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 | | 10. Mamma Mia! The Movie (2-Disc Special Edition) | | | Starring: Stellan Skarsgaard Amanda Seyfried Director: Phyllida Lloyd | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/14/2009 | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | Mamma Mia! - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/30/2009 11:42 PM | |
Not everyone can make a movie. The motion picture art form, while not incredibly complicated, contains enough nuances and pitfalls to circumvent even the most seasoned show business veteran. Perfect proof of celluloid's selective process arrives in the form of Mamma Mia!, the big screen adaptation of the hit jukebox musical. While it ends up being a whimsical and quite wonderful experience on a superficial level, the vision behind the lens is radioactive in its undeniable cluelessness. Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) lives on a remote Greek island with her ex-rock star mother Donna (Meryl Streep). She is about to marry the British bo-hunk Sky (Dominic Hooper), and she really wants her dad to give her away. read the full review | |
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 | | 12. Mamma Mia the Movie | | | Starring: Amanda Seyfried Meryl Streep Director: Phyllida Lloyd | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/14/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Mamma Mia! The Movie - DVD Review By: Robert M. Barga - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 12/4/2008 2:04 PM | | Mamma Mia! tells the story of a love-struck young girl named Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) looking for her real father. Living in a work-in-progress hotel on a small Greek Island with her mother Donna (2 time Academy Award Winner Meryl Streep), Sophie is planning on marrying her fiancé Sky (Dominic Cooper) and wants to have her father give her away. Being the sneaky intelligent girl that she is, she steals her mother's old diary and discovers three potential fathers, Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Harry Bright (Colin Firth), and Bill Anderson (Stellan Skarsgård). Being completely love-struck, she invites all three to come to her wedding. read the full review | |
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 | | 23. Pride and Prejudice (Mini Series) (Special Edition) | | | Starring: Colin Firth Director: Simon Langton | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/25/2003 | User Rating: 4.4 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Pride and Prejudice (1995) - DVD Review By: David Bezanson - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/3/2009 5:36 PM | |
Most film adaptations of classic books are inferior to the books they are based on. This is partly because the written word allows more nuance than the camera, but also because great books don't always have enough plotting or action to make great movies, and film adaptations often overcompensate by rewriting the book in a quest to make it more cinematic. The most obvious recent example (speaking of quests) is The Lord of the Rings: Peter Jackson omitted key scenes, changed others, and generally jacked up Tolkien's fanatically-loved bestseller for no good reason. read the full review | |
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 | | 35. Untraceable | | | Starring: Diane Lane Billy Burke Director: Gregory Hoblit | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/22/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | 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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 | | 36. Pride and Glory | | | Starring: Colin Farrell Edward Norton Director: Gavin O'Connor | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/25/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 2 | | Pride and Glory - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/16/2009 7:45 PM | |
Police thrillers these days aspire to replicate the CSI formula on the big screen. Not Pride and Glory. It wants to be this generation's Serpico. Director Gavin O'Connor certainly understands the difference between the two. Though Glory lays out a complex yet solvable mystery, it's far more interested in loyalty and the familial bonds that exist among lifetime police officers. It also wears its adoration for the badge -- and those who wear it -- on its sleeve. read the full review | |
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 | | 37. In Bruges | | | Starring: Ralph Fiennes Brendan Gleeson Director: Martin McDonagh | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/12/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | In Bruges - DVD Review By: Jarad I. Wilk - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 7/3/2008 10:48 AM | | Ray (Farrell) and Ken (Gleeson) are two hitmen who just completed a difficult job where Ray accidentally kills a child. Their boss, Harry (Fiennes), a family man who happens to be in the business of killing people, is not happy with the results of the hit, so he holes them up in Bruges, Belgium - which could be the last destination for one of the men. read the full review | |
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