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 | | 16. Underworld (2-Disc Extended Cut, Unrated) | | | Starring: Kate Beckinsale Director: Len Wiseman | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/28/2007 |  | Underworld - DVD Review By: Annette Cardwell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/3/2009 5:39 AM | |
Underworld’s trailer makes it looks wonderfully slick and dark in the tradition of The Matrix and Blade; but after seeing it, you’ll realize that everything that seemed dazzling was simply stolen and then abused – from its Dark Shadows-meets-Matrix costumes to its Blade weaponry to its Nine Inch Nails video backdrops. Nothing about Underworld is original; it’s a hackneyed, patched-together goth-kid fantasy that I’m convinced was written a 15-year-old boy who wears black eyeliner (think the Saturday Night Live skit “Goth Talk”). read the full review | |
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 | | 24. Van Helsing (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Hugh Jackman Kate Beckinsale Director: Stephen Sommers | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 9/15/2009 | | Van Helsing - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Luigi Bastardo - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 9/17/2009 3:43 AM | | The titular character, one Gabriel Van Helsing, is a monster killer. He is employed by Vatican City, which doubles as an early form of MI6 and even has its own gadget department run by the monks, who invent many highly sophisticated items for the 19th Century. An automatic-firing crossbow with clips. Handheld spinning sawblade thingies (with their own secret power source). A solar bomb. The rest of the 19th Century is also pretty advanced and has such amazing articles as moving pictures. No, I don’t mean the cinema — I mean pictures that move. But, of course, the other kind of moving pictures must have been pretty popular then, too: how else does one explain Van Helsing’s constant John Woo-style of gunplay? read the full review | |
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 | | 36. Thirst coming soon! | | | Starring: Kang-ho Song Director: Chan Wook Park | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/17/2009 | | Thirst (2009) - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/6/2009 9:42 PM | |
The thrill of sin and the thrill of salvation become one and the same in Park Chan-wook's audacious Thirst. Beholden to both Catholic and vampiric mythology, Chan-wook has retrofitted his baroque bloodsucker with concepts of drug addiction, middle-class malaise, sexual fetishes, and disease, to name just a few. Only a production of the highest ambitions, made by well-meaning practitioners, could ever have birthed the oozing, clamorous mess that has ended up onscreen. The setup has nothing but promise. In a rushed opening movement, Father Sang-hyeon (the exceptional Song Kang-ho) is introduced as a well-liked priest with a nonchalant yearn for martyrdom. read the full review | |
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