DVD
Of Dolls And Murder
Susan Marks
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
Of Dolls And Murder is a documentary about the work of Baltimore forensics pioneer Frances Glessner Lee. The best parts of the film show he...
Roger Corman's Cult Classics All-Night Marathon: The Nurses Collection
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
Roger Corman's "Nursing Cycle" was one of the great low-budget box-office bonanzas of the early '70s. Packing drive-ins and grindhouses, th...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
As an exercise in research, I read some of the original reviews for A Streetcar Named Desire, both the 1951 film and the original Broadway...
The Wicker Tree [Blu-Ray]
Robin Hardy
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
Widely considered a classic of atypical horror, Robin Hardy's 1973 film, The Wicker Man, carefully walked the line of bizarre comedy and in...
Brokedown Palace
Jonathan Kaplan
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
Just to get it out of the way, yes, the depiction of Thai prisons in Brokedown Palace is mildly amusing, as is the strained voiceover frami...
A Cool, Dry Place
John N. Smith
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
The titular "cool, dry place" refers to a third act anecdote and metaphor for the relationship between the separated Russell (Vince Vaughn)...
Don Juan DeMarco [Blu-Ray]
Jeremy Leven
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
Here's what I find amusing about escapist, mid-'90s rom-com Don Juan DeMarco: the titular, self-professed Don Juan (Johnny Depp) winds up i...
The Bodyguard [Blu-Ray]
Mick Jackson
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
When Whitney Houston passed away, I made a joke to some friends― really, the equivalent of a Facebook status update ― about som...