 | | 1. 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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 | | 7. Sabrina the Teenage Witch-5th Season | | | Starring: Beth Broderick Caroline Rhea | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/17/2009 |  | Sabrina the Teenage Witch Season - The Fifth Season - DVD Review By: Mark Kalriess - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 3/24/2009 10:05 PM | | For those who have never seen the show, here is quick overview. Sabrina Spellman (played by Melissa Joan Hart) is half-mortal and half-witch. She is sent to live with her two aunts, Aunt Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and Aunt Zelda (Beth Broderick), during high school. Her aunts have a talking cat, Salem Saberhagen (Nick Bakay) who was formerly a witch and has been imprisoned as a cat. On Sabrina’s sixteenth birthday, she found out that she was a witch. The show deals with Sabrina trying to balance her regular life as a teenage girl with her life as a witch. Many of the episodes follow the same formula. Sabrina has a small problem, tries to fix it with magic, makes everything worse, and then asks her aunts for help. read the full review | |
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 | | 11. Hannah Montana: The Movie (DVD+Blu-ray+Digital Copy) | | | Starring: Miley Cyrus Billy Ray Cyrus Director: Peter Chelsom | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 8/18/2009 |  | Hannah Montana: The Movie - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Ed Perkis - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 8/14/2009 1:15 PM | | Its not like Disney is going to kill the golden goose by having a Hannah Montana movie be anything but a bigger version of the television show. It would have been more interesting, however, to do SOMETHING different or unique or daring with the character. Instead, the G-rated good times include lots of falling off ladders, falling into hay piles, falling off horses, and ferrets running up the mayors pants leg...seriously. In between, Miley gets into trouble by never acting rationally or intelligently in any situation. read the full review | |
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 | | 13. Hannah Montana the Movie | | | Starring: Miley Cyrus Billy Ray Cyrus Director: Peter Chelsom | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/18/2009 |  | Hannah Montana: The Movie - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/7/2009 7:48 PM | |
Hannah Montana: The Movie acted as my official introduction to the identity crisis that is Miley Cyrus and her pop-music-powered alter ego. I have two boys, after all. The farthest we've ventured down Disney's empowered-female food chain is Kim Possible (which, for the record, deserves its own live-action film adaptation in the vein of Tomb Raider, yet better). But now, at least, I understand the hoopla surrounding this spunky, cool, and charismatic young performer. Her overly produced musical anthems aren't my cup of tea, but I get why so many people line up to drink what she's serving. read the full review | |
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 | | 14. Heart of the Game | | | Director: Ward Serrell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/28/2009 |  | The Heart of the Game - DVD By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/15/2007 9:15 PM | |
What is it about sports that makes us snap to attention? It’s been a good 12 years since Steve James went and blew everyone’s mind with Hoop Dreams, and we’re still obsessed with sports as tool for personal triumph. Although, it hasn’t gone all-too-well with narratives (I offer Glory Road, Remember the Titans, and For Love of the Game into evidence) but as far as documentaries go, the reputation seems pretty untarnished. Audiences, for quite some time, love the idea of the underdog winning and society has been grateful enough to give us plenty of stories to turn into tear-drenched sentiment and well-meaning Channel 6 special reports. Ward Serrill knows this, but his documentary isn’t unforgivable tear jerking, at least not completely. read the full review | |
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