My teenage son has read every one of the Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, and as our family watched “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” the sequel to the 2010 fantasy-adventure
If you watch any international news at all, you’ve no doubt seen clips of bulls hoofing it through the narrow cobblestone streets of Pamplona, chasing, running alongside, and being pursued by throngs
Writer-director Peter Berg must have paid attention to the criticism that “Zero Dark Thirty” received last year: that there was too much behind-the-scenes drama and not enough focus on the actual SEAL
The meeting of the World Cinema Project and the Criterion Collection is a fortuitous one. Criterion's stated mission to distribute “important classic and contemporary films” seems modest and straight
Musicals often make the transition from stage to screen, but operas? Not so much. Opera is highbrow, while movies play to the masses. In the case of “Carmen Jones,” though, the transition had an e
*“Grey Gardens” was released by Criterion in 2001 with Spine Number 123. In 2006 they released the follow-up version assembled from outtakes, “The Beales of Grey Gardens” on a separate disc (Spine Num
Anybody who seeks power almost certainly can't be trusted with it. The ambitious unnamed protagonist (Gian Maria Volonté) of “Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion” (1970) would openly admit that
This is my third tour through “Nashville” (1975) and it will probably be my last. When Criterion first announced Robert Altman's “Nashville” as an upcoming release, my Facebook feed exploded with hos
It is difficult to imagine a more fan-friendly artifact than the documentary “One Direction: This Is Us.” Following the planet-conquering band on their recent tour of world domination, “This Is Us” mi
I love a good thriller. And “Prisoners” is probably the best thriller I’ve seen since “Zodiac,” which I happen to think was the best film made from 2000 to 2009. Not flashy, but instead gritty, gr
Some TV series get tired and stale after just a few seasons, with writers recycling plots, adding babies, or shaking up the cast to try to breathe new life into them. But **“The Simpsons”**keeps rolli
So many titles are released as special “anniversary editions” that offer no new bonus features or content that it’s almost a relief to see that the “Big: 25th Anniversary” Blu-ray offers two ways