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 | | 8. Curious Case Of Benjamin Button | | | Starring: Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Director: David Fincher | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/5/2009 | | 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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 | | 23. Cinderella Man (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Renée Zellweger Russell Crowe Director: Ron Howard | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/22/2008 | User Rating: 4 | | Cinderella Man - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/2/2009 5:39 AM | |
Tickets to Ron Howards period boxing drama Cinderella Man should come with bootstraps. That way we literally could join the films heavyweight hero, dutifully played by Russell Crowe, as he sifts through the wreckage left by bill collectors and broken bones to climb his way out of Dickens-level poverty and see the light at the end of his personal tunnel of despair. American audiences adore underdog stories, particularly those tied to sports. From Rocky to Seabiscuit, we devour worthy longshots given a chance to reclaim such precious commodities as pride, significance, or the undying love of family. That, and anything with Darth Vader in it. read the full review | |
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 | | 40. Seabiscuit (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Jeff Bridges Tobey Maguire Director: Gary Ross | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/22/2008 | | Seabiscuit - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/2/2009 5:39 AM | |
Regular readers know (or are expected to know) that I enjoy only two sports: boxing and horse racing. Sadly, movies about these two subjects almost always suck, probably having something to do with the fact that most of boxing's competitors are egomaniacal sociopaths and that the typical horse race lasts for only two minutes. And so we come to Seabiscuit, the true story of a small, unruly race horse of great breeding but poor disposition who found himself sold for scrap. Despite his attitude, he eventually became one of the greatest racers in history. (Believe it or not there's already been one Seabiscuit-inspired movie... the first one starring Shirley Temple. read the full review | |
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