There Will Be Blood – 2-Disc Collector’s Edition

Release Date: 4/8/08
The Film
Based on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel, Oil!, There Will Be Blood is one of those films that completely catches you off guard. Part drama and part black comedy, the film is a great American epic that depicts the cutthroat world of oil mining at the turn of the 20th century. […]

There Will Be Blood – 2-Disc Collector’s Edition

Release Date: 4/8/08
The Film
Based on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel, Oil!, There Will Be Blood is one of those films that completely catches you off guard. Part drama and part black comedy, the film is a great American epic that depicts the cutthroat world of oil mining at the turn of the 20th century. […]

Tin Man: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition

Release Date: March 11th, 2008
Running Time: 265 minutes
The Show
After reviewing countless Man Eater Sci-Fi original movies, I can’t say I was too excited about exploring Tin Man. The Wizard of Oz is such an iconic work that it seems ridiculous to try and re-imagine it, like someone trying to remake Star Wars with wacky […]

Frisky Dingo: Season One

Release Date: March 25th, 2008
Running Time: 144 minutes
The Show
Adult Swim has certainly carved its own style of animated programs. Beginning with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Cartoon Network has practically trademarked comedy based on randomness. Frisky Dingo: Season One is another opportunity to put […]

Review: Stop-Loss

* * * 1/2 
Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Victor Rasuk, Timothy Olyphant. Written by Kimberly Peirce and Mark Richard. Directed by Kimberly Peirce. Rated R. 112 minutes. Paramount Pictures, MTV Films.
Stop-Loss, Kimberly Peirce’s moving anti-war polemic is a story of patriotism torn asunder, and not by any axis of evil. In […]

Interview: Jim Sturgess, 21

21 Star Jim Sturgess Goes for Broke in Sin City Tale of Innocence Lost, Lessons Learned
It’s rare that a young actor can enthrall us as Jim Sturgess did in Julie Taymor’s visionary Beatles extravaganza Across the Universe. As Jude, the Liverpool lad caught up in American anti-war protests circa late 60s Greenwich Village, Sturgess […]

Dancing With The Idols for 3/26

Here’s a quick look at the latest losers of the reality hits American Idol and Dancing With the Stars.
AMERICAN IDOL said see ya later to Chikezie, the high-energy crooner who didn’t please with his rendition of I don’t even know what- some song Simon didn’t like. Narrowly making the cut was Syesha. So, congratulations to […]

Lost: Meet Kevin Johnson

Sayid: "Why are you on this boat?"Michael: "I’m here to die."
For me, this episode was all about death. Death figures into what’s going on with the Island in a way that I just don’t understand.
There’s Mikhail Death, where the person just doesn’t die, even after something fatal happens to them. There’s Island Ghost […]

Survivor: Stardust Comes Out Of His Mouth

Malakal, Day 18.  Without Chet’s unparalleled sitting and chicken-whispering skills, the tribe has just fallen apart and they’re starving.  Riiiigggghhhht…  The Malakals debate eating their winged Rewards.  Tracy argues they have three chickens and three weeks left on the island, so it makes perfect sense to start chowing on one a week.  But Ozzy argues […]

Interview: David Schwimmer, Run, Fat Boy, Run

Finding the Human in the Comedy: Director David Schwimmer Balances Funny and Bittersweet in Run, Fat Boy, Run

David Schwimmer ushers in a second act of his career in his directorial debut Run, Fat Boy, Run, the London-set tale of a hapless security guard (Simon Pegg) trying to woo back the affections of the true […]