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 | | 5. Curious Case Of Benjamin Button | | | Starring: Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Director: David Fincher | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/25/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/24/2009 5:36 PM | | Every great filmmaker is allowed one bad film. For David Fincher, his first was his worst. An intelligent director, Fincher cut his teeth on television commercials and music videos before making his feature debut in 1992 with a forgettable and regrettable installment in the Alien franchise. It was all uphill from there. Fincher's next five films arguably are modern classics, each impressively different from its immediate predecessor. Gen X fanboys idolize him for the basement-dwelling aggressions of Fight Club. The director brought flash -- and a needed backbone -- to pulp thrillers like The Game and Panic Room. And cineastes found plenty to appreciate in the meticulous musings of Fincher's cold-case police procedural, Zodiac. read the full review | |
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 | | 7. Angels & Demons new! | | | Starring: Tom Hanks Director: Ron Howard | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/24/2009 | | Angels & Demons (Two-Disc Extended Edition) - DVD Review By: Blake Matthews - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 11/24/2009 12:26 PM | | Angels & Demons is an adaptation of the best selling Dan Brown novel of the same name and reunites director Ron Howard and actor Tom Hanks for their fourth collaboration. Even though Angels is theatrically a sequel to The Da Vinci Code, the novel was published years before Code, which meant Howard, Hanks, and Brown had to play the film as a sequel rather than a prequel, which created an interesting challenge for all involved. During the testing of the Large Hadron Collider, a small amount of anti-matter is created and separated in three canisters for testing. At the same time the Catholic Church is in the middle of both mourning the passing of the Pope and trying to choose his successor. The secret society known as The Illuminati is trying to disrupt the Vatican’s search for a new pope. read the full review | |
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 | | 8. Its a Wonderful Life 60th Anniversary Edition | | | Starring: James Stewart Donna Reed Director: Frank Capra | | Format: DVD Release Date: 10/31/2006 | | It's a Wonderful Life - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/23/2009 5:09 PM | |
Come now, what on earth am I going to say about one of the most beloved films ever made? Something about how it was originally coined on a Christmas Card? About how a clerical error resulted in it not being copyrighted and contributing to its ubiquity on television -- since it was royalty-free? Or should I just go ahead and tell the few people on earth who haven't seen it what it's all about. Okay kids, if you don't have a TV, It's a Wonderful Life tells us about George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), who lives and loves his small town of Bedford Falls so much he'd die for it. read the full review | |
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 | | 14. Fountain (Blu-ray) new! | | | Starring: Hugh Jackman Rachel Weisz Director: Darren Aronofsky | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | User Rating: 5 | | The Fountain - DVD By: Daniel J. Stasiewski - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 5/14/2007 1:36 PM | | The film is one that spans a millennium. From the story of a Spanish conquistador (Hugh Jackman) sent to the Mayan territories in search for the Tree of Life to a narrative involving a man (Jackman again) traveling to a nebula in search of the Mayan underworld, the film’s ambitious scale is unbelievable. Yet the romance at the center of it all, a contemporary love story about a research scientist (once again, Jackman) trying to cure cancer to save his dying wife (Rachel Weisz), grounds the film. The combination results in revelations and heartbreaking truths about mankind.
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 | | 15. The Notebook (Platinum Series) new! | | | Starring: Ryan Gosling Rachel McAdams Director: Nick Cassavetes | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | The Notebook - DVD Review By: Norm Schrager - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/9/2009 4:44 PM | |
With just four films under Nick Cassavetes's belt, it's almost unfair to compare the director to his trailblazing father. In the case of The Notebook, however, it's unavoidable. Thanks to papa John (Husbands, Gloria), the name Cassavetes has come to symbolize intrepid, no-apologies filmmaking and the unconventional human interaction within Now, 15 years after the maverick's death, his heir has traveled to the opposite pole, adapting a Nicholas Sparks novel into a standard tearjerker, filling the screen with handfuls of manipulative Hollywood clichs. read the full review | |
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 | | 18. Painted Veil new! | | | Starring: Edward Norton Naomi Watts Director: John Curran | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | User Rating: 4.2 | | The Painted Veil - DVD By: Franck Tabouring - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/12/2007 4:43 PM | | Director John Curran and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner guide their viewers through this relationship with care and precision, while emphasizing on solid character development and powerful dialogue. The Painted Veil does a wonderful job at capturing the emotions from Maugham's novel, a story about two individuals whose uselessness in a place far away from home is the only thing they have in common. read the full review | |
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 | | 34. Dreamgirls (HD) | | | Starring: Jamie Foxx Beyonce Knowles Director: Bill Condon | | Format: High Definition DVD Release Date: 5/1/2007 | | User Rating: 5 | | Dreamgirls - DVD By: TV and Film Guy - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/30/2007 7:34 AM | | Even so, the movie does provide enough shimmer, enough glitz, and enough good music (on stage, not off) that it is unquestionably fun to sit down and watch. With strong performances by Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Jamie Foxx, and others, there is little doubt as to why it was nominated for so many acting awards. I must state though, as has been stated elsewhere, that Jennifer Hudson’s role was not really a supporting one as much as a lead. read the full review | |
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 | | 36. A Time to Kill new! | | | Starring: Samuel L. Jackson Matthew McConaughey Director: Joel Schumacher | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | A Time to Kill - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/16/2009 7:45 PM | |
Remember the hoopla over the novel A Time To Kill? It was celebrated author John Grisham's second book -- actually his first book -- the book he published after The Firm became a hit. The book that no one wanted before he was famous. The book, apparently, that, if it hadn't had his name on it, would never have been published. Now it's the fourth Grisham movie to be made, continuing in grand fashion that franchise of increasingly average film versions of his increasingly average writing. read the full review | |
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 | | 42. Falling Down | | | Starring: Michael Douglas Director: Joel Schumacher | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/11/2007 | | User Rating: 5 | | Falling Down - DVD Review By: Jason McKiernan - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/26/2009 8:39 PM | |
Falling Down offers an interesting concept that is handled with the grace of a psycho wielding a baseball bat. The material has potential for greatness, but it is treated with an absolute minimum of subtlety, almost as if the filmmakers are daring us not to roll our eyes. The film was directed by Joel Schumacher and to be fair, the hammer-it-home style is The Schumacher Way, but this is supposed to be a serious film about socio-emotional anger, not Batman and Robin. Michael Douglas headlines the film, playing a character that allows him to use his excellent shouting voice in almost every scene. read the full review | |
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 | | 45. My Sisters Keeper new! | | | Starring: Alec Baldwin Cameron Diaz Director: Nick Cassavetes | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/17/2009 | | My Sister's Keeper - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/6/2009 9:42 PM | |
Nick Cassavetes remains an interesting case study. After years spent toiling as an actor in forgettable, masochistic, basic-cable fare like Sins of the Night or the third Delta Force movie -- you know, the one with Mike Norris, not Chuck Norris -- the tattooed New York native with the prestigious bloodline is now carving a niche behind the camera as a male filmmaker who's interested in female-targeted melodramas. His 1996 directorial debut, Unhook the Stars, encouraged two strong actresses (his mother, Gena Rowlands, and an underrated Marisa Tomei) to make the most of an underwhelming character piece. read the full review | |
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