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 | | 2. Do the Right Thing (Blu-ray) new! | | | Starring: Danny Aiello Spike Lee Director: Spike Lee | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 6/30/2009 |  | Do the Right Thing - 20th Anniversary Edition - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Dusty Somers - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 6/29/2009 10:47 AM | | Visceral, challenging, immediate, and uncomfortable, Do the Right Thing hasn’t lost any of its bite over the last 20 years. Often considered Spike Lee’s masterwork — I’d say it’s definitely in the top three — it will likely endure better than any of his other films. The racial questions the film provokes are still relevant now even if the circumstances surrounding most issues of race aren’t quite as inflamed as in the film. Lee himself certainly thinks the questions still need to be asked. Do the Right Thing works because despite the over-the-top nature of many of the events (even this is debatable), it’s not purely a message movie. read the full review | |
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 | | 6. Pride and Prejudice (Mini Series) (Special Edition) | | | Starring: Colin Firth Director: Simon Langton | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/25/2003 | User Rating: 4.4 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Pride and Prejudice (1995) - DVD Review By: David Bezanson - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/3/2009 5:36 PM | |
Most film adaptations of classic books are inferior to the books they are based on. This is partly because the written word allows more nuance than the camera, but also because great books don't always have enough plotting or action to make great movies, and film adaptations often overcompensate by rewriting the book in a quest to make it more cinematic. The most obvious recent example (speaking of quests) is The Lord of the Rings: Peter Jackson omitted key scenes, changed others, and generally jacked up Tolkien's fanatically-loved bestseller for no good reason. read the full review | |
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 | | 7. Terminator | | | Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger Director: James Cameron | | Format: DVD Release Date: 3/6/2007 | User Rating: 5 | | The Terminator - DVD Review By: Max Messier - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/1/2009 5:39 PM | |
I'll never forget the first time I saw James Camerons The Terminator. I must have watched that movie at least 100 times during my youth. But during the 101st viewing, the VHS copy I stole from my uncle Daves video collection was eaten by my crappy old-school, top-loading VHS player. Damn, that sucked. The Terminator stands as a personal favorite. Schwarzenegger was in his prime in the 1980s -- in guilty pleasures like Commando, Raw Deal, Predator, Conan The Barbarian, and The Running Man. But he gave many kids my age something to hang on to during the Reagan years. Schwarzenegger was our generation's John Wayne, a muscle-bound bodyguard extracting his own kind of vengeance from a cold and dangerous world. read the full review | |
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 | | 12. Enchanted April | | | Starring: Miranda Richardson Director: Mike Newell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/5/2009 | | 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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