Okay, so what jerk-off film fan DIDN’T have a nerdgasm when they heard Criterion was going Blu-Ray? Raise your hand, because you have to turn in your elitist card NOW! But seriously, Criterion announcing Blu-Ray support was one of the best announcements so far for the format, and the initial line-up wasn’t too shabby [...]

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Stop me if I’m going out on a limb here but odds are many of you helped Iron Man reach that $315 million box office plateau its sitting on right about now. Since I’m making that assumption, I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say that most of you are planning on buying [...]

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If someone told Japanese author Futaro Yamada that his book The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, written in 1959, would become a multimedia explosion some 45 years later, I’m sure he wouldn’t have believed it. But that’s exactly what happened to the material, which is certainly ripe for the picking. A Romeo and Juliet style [...]

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In  1970, Dick Cavett was interviewing Mick Jagger, front man for The Rolling Stones. He asks Mick “Can you see yourself doing the same thing when you’re 60?” to which Mick replies, without a blink, “Absolutely, easily.” If he believed it or not, he didn’t lie as he, and the rest of the band, [...]

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I feel the need… the need for speed.
With dialogue like that, combined with a quintessential 80’s soundtrack and an approach that showcased the might and superiority of the U.S. during the final days of the Cold War, its no wonder that Top Gun has gone on to become a decade defining film. If that [...]

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After creeping me out with the dead-eyed characters of Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis takes another stab at a film populated entirely by CGI. This time, he tackles the Old English epic poem, Beowulf. While the film does contain fair amount of the source material, writers Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary made some changes to [...]

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The legacy of the Godfather trilogy is undeniable. The original is one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. The sequel could be the best sequel of all time. The three-quel… well, not really the best of anything.
A new release of the series has been imminent for quite some time, with news [...]

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There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, is a film that I felt belonged almost instantaneously in the category of masterpiece upon first viewing. Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel, Oil!, Anderson has changed the focus from corporate and political injustice to the study of the psychology and sheer will of one man who [...]

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Way back in January, Cloverfield was finally unleashed upon us. Months and months of hype originally gave me mixed feelings but I couldn’t argue with the final results. It gave me a monster movie that I thought would never happen again after Roland Emmerich destroyed the genre with his disastrous Godzilla remake a decade [...]

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Way back when we were all arguing over whether HD or Blu-Ray was better , a lot of people looked towards the king of DVD companies, Criterion, to see which format they were going to back. Their answer was simple: they had no clue either and were going to wait it out to see [...]

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