Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and 5 Other Nerd Classics on DVD
While Edgar Wright's criminally under-loved Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (out November 9 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment) pushed a lot of envelopes -…
On DVD: 15-Disc Tonight Show Box Promises More Than It Delivers
As with most things in life, how much you enjoy Tonight: 4 Decades of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Respond2 Entertainment) will depend a great deal on what…
5 Halloween Horror DVDs You Can Show Your Kids With Minimal Psychological Damage
Assuming you've been able to shield your children from the Hostel and Saw movies on DVD (not to mention the scarier selections in Movieline's Halloween 25), there are…
On DVD: 4 Classic Television Series That Should Get a Second Life
Two of this week's classic TV releases on DVD truly span the spectrum from sublime to ridiculous, but they also whet the appetite for the many boob-tube treasures that…
Sigourney Weaver on Avatar, James Cameron and Letting the Alien Prequel Go
"You have five minutes." That's a phrase to put fear in the heart of any journalist, but there are worse ways to spend 300 seconds than in the presence of Sigourney…
On DVD: This Halloween, Bring Home the Crazy, Voluptuous Horror of House
Singularly eccentric filmmakers making flat-out bonkers movies has led to a treasure-trove of films that are so uniquely awful in an outsider-art kind of way that…
On DVD: I Am Comic Director Jordan Brady Gets Serious About Humor
"A series of talking heads does not a movie make," says comedian-turned-filmmaker Jordan Brady, and that automatically puts him ahead of about 70 percent of the…
On DVD: 5 Musicals That Haven't Lost Their WTF-ness
This week's extras-laden Blu-ray releases of Moulin Rouge! and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (both from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) spotlight how quickly…
On DVD: How Showgirls, Clash of the Titans and Other Awful Movies Went From Hell to Purgatory
This week's release of a remastered The Opposite Sex from Warner Archive -- not to mention the campy glow of a certain Cher film on the horizon -- serves as a potent…
Francis Ford Coppola on New Apocalypse Now, Influencing Tropic Thunder and the Downside of CGI
"My movie is not about Vietnam," Francis Coppola once famously noted about his epic Apocalypse Now. "My movie is Vietnam." And now you, too, can have Vietnam -- or…
On DVD: How to Train Your Dragon, by the Directors Disney Let Get Away
One of the most profitable fields in the movies today -- and thus the most competitive -- is feature animation. Ever since Disney's animation division came roaring back…
On DVD: Score, Sex and Lucia Make the Most of Equal-Opportunity Nudity
When John Cameron Mitchell set out to make his explicit opus Shortbus, he talked about wanting to make a movie where the sex scenes revealed something about the…
Saturday: Join Movieline and Phyllis Diller for I Am Comic at the Bel-Air Film Festival!
Phyllis Diller continues to reverberate through pop culture -- from the women in comedy who acknowledge her as a trailblazer to Jane Lynch's bit as a Diller-like comic…
DVD Zeitgeist: Gay Teens and the Bullies Who Love Them
You can't scan through the news these days without hearing about another tragic teen suicide and the relentless bullying that prompted it. But sadly, this is anything…
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