Inessential Essentials || BY Simon Abrams || 03 21 2012 5:20 PM

Inessential Essentials: The Sitter's 'Totally Irresponsible' Edition on DVD/Blu-ray

What's the Film: The Sitter (2011), new on DVD and Blu-ray via 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Why it's an Inessential Essential: Director David Gordon Green’s transition from being an American indie darling to a reviled slacker-comedy pumper-outter is kind of astonishing. One minute, he’s being praised for being the Terrence Malick-inspired director of such films as George Washington and All The Real Girls; the next he’s being put down for making lazy pot comedies like Your Highness and The Sitter. But the thing of it is: Green’s comedies don’t deserve to be compared to good movies.
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Inessential Essentials || BY Simon Abrams || 03 16 2012 10:40 AM

Inessential Essentials: Last Temptation of Christ on Blu-ray

Movieline is pleased to introduce Inessential Essentials, a regular feature about some of the most intriguing — if not necessarily most obvious — new home-viewing options on the market. We begin today with a film practically doomed by controversy a quarter-century ago, resurrected for DVD and finally given the treatment it truly deserves this week on Blu-ray. — Ed.

What's the Film: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), new on Blu-ray via Criterion Collection
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