 | | 1. 21 (Single Disc) new! | | | Starring: Jim Sturgess Kevin Spacey Director: Robert Luketic | | Format: DVD Release Date: 7/22/2008 | | 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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 | | 3. Bank Job (Widescreen) new! | | | Starring: Jason Statham Director: Roger Donaldson | | Format: DVD Release Date: 7/15/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 6 | | The Bank Job - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/4/2008 7:34 PM | |
Based on some unspeakable, super classified bank robbery that took place in 1971 London, the investigation of which yielded no recovered money nor any arrests, Roger Donaldson's The Bank Job throttles its engines and tosses in just enough criminal bottom-dwellers to keep the viewers' minds away from the fact that it's still just another heist flick with a cockney accent and a taste for pints.
Names changed (get this) to protect the guilty, the whole mess breaks out when political revolutionary Michael X (Peter De Jersey) snaps some shots of Princess Margaret getting double teamed by two young men on a secluded island. read the full review | |
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 | | 17. Brokeback Mountain (HD & DVD Combo) | | | Starring: Anna Faris Michelle Williams Director: Ang Lee | | Format: High Definition DVD Release Date: 1/23/2007 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Brokeback Mountain - DVD By: David Thomas - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/12/2007 5:00 PM | |
The first thing youre likely to hear about Brokeback Mountain, the new film from Ang Lee, is that its about gay cowboys. Truthfully, thats all the novelty it has to offer. Just the thought of screen hunks Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal making out is a point of sale or controversy, depending on your point of view. But once you get past the hook, what emerges is a much more traditional, but no less affecting, tragedy about two people who simply cannot have what they want. read the full review | |
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 | | 18. The Departed (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon Director: Martin Scorsese | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 2/13/2007 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition) - DVD By: Edward Perkis - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 2/17/2007 6:55 PM | | The cat and mouse game played by the two leads under the eye of Nicholson and using cell phones as a key plot point is masterful and in Scorsese's assured hands, scenes pop off the screen with tension. He also uses classic rock songs in his trademark manner, impressively setting time, place, or mood. However, his use of "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" a ferocious song by the celtic punk band The Dropkick Murphys during the title card sequence (following an 18 minute prologue) really kicks the movie into high gear and is a brilliant choice. read the full review | |
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 | | 25. Cocaine Cowboys coming soon! | | | Director: Billy Corben | | Format: DVD Release Date: 7/29/2008 | | Cocaine Cowboys - DVD By: Chris Barsanti - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/12/2007 5:00 PM | |
It's just possible that, some day, America's Most Wanted will make itself a feature-length episode on some larger, multi-criminal subject and release it in theaters. However unlikely and unappetizing that scenario is, it would still end up being vastly more interesting than Billy Corben's documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Although the raw material is here for fascinating viewing -- following, as it does, Miami's epochal shift during the 1980s from sleepy southern burg into ultra-violent shooting gallery for drug cartels -- Corben manages to turn it all into tone-deaf mush. read the full review | |
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