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 | | 2. 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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 | | 6. 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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 | | 7. Coraline | | | Starring: Dakota Fanning Teri Hatcher Director: Henry Selick | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/3/2010 | | Coraline - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/10/2009 4:48 PM | |
Remember The Nightmare Before Christmas? The holiday classic is invariably credited to its producer and story writer Tim Burton, but the film was actually directed by New Jersey native Henry Selick, an animator on Pete's Dragon and The Fox and the Hound who met Burton when they both worked at Disney in the '80s. Selick finally returns to the world of stop-motion animation once again, which he used solely in both Nightmare and the 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation James and the Giant Peach, with Coraline, another adaptation of a cryptic children's fable, this one written by literary goth overlord Neil Gaiman. read the full review | |
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 | | 9. 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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 | | 19. 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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 | | 20. 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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 | | 21. 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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 | | 24. Wanted (Widescreen) | | | Starring: James McAvoy Morgan Freeman Director: Timbor Bekmambetov | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/14/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Wanted - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/21/2008 4:31 PM | |
A scrawny, self-loathing office drone gets plucked from his humdrum existence by a steely, gun-wielding super babe, is mentored by a Zen warrior with limitless intelligence but limited patience, then endures harsh physical training to prepare for a deadly mission only he can complete. What sounds an awful lot like The Matrix is actually Wanted, an adaptation of Mark Millar's 2004 comic book miniseries by style-conscious Kazakh filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov. read the full review | |
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 | | 30. There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis Paul Dano Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 9/29/2009 | | There Will Be Blood - Blu-ray Review By: J.D. McNamara - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 6/10/2008 5:55 PM | | There Will Be Blood is certainly not an easy film to watch, nor is it a particularly enjoyable experience. But it's an immensely powerful movie that's also darkly humorous, poignant, emotional, violent and ultimately, quite tragic. It's a perversely compelling story about a man who's torn to shreds by a world not fit enough for his madness, hatred, and stark self loathing. read the full review | |
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 | | 31. 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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 | | 32. 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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 | | 40. Enchanted April coming soon! | | | 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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 | | 43. 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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 | | 45. Slumdog Millionaire | | | Starring: Anil Kapoor Dev Patel Director: Danny Boyle | | Format: DVD Release Date: 3/31/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 2 | | Slumdog Millionaire - DVD Review By: Robert M. Barga - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/5/2009 6:38 PM | | Last year, one movie captured America’s hearts and minds. The movie, which was on the path to nowhere (straight-to-DVD release), reached out and was seen by millions of people across the country. The same movie won eight Academy Awards, the most for a single movie since the Lord of the Rings series. That very same movie is now available on Blu-ray and standard DVD. Yes, America, Slumdog Millionaire has just been released for you to own. read the full review | |
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