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 | | 2. Milk | | | Starring: Josh Brolin Emile Hirsch Director: Gus Van Sant | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/11/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | Milk - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/27/2009 5:25 PM | |
Thirty years before Sen. Barack Obama broke through a significant political color barrier, Harvey Milk tore down a similar wall that was obstructing America's gay community from holding political office. Milk finds experimental auteur Gus Van Sant taking cautious steps back toward the mainstream to celebrate Harvey's accomplishments. Van Sant's tender human-interest story, which showcases Sean Penn's considerable talents, is a closer relative to earlier efforts such as Finding Forrester or Good Will Hunting than to recent, abstruse features like Elephant, the spare Gerry, or the haunting Last Days. read the full review | |
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 | | 11. Shortbus | | | Starring: Raphael Barker Director: John Cameron Mitchell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 3/13/2007 | | Shortbus - DVD By: Don Willmott - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/2/2007 6:07 PM | |
John Cameron Mitchell 's thesis in Shortbus harkens back to E.M. Forster's classic exhortation: "Only connect." In Mitchell's world, however, a big part of connection is sexual connection, and a big part of sexual connection is the ability to give and enjoy earth-shattering orgasms. Mitchell's characters are in search of sexual connection, and it's a shocking, hardcore search that brings intensely graphic (and real) sex to mainstream cinema for the first time. To put it another way: Oh. My. God. read the full review | |
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 | | 16. Charlie Wilson's War (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Julia Roberts Philip Seymour Hoffman Director: Mike Nichols | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/12/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Charlie Wilson's War - DVD Review By: Jay Antani - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/21/2008 7:31 PM | |
Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made two exceedingly smart choices in adapting George Crile's book Charlie Wilson's War. First, they consented to a brisk 95-minute running time, rather than fall prey to the "prestige" mentality that can saddle such projects, and that bloats them out to beyond two hours. The other choice was leavening their material with a snappy, devil-may-care attitude -- a sure-fire strategy to skim over their story's weakest areas of story and character development.
Charlie Wilson's War is entertaining, and that's about the extent of it. read the full review | |
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 | | 29. Being There (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Peter Sellers Director: Hal Ashby | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 2/3/2009 | | Being There - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: El Bicho - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 2/19/2009 5:57 PM | | Directed by Hal Ashby and adapted by Jerzy Kosinki from his novel, Being There tells the story of the appropriately named Chance, a simple-minded man who finds himself gaining power and prestige in America because he is able to fill a need within people that they project upon him. Chance, played by Peter Sellers in one of his finest performances, is immediately revealed to be obsessed with television. No matter what room of the townhouse he goes to, there’s a television set and Chance turns it on. read the full review | |
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 | | 32. Heroes-Season 1 | | | Starring: Adrian Pasdar Ali Larter | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/28/2007 | User Rating: 5 | | Heroes - Season 1 - DVD Review By: Kelly West - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 9/4/2007 8:53 PM | | What creator Tim Kring has done with the series shows that he recognizes that TV is a very different medium than film. Obviously, a TV series has to have a story compelling enough to carry the show through a 20-something episodes. Unlike a movie, which is only a couple of hours long, a TV series needs to find a balance between delivering regular conclusions so that the viewers feel satisfied, while also setting up new twists and developments, which will keep the viewers wanting to come back. read the full review | |
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