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 | | 6. Quantum of Solace (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Daniel Craig Mathieu Amalric Director: Marc Forster | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 3/24/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | Quantum of Solace - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Aaron Peck - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 3/29/2009 10:24 AM | | Quantum of Solace, the new Bond flick, is a disappointment plain and simple. It’s incoherent in story and style. Bond is not the wise-cracking, cocky, womanizing, egomaniac we all have grown to love. Instead he has been transformed into a dour, mindless, kicking and punching action hero. Solace is the first ever direct sequel in the Bond franchise. It starts about an hour after Casino Royale ended. Bond is out for revenge. He’s trying to find out who killed his beloved Vesper. Don’t remember who Vesper is? You’d better brush up on Royale before seeing this movie or nothing will make sense. read the full review | |
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 | | 8. Trading Places | | | Starring: Eddie Murphy Dan Aykroyd Director: John Landis | | Format: DVD Release Date: 6/5/2007 | User Rating: 5 | | Trading Places - DVD By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/2/2007 6:03 AM | |
Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd have made some bad movies in their day, but Trading Places is one of their respective bests.
Now legendary, the film has been referenced and homaged to an extent matched by few other recent films. It's a classic story: Greedy Phildadelphia commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (the inimatable Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) bet the sum of $1 on a "scientific experiment," namely that they can depose their successful managing director Louis (Aykroyd) and replace him with a common street bum named Valentine (Murphy).
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 | | 15. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter Johnny Depp Director: Tim Burton | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/27/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/24/2008 2:14 AM | |
Quite possibly the strangest holiday release since Miramax rolled out its bloodsucking Dracula update in December 2000, Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street reproduces Stephen Sondheim's moody musical as a theatrically macabre vengeance play that gleefully soaks its numbers in gallons of gooey, red stage blood. It's a mesmerizing mess of a film that alternates its high notes with blatant missteps. Yet for all its unmistakable faults, it casts such a complete spell that I'm chomping at the bit to see it again (and again). Where other studios might have demanded proven singers for the parts, Paramount (bravely?) permits Burton to practice extreme nepotism. read the full review | |
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 | | 31. Quantum of Solace | | | Starring: Daniel Craig Mathieu Amalric Director: Marc Forster | | Format: DVD Release Date: 3/24/2009 | User Rating: 4 | | Video Reviews Available: 2 | | Quantum of Solace - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/13/2009 5:38 PM | |
When Daniel Craig was announced as the next 007, the collective groan from the Ian Fleming faithful was almost loud enough to drown out the uniform shrug of the post-modern moviegoer. Where once he was the mightiest of Cold War icons, Britain's own James Bond has been marginalized by a combination of contemporary moviemaking and PC social posturing. Every few years, producers retrofit the franchise to match the perceived interest level of the ever-shrinking demo. After the excellent reboot in Casino Royale, Craig's second stint as the celebrated secret agent, Quantum of Solace, is as confusing as its title. read the full review | |
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 | | 37. A Time to Kill | | | Starring: Samuel L. Jackson Matthew McConaughey Director: Joel Schumacher | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/11/2008 | | A Time to Kill - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/16/2009 7:45 PM | |
Remember the hoopla over the novel A Time To Kill? It was celebrated author John Grisham's second book -- actually his first book -- the book he published after The Firm became a hit. The book that no one wanted before he was famous. The book, apparently, that, if it hadn't had his name on it, would never have been published. Now it's the fourth Grisham movie to be made, continuing in grand fashion that franchise of increasingly average film versions of his increasingly average writing. read the full review | |
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 | | 38. Last House on the Left-Collectors Edition | | | Starring: Lucy Grantham David Hess Director: Wes Craven | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/24/2009 | | Last House on the Left - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/13/2009 5:25 PM | |
It has one of the most unusual filmic foundations for a horror film. It's actually based on Ingmar Bergman's Academy Award winning film The Virgin Spring. It also has one of the movies' most memorable ad campaigns. Teens in the early '70s still hear the haunting tagline -- "To avoid fainting, keep repeating 'It's only a movie... It's only a movie...'" -- in their deepest, darkest nightmares. And as with many examples of early post-modern macabre, Last House on the Left is part exploitation, part exercise in frustration, and just a tad overhyped as to its ability to scare. read the full review | |
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 | | 45. Robocop | | | Starring: Nancy Allen Peter Weller Director: Paul Verhoeven | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/22/2007 | | RoboCop - DVD Review By: Mark Athitakis - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/10/2007 9:26 PM | |
RoboCop was released in 1987, and its the sort of film that looks like it was made by somebody who knew America only from what he read in newspapers. Which may be close to the truth; Dutch director Paul Verhoeven had been living in the U.S. for less than a decade when he made this, his first big-budget Hollywood film. The script gleefully takes on every myth told about the U.S. during the Reagan 80s: Cities are dens of evil and full of constant gunplay, authority has been brought to heel by capitalism, technology has crushed our humanity to atoms, the media destroys the morals of children. read the full review | |
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