Gift Guide: Kelley Deal Makes a Heck of a Scarf
Kelley Deal has had an unpredictable couple of decades -- she co-founded The Breeders (with her twin sister Kim), worked as a computer programmer, kicked heroin, helped…
Gift Guide: These Pillowcases Tell a Story (Literally)
Scottish visual artist David Shrigley has worked in a variety of media from cartoons to music videos to spoken-word pieces. Now he can add "bedding" to the list, with…
What If The Expendables Were a Chick Flick?
Sylvester Stallone shrewdly put together an all-star team of '80s action stars as the main gimmick behind this year's The Expendables (out this week on DVD from…
The Last Airbender and 5 Other Stinkers That Didn't Nip Their Child Stars' Careers in the Bud
If you were worried about the fate of young actor Noah Ringer, who starred in M. Night Shymalan's cruddy The Last Airbender (out on DVD this week from Paramount Home…
Metropolis and 5 Other Silent Films That Don't Feel Like Homework
Fritz Lang's sci-fi masterpiece gets a snappy new DVD release with The Complete Metropolis (new from Kino International this week), including long-lost footage that…
Why Hilary Swank's New Flop is Good News for Annette Bening
Oscar night, 2000: Despite overwhelming acclaim for her turn as an embittered, adulterous realtor in American Beauty, an exceedingly pregnant Annette Bening loses the…
5 Beatles Movies Without The Beatles
My iTunes has been telling me all week that today was going to change my life -- but the news that the Beatles catalog is now available via Apple's music service didn't…
Bah, Humbug: 5 Better Scrooges Than Jim Carrey -- and 5 Worse Ones
For those of us who thought Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf was a vast improvement over The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol (out this week from Walt Disney Studios Home…
Ocean's 11 and the Best and Worst of the Rat Pack
So the "legendary" original version of Ocean's 11 (Warner Home Video) makes its Blu-Ray debut this week in conjunction with the film's 50th anniversary. The idea of…
Antichrist and 5 Other Awful Movie Couples
The thought that anyone is dying to sit through Lars von Trier's irritating art-wank Antichrist (now available from The Criterion Collection) for a second time, much…
On DVD: MST3K's Mary Jo Pehl on Bad Movies, Good Jokes and Filthy Lucre
This week, Shout! Factory releases Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XIX (yes, that's 19), featuring four more classic episodes from the show that made it OK to talk…
5 Can't-Miss Performances from the Late Jill Clayburgh
Because of actress Jill Clayburgh's ongoing battle with lymphatic cancer -- which she sadly lost over the weekend at age 66 -- she worked much less in recent years…
Great Moments in Cher: 5 High Points You Won't Find on Her New DVD Set
As arbitrary here's-a-bunch-of-movies-this-studio-owns-on-DVD box sets go, The Cher Collection (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) at least provides something of…
On DVD: What 9 Awful-Accented Actors Could Learn From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
There's lots to love about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, out this week on Blu-ray from MGM Home Entertainment. The "Child Catcher" character continues to scar generation…
Toy Story 3 Director Lee Unkrich on Not Making Movies for Kids and the Future of Woody and Buzz
With Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich directed the year-to-date's top-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing animated film of all time. And he's ready for a vacation…
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