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Cyrus and 5 Other Disturbing Mother-Son Teams

Mumblecore mavens the Duplass Brothers got raves for their first relatively mainstream effort, this summer's Cyrus (out on DVD this week from Twentieth Century Fox Home…

7 years ago

12 Films of Christmas: Die Hard

As we make our way toward Christmas Day, we asked Movieline DVD Editor Alonso Duralde to share a dozen of his favorite movies from his new book, Have Yourself a Movie…

7 years ago

The A-Team's Sharlto Copley on Budgets, Apartheid and Going Off Script

While this summer's big-budget adaptation of the '80s TV hit The A-Team (out this week from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) may not have been the franchise…

7 years ago

On DVD: Alice in Wonderland and the Other 2010 Movies That Made Us Hate 3-D

Unless your 3-D movie this year was about piranhas or jackassery, odds are that the stereoscopic effect prompted headaches more than it did enthusiasm. Case in point…

7 years ago

DVD: Married...with Children and 5 Other Sitcoms That Nudged the Culture Forward

One of the cornerstones of the then-nascent FOX network in the 1980s, Married...with Children certainly wasn't everybody's cup of tea. But the sitcom -- whose earliest…

7 years ago

On DVD: Big Bad Mama and 5 Other Movies That Introduced Gen-Xers to Sex

From sneaking a peek at naughty postcards from behind the barn to entering "hot three-ways" into Google, youngsters always manage to summon forth the forbidden pleasures…

7 years ago

DVD: Where Does Inception Rank Among Other Great Cinematic Dream Sequences?

Whether you thought Inception (out this week from Warner Home Video) was a stirring piece of cinematic art, a brainy popcorn movie, or a confusing headache-inducer…

7 years ago

On DVD: Frank Capra's Other Christmas Classic Turns 70

Once Thanksgiving is over, It's a Wonderful Life season officially begins. But by the time director Frank Capra ventured to Bedford Falls, he had already made one of the…

7 years ago

4 New Disney Releases to Consider for the Ultimate Fan this Holiday Season

Disney has gotten very savvy about its ferociously devoted audience: Hard-core Mouseketeers can join D23 -- an official, corporation-sponsored fan organization that puts…

7 years ago

On DVD: Standing Ovation is the Movie You Wanted Burlesque To Be

Under the radar of most people -- not including New Beverly Cinema programmer Phil Blankenship, who brought this film to my attention when he booked it as a midnight…

7 years ago

What the Haters Missed in Going the Distance

Every so often, a movie comes into theaters with at least one big target on its back, and then it surprises the naysayers by actually being entertaining and worthwhile…

7 years ago

On DVD: Knight & Day, and Other Movie-Star Match-Ups That Underperformed

Like most Americans, I didn't actually see the action-comedy-romance Knight & Day (out on DVD this week from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) in theaters, but I…

7 years ago

Does Latest 3-D TV Rival the Movies? Movieline Takes It For a Test Spin

The 3-D explosion of the 1950s -- and its re-emergence in the 21st century - had a very specific economic agenda in mind; namely, to get people to stop watching their…

7 years ago

Be Grateful You're Not Spending Thanksgiving with These 5 Movie Families

'Tis the season to begin complaining about spending time with one's family during the holidays. (If anyone reading this is related to me -- I'm not talking about you…

7 years ago

Gift Guide: The Architecture You Can Eat Off Of

Designers Stefano Seletti and Alessandro Zambelli collaborated on this tableware that stacks up so nicely that they're too cool to be locked up in a kitchen cabinet…

7 years ago

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