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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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 | | 20. Bourne Identity (HD) | | | Starring: Franka Potente Matt Damon Director: Doug Liman | | Format: High Definition DVD Release Date: 7/24/2007 | User Rating: 5 | | The Bourne Identity - DVD Review By: David Levine - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/13/2007 8:07 PM | |
Last year, Christopher Nolan took memory loss to a new level with his masterful thriller Memento, in which the hero tattoos notes on his body to help him cope with his condition. This year, the amnesiac champion of The Bourne Identity uses brains and brawn as a means of sorting out his memory loss. Doug Liman directs Identity with the same degree of creativity as he demonstrated with Swingers and Go, despite some reportedly epic studio and script squabbles. This time, however, he works on a much grander scale. read the full review | |
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 | | 21. True Blood-Complete 1st Season | | | Starring: Stephen Moyer Anna Paquin | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/19/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | True Blood: Season One - DVD Review By: Don Willmott - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/8/2009 5:39 PM | |
Richly populated with a wide variety of unique characters, not to mention a serial killer and lots of sexy vampires, Bon Temps, Louisiana is a decidedly interesting place in which to spend some time. Alan Ball's True Blood may not quite measure up to the triumph of his Six Feet Under, but it's as good a series as any HBO has put on the air since The Sopranos ended, and it's well worth a renewal or two. Based on a series of novels by Charlaine Harris, True Blood drops us into the weird world of Sookie Stackhouse (the energetic Anna Paquin), a young waitress who has ability to hear people's thoughts, a talent that annoys the hell out of her. read the full review | |
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 | | 23. Dexter-3rd Season Complete | | | Starring: Michael C. Hall | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/18/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Dexter: Season Three - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/7/2009 7:48 PM | |
Heroes need their villains but not nearly as badly as anti-heroes do. The second season of Showtime's dark comedy Dexter, which follows the comings-and-goings of a forensic analyst who triples as serial killer and family man, floundered due to a noticeable lack of a real nemesis for its title character to tango with. They offered a few adversaries: Keith Carradine's suave FBI agent, Erik King's suspicious Sgt. Doakes, and Jaime Murray's seductive NA sponsor. None of these characters matched the protagonist's wits, however, and it left both Hall's hilariously congenial sociopath and the show in lukewarm territory. read the full review | |
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 | | 27. Twilight (2-Disc Special Edition) | | | Starring: Kristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Director: Catherine Hardwicke | | Format: DVD Release Date: 3/20/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Twilight - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/13/2009 5:38 PM | |
Damn you Anne Rice! Even since you introduced that lovelorn supermodel turned bloodsucker Lestat, the vampire has been romanticized all out of proportion. Cold yet compassionate, sexy but spurned, the supposed supernatural monster has gone from corpse to Casanova in the twinkle of a dateless spinster's eye. Now comes Twilight, the latest entry in the continued compromising of the classic Stoker archetype. Aimed directly at the ADD-addled attention span of the average Facebooker, aside from being no fun at all, it stands as one of 2008's most crass commercial statements. read the full review | |
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 | | 31. 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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 | | 36. A Scanner Darkly (Blu-ray) new! | | | Starring: Robert Downey Keanu Reeves Director: Richard Linklater | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | A Scanner Darkly - DVD By: Anne Gilbert - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/8/2006 5:54 PM | |
Linklater returns to the same technique once again (and for the last time, from what he has said, due to rampant production difficulties) for a much more literal acid trip. Based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name, A Scanner Darkly is a feature-length PSA on the evils of drugs and the potentially-as-damaging efforts to ferret them out of society. read the full review | |
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 | | 41. A Scanner Darkly new! | | | Starring: Robert Downey Keanu Reeves Director: Richard Linklater | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | A Scanner Darkly By: Rafe Telsch - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 12/23/2006 7:45 PM | | Drama is exactly what A Scanner Darkly is. Despite a vaguely futuristic setting (seven years in the future really isn't that far, is it') and advertising that sometimes makes the film appear to be an animated Matrix tale, the film bears little resemblance to traditional science fiction (although you have to love the irony that Substance "D" is a red pill, continuing the science fiction idea that you should always question the consequences of swallowing any red pill). read the full review | |
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 | | 42. Enchanted April | | | Starring: Miranda Richardson Director: Mike Newell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/26/2009 | | Enchanted April - DVD Review By: Ed Perkis - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/3/2009 12:40 AM | | A sort of kooky spirituality hovers over Enchanted April. Not the annoying kind of kooky spirituality, but a light "presence" of something that releases the cares of 1920's English housefraus and helps solve bad marriages and overall grumpiness. The "presence" resides in Italy where four women escape the rain and dreariness of their lackluster London lives and spend one month in a castle. The four women, relative strangers in post WWI England, include Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson), women who are clearly unhappy with their husbands and their drab lives in general. read the full review | |
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