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Twenty-five years after it was first released, Fingers, the once-controversial first film of James L. Toback ’66, is making a comeback. Recently released on DVD, it was screened to a full house at the Carpenter Center for Visual Art last Friday...
...most remarkable things about covering the war with the U.S. Army," says Perry, who is embedded with a combat unit of the 3rd Infantry Division, "is how close to home we are on the other side of the world." There are nightly showings of Hollywood movies on DVD and "enough peanut butter and jelly for, well, an army." What disturbs him, however, is just how little he and the troops know of the people around them and the ancient land they inhabit. "I see others--Bedouins camping in the desert, families turning their cars around as they spot our approaching...
...unruly the late-night Brattle audience will be, but give the experience a shot regardless. This 1998 adaptation of writer Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo opus was unjustly roasted when it premiered at Cannes and flopped at the box office in the same month, but its recent DVD release by the prestigious Criterion Collection is rehabilitating its reputation. Oh, and the film? Its a hilariously anarchic screed about the death of the sixties and the bankruptcy of polite society, starring Johnny Depp (sensational) and Benecio del Toro and featuring everybody from Cameron Diaz to Tobey Maguire. Tuesday, April...
...owns Rocky Horror on video and DVD and has watched it more times than she can count...
...Michael Moore. They're the CHUBBCHUBBS, the little Tweety look-alikes featured in the cartoon that won the Oscar for best short animated film. The ChubbChubbs were originally created to test animation software that Sony Imageworks was developing, but now execs are grooming them for a stand-alone DVD release and possibly a full-length feature. The story of The ChubbChubbs! revolves around Meeper, a resident of the planet Glorf, who--well, the story doesn't matter. What does matter is that these furry little critters are more merchandisable than a herd of Ewoks drinking Diet Pepsi...