Articles by Alan Bacchus

Forgetting Dad

Rich Minnich and Matt Sweetwood

PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

By the very nature of the relationship, children tend to hold their fathers high up on pedestals as untouchable figures of honesty, integri...

Rise Up

Luciano Blotta

PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

Early on in Rise Up we're told that no smaller, poorer, more insignificant country in the world has had a greater impact on music around th...

Sweety: The Friends, Betrayal and Murder of Maja Bradaric

Laura Meijer

PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

Dutch filmmaker Laura Meijer's artistic true-crime documentary is a haunting film that attempts to understand how a 16-year-old high school...

2010: The Year We Make Contact [Blu-Ray]

Peter Hyams

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2009

Let's just get it out of the way: Peter Hyams is not Stanley Kubrick. With that in mind you can then accept the 1984 "sequel" to Kubrick's...

Dennis Miller HBO Specials

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2009

For fans of the intellectually sarcastic stand up comedy of Dennis Miller, a three-disc DVD set of his successful HBO specials is now avail...

Timecrimes

Nacho Vigalondo

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2009

Timecrimes is released under Magnet Releasing's Six Shooter Film Series, a group of international, genre-bending films that also begat Let...

Hank and Mike

Matthiew Klinck

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2009

Hank and Mike was perhaps meant to be the Bad Santa of Easter films, a foul-mouthed, irresponsible raunch comedy about two costumed Easter...

Rachel Getting Married [Blu-Ray]

Jonathan Demme

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2009

With all the over-the-top praise heaped on this "Jonathan Demme comeback" picture, there should be a support group for haters of Rachel Get...