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 | | 5. Angels & Demons coming soon! | | | Starring: Tom Hanks Director: Ron Howard | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/24/2009 |  | Angels and Demons - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/13/2009 6:42 PM | |
Slow and steady doesn't always win the race. Take Ron Howard's adaptations of Dan Brown's riveting bestsellers. Both The Da Vinci Code and its sequel, Angels and Demons, are competently made, commendably acted historical thrillers set against picturesque international backdrops. Yet for some reason, neither comes close to duplicating the urgent pacing of Brown's crackling source material. It annoys me to report this because, pacing aside, Angels is a good film that finds a better balance between exposition and action than its predecessor. (Too much talk turned Howard's Da Vinci into a snoozer.) read the full review | |
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 | | 11. El Dorado | | | Starring: James Caan Robert Mitchum Director: Howard Hawks | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/19/2009 | | El Dorado - DVD Review By: Paul Brenner - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/16/2009 11:40 PM | |
Howard Hawks's penultimate film is a canny reshuffling of his own Rio Bravo as he performs a loose and extended mediation on his favorite themes of loyalty and professionalism. John Wayne plays Cole Thornton, a gun for hire claiming a job with a land-grabbing cattle baron (Ed Asner). Cole accepts the job until he finds out that his old pal J.P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum, in one of his finest late career performances) is the town sheriff. Cole switches sides but not before being shot by a put-upon rancher's daughter, Joey (Michele Carey), who thinks Cole is still working for Jason. With the bullet lodged near his spine, Cole rejects a risky operation and leaves town looking for work. read the full review | |
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 | | 21. Iron Man Ultimate Edition (Blu-Ray/2 Discs) | | | Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow Robert Downey Director: Jon Favreau | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 9/30/2008 | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Iron Man - Blu-Ray Review By: J.D. McNamara - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 10/1/2008 8:12 PM | | Iron Man is a film that comic book junkies will no doubt love, but it also appeals to those who generally shy away from the superhero genre because it retains a relevance to the world we live in today. War, weapons and terrorism are all hot-button issues surging through the daily news, and Iron Man definitely has a contribution to make to that discussion. read the full review | |
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 | | 29. Awake | | | Starring: Jessica Alba Terrence Howard Director: Joby Harold | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/27/2009 | | Awake - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/7/2008 4:31 PM | |
Surprising, really, that "anesthetic awareness" -- helpless, immobile and, it should be noted, very rare consciousness during surgery -- hasn't been explored in a thriller before. Or maybe it has and I don't remember; that would explain why Awake sounds so novel but feels so familiar. In Joby Harold's film, young millionaire Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) is undergoing a risky heart transplant operation when he realizes the anesthetic isn't working as it should -- he is completely and silently paralyzed, but continues to hear and feel everything around him. read the full review | |
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 | | 44. Gone with The Wind coming soon! | | | Starring: Leslie Howard Vivien Leigh Director: Victor Fleming | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/17/2009 | | Gone With the Wind - DVD Review By: David Bezanson - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/6/2009 9:42 PM | |
One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great. Dozens of uncredited screenwriters (including F. Scott Fitzgerald, briefly) and hundreds of actors were marshaled by David O. Selznick for this effort. The resulting four-hour epic is, inflation-adjusted, still the highest-grossing movie of all time -- and it deserves to be. For millions of people, Gone With the Wind has helped to define the myth and reality of America’s most tragic (and much-misunderstood) period of history, the Civil War and Reconstruction. read the full review | |
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