"Imagine if there was an attack on New York City like 9/11,” actor Annette Bening says in one of this DVD’s extra features, "and then it did...

More linear than a Robert Altman film, less visually seductive than a Paul Thomas Anderson film, writer/director Emilio Estevez’s Bobby Kenn...

The words "meat grinder” come to mind; Apocalypto is a kinetic splatter of ground human flesh with a great plot, strong acting and handful o...

First, the good news: Leonardo Dicaprio’s uneven South African accent isn’t half as distracting as it sounds like it’s going to be from the...

"How are ya?” Funny man Bobby Bittman’s (Eugene Levy) limp catchphrase is an unlikely place to look for the comedic heart of the SCTV beast....

Yet another film about a nearly insane Mexican lured to Paris by his distant mother on the promise of a job illustrating calendars. True to...

For a screenplay with relatively little dialogue, there’s a lot going on in this portrait of small town America and its requisite angst. Obe...

The self-important writer/director commentary is the worst thing about this DVD, which is itself an unnecessary (if competent) remake of the...

"It's like a dream come true," says The Man screenwriter Steve Carpenter during one of this DVD's "making of" featurettes, "Sam and Eugene;...

Al Pacino revisits familiar territory as an ailing gambling mogul guiding a rookie numbers picker up through the ranks of his sports betting...

Despite director Gore Verbinski's insistence (on one the DVD's extra features) that The Weather Man is not a genre piece, the film's explora...

As Anakin Skywalker, Hayden Christensen almost single-handedly wrecked Star Wars: Episode II. His interpretation of developing evil lacked n...

There’s a whiff of post-modern genius running through all five seasons of this beloved homosexual soap opera: that gay Toronto stands in as...

The biggest of Flightplan's many disappointments is that all the cheap narrative trickery that's used to keep its main character in the dark...

For all its claims at having avant-garde roots, The Jacket is shamelessly derivative; it's One Flew Over the Butterfly Effect with a pepperi...

Hostage brims with competence; that's the Bruce Willis touch. The A-list celebrity both produces and stars in this reluctant hero story. But...

Kevin Spacey's five-year obsession with getting the Bobby Darin story down on celluloid manages to avoid full-blown "vanity picture" status...

Director Doug Liman's hot streak (which includes Swingers, Go and The Bourne Identity) comes to an abrupt halt in the genre-confused star ve...

It looks as if director Rob Stefaniuk called in a lot of favours while making his campy sci-fi comedy Phil the Alien. Even at the best of ti...

House of Flying Daggers is more successful as a visual study of forests and the ass-kickers who live there than as the cohesive fable it asp...