"The Christian Traveler" sounds like a Travel Channel show for believers, but it's the most recent collection from Questar Entertainment and Reader's Digest, bundled films pertaining to Biblical sites
When in August of 2011 Warner Bros. decided to release four Sylvester Stallone pictures on Blu-ray, I had to wonder anew at how studios make their decisions about these things. I also had to wonder wh
Like "The Battle of Algiers" (1966), "Outside the Law" (2010) tries to offer a balanced view of the 1954-62 war that was fought by Algerian nationalist groups seeking independence from their French oc
DVD Town's Michael Hiscoe called it "not much more than a colorful distraction from reality," but I beg to differ. "Rio" is the closest the 20th Century Fox animation crew has come to matching the loo
"Donnie Darko" is a bit like a teenager: brooding, complex, rebellious, and difficult to comprehend. Which is perfect, because the 2001 film is about a title character (Jake Gyllenhaal) who's all thos
Some films have a wise air about them. Just as "When Harry Met Sally" captured the essence of male-female relationships, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" conveys everything that is hilariously and poigna
"Overboard" (1987) is a male fantasy. It's a reverse Cinderella tale. It's also the best of two romantic comedies that Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell made together (the other being 1984's "Swing Shift.
Like fellow writer Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard has made a nice little career out of creating wacky characters who live in sunny climes and get themselves involved with murders, squeeze-plays, con men
"How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this? " The question you're probably asking right now is, Why are the folks at Paramount re-releasing a Blu-ray edition of "Ferris Bue
"You vultures…circling the city…tearing off the flesh from everything that is innocent. " --Hobo Directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino reignited the horror-exploitation genre with their do
"Limitless" is a film that strikes me as being ironically limited by a concept that doesn't hold up if you think about it too much. What if you could take a pill that would allow you to use 100 perce
In the 1950s and 1960s, a group of British novelists and playwrights came to be identified as the "angry young men. " The writers themselves were "angry young men" (though writer Shelagh Delaney was,