the full review | |
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 | | 11. Prom Night | | | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/19/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 2 |
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 | | 13. Jane Austen Book Club new! | | | Starring: Maria Bello Kathy Baker Director: Robin Swicord | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/23/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 2 | | The Jane Austen Book Club - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/25/2008 8:25 PM | |
You need neither a deep appreciation for author Jane Austen nor an understanding of her six novels to recognize that The Jane Austen Book Club stinks. A chick-lit-flick, Book Club is poorly directed by Robin Swicord from her own inconsistent adaptation of Karen Jay Fowler's novel about five women (and one coerced man) who use Austen's novels as a means to escape their broken lives. They cover one book a month, and we roll our eyes as their individual problems mirror the quandaries found in Austen's chapters. The ladies in Swicords cast are perfectly capable. read the full review | |
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