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 | | 16. Changeling | | | Starring: Angelina Jolie John Malkovich Director: Clint Eastwood | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/11/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | Changeling - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/6/2009 5:25 PM | |
Fit snug into the mother superior of self-reflexive roles, Angelina Jolie once again finds herself the eye of the storm in Clint Eastwood's epic melodrama Changeling. Armed with her thick, crimson lips, period duds, and that ever-present cloche, Jolie goes all gooey as Christine Collins, a single mother who finds herself a media fulcrum when she denies that a boy returned to her by the LAPD is Walter, her son who had been kidnapped five months prior. read the full review | |
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 | | 17. 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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 | | 19. 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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 | | 22. 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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 | | 43. Duplicity | | | Starring: Clive Owen Julia Roberts Director: Tony Gilroy | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/3/2010 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Duplicity - DVD Review By: Chris Barsanti - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/14/2009 4:48 PM | |
It doesn't take much to make the life of a spy look great. The travel, expense account, sense of danger, all that role-playing -- it's catnip for most people, whose greatest investment in daily skullduggery tends to be making their boss believe they're actually working. In Duplicity, however, writer/director Tony Gilroy ups the ante by reveling in all of the above while throwing in a keen sense of fun and maybe even a dash of honest-to-god romance. It's a dashing and bright entertainment that aims to please without scraping the floor for your approval. In other words, about as different a world from Gilroy's Michael Clayton as could be imagined. read the full review | |
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 | | 44. Lost (Complete First Season) | | | Starring: Terry O'Quinn Dominic Monaghan Director: Jeffrey Abrams | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/28/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | Lost: Season One - DVD Review By: Joel Meares - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/28/2009 1:44 AM | |
Agatha Christie wrote something in excess of 80 novels. Christie was a practiced and a brilliant mystery taleteller, a commercial writer who exploited her full and total grasp of the mystery genre to massive popular success. Each plot was intricately realized, no facet of the mystery introduced that could not be resolved. Such is the enjoyment of good mysteries: a confidence that although clues and complications have confused us for now, in the end the equation will make sense. We should not know the ending, but it should not be impossible to work out. Lost, 2004’s hit about a group of plane-wreck survivors milling about on a mysterious island, crashes and burns on its inability to handle the genre Christie had mastered. read the full review | |
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 | | 45. 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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