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 | | 17. Star Trek 2-Wrath of Khan | | | Starring: Leonard Nimoy Ricardo Montalban Director: Nicholas Meyer | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/22/2009 |  | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/11/2009 5:42 PM | |
It is nearly gospel now among Trekkies that the second Star Trek installment, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, is the undisputed best of the series, and will likely never meet its equal. Inspired by classic literature like Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, and King Lear -- along with classic navy films -- Nicholas Meyer's major directorial debut is indeed the best of the series and it's a classic sci-fi flick on its own, outside the Trek mythology altogether. read the full review | |
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 | | 25. Quick and the Dead | | | Starring: Sharon Stone Director: Sam Raimi | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/23/2006 | User Rating: 4.5 | | The Quick and the Dead - DVD Review By: James Brundage - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/28/2009 5:42 PM | |
All right, all right, I'm sorry I haven't been seeing the movies I should. I haven't seen A Simple Plan yet, I admit it. Everyone's been nagging me, bothering me about it, telling me: "James, it's such a great film." But I haven't seen it. Anyway, that apology aside, I'm very glad I took time to watch Sam Raimi's 1995 film The Quick and the Dead. About three weeks ago, I was talking with a friend of mine after seeing the excellent Miramax/Universal effort Shakespeare in Love. read the full review | |
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 | | 26. 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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 | | 27. Saw 3 (Unrated Widescreen) | | | Starring: Tobin Bell Director: Darren Lynn Bousman | | Format: DVD Release Date: 7/1/2008 | | Saw III - Unrated Edition - DVD Review By: Brian Holcomb - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 1/28/2007 11:22 AM | | For all its nervous noise and mechanical tension,Saw III isn't very scary, just annoying. Their popularity aside, these are hard films to enjoy. They are designed to fill the viewer up with the most primal tension of bodily dismemberment and then leave them hanging without catharsis. This is why the theme of Saw III is utter nonsense. Forgiveness' Maybe in real life we could learn a thing or two about the emptiness of revenge but in this loud, screeching video game meat grinder, everything is reduced to the lizard brain. KILL! CUT! SMASH! SURVIVE! DESTROY! read the full review | |
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 | | 35. 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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