 | | 15. Fountain (Widescreen) new! | | | Starring: Hugh Jackman Rachel Weisz Director: Darren Aronofsky | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 |  | The Fountain - DVD By: Daniel J. Stasiewski - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 5/14/2007 1:36 PM | | The film is one that spans a millennium. From the story of a Spanish conquistador (Hugh Jackman) sent to the Mayan territories in search for the Tree of Life to a narrative involving a man (Jackman again) traveling to a nebula in search of the Mayan underworld, the film’s ambitious scale is unbelievable. Yet the romance at the center of it all, a contemporary love story about a research scientist (once again, Jackman) trying to cure cancer to save his dying wife (Rachel Weisz), grounds the film. The combination results in revelations and heartbreaking truths about mankind.
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 | | 17. Sweeney Todd (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Johnny Depp Helena Bonham-Carter Director: Tim Burton | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 10/13/2009 | | Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Josh Lasser - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 12/4/2008 9:44 PM | | Tim Burton is a visionary director. Looking at his body of work from the late 1980s through today, one gets a clear sense of his dark, humorous world view. Burton's films are filled with a sense of the fantastic, the supernatural, and the wondrous. The look of every frame of a Burton film feels as though it has been considered; everything is just where he wanted it to be, the light is perfect, and the colors exact (even if they have to be made exact in post). Unfortunately, there are times when one watches a Burton movie that it feels as though he has sacrificed story for look. Such is the case with the recently released to Blu-ray Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). read the full review | |
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 | | 19. 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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 | | 20. Drag Me To Hell (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Alison Lohman Director: Sam Raimi | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 10/13/2009 | | Drag Me to Hell - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Chris Beaumont - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 10/11/2009 4:45 PM | | Drag Me to Hell was a film I was really looking forward to. Ever since I first learned of the production, back when Ellen Page was set to star, this was a movie that was high on my radar. Why? Well, it marked director Sam Raimi's return to the horror genre. Fans have been waiting for this ever since 1992's Army of Darkness, which was the last film Raimi made that was even close to horror. In the 1980s Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson were masters of the horror genre, each of them having a number of cult hits under his belt. Then their fates shifted, Hollywood noticed their talents, and they both became heavy hitters on the blockbuster market with their work on the Spider-man and Lord of the Rings films, respectively. read the full review | |
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 | | 23. Van Helsing (Full Screen) | | | Starring: Hugh Jackman Kate Beckinsale Director: Stephen Sommers | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/18/2007 | | Van Helsing - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/4/2009 5:42 PM | |
Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker receive zero writing credit for Stephen Sommers’ lopsided Van Helsing, and you can hear the immortal authors breathing a sigh of relief from beyond the grave. The novelists’ legendary creatures may receive prominent placement in Universal Studio’s big-budget rollercoaster ride, but the half-baked ideas propping up the mediocre monster mash belong solely to writer/director Sommers – for better or for worse. Van Helsing ends up as a high-concept adrenaline rush that never stops generating lesser concepts over its elongated 145-minute run time. read the full review | |
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 | | 46. Underworld:rise Of The Lycans | | | Starring: Michael Sheen Rhona Mitra Director: Patrick Tatopoulos | | Format: DVD Release Date: 10/27/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/1/2009 5:39 PM | |
Upon first description, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans appears completely unnecessary, even for one of the Underworld movies, which, like the Resident Evil pictures, are well-practiced in the art of spinning inessential straw into inessential off-season box-office gold. Rise of the Lycans is a prequel, seeking to explain in greater detail the mythology-heavy plot turns discussed so endlessly in the very first Underworld movie: How and why vampires and werewolves came to so loathe each other. The reasons, it turns out, are not dissimilar to what I faintly recall as the central conflict from the first film: a vampire named Sonja (Rhona Mitra) is in love with a lycan called Lucian (Michael Sheen). read the full review | |
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