kind

Take Shelter: DVD Review

You might want to move your home theater setup into your panic room for this Michael Shannon/Jessica Chastain freak-out apocalypse drama....

Read more...

The Dead: BD Review

What's the West African vernacular term for "M O R E  B R A I N S"...?

Read more...

Puss in Boots: BD Review

Puss in Boots roars like a lion on its gorgeous Blu-ray Disc debut....

Read more...

The Brontes of Haworth: DVD Review

This new Acorn Media release takes us to merry England, following the inspirations and histories behind what would become Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights....

Read more...

Shades: DVD Review

This romantic Stephen Tompkinson/Dervla Kirwan ghost tale doesn't add up to much on its debut DVD edition....

Read more...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: BD Review

Somehow this Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock drama got an Oscar nod for Best Picture. This technically stunning Blu-ray edition of the film makes one wonder how that was possible....

Read more...

Laverne & Shirley - The Fifth Season: DVD Review

Turns out Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams really are going to make their dreams come true - doin' it their way....

Read more...

New Year's Eve: BD Review

Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ice Cube, Halle Berry, Ashton Kutcher, Hilary Swank - with a cast this strong, New Year's Eve should at least be watchable, right....?

Read more...

Angels Crest: BD Review

Angel's Crest is the kind of moody, self-obsessed indie melodrama that only a mother could love....

Read more...

Eclipse Series 33 - Up All night With Robert Downey, Sr.: DVD Review

The elusive Putney Swope finally arrives on DVD, and it's three times as weird as you've heard (though somehow it works).....

Read more...

History of the World in Two Hours: 3D BD Review

3D, two hours, one unfortunately uncompelling history doc....

Read more...

S.W.A.T. - The Final Season: DVD Review

This TV-on-DVD set will make you want to either strap on your bulletproof vest and vigilantly march into harm's way or put on your boogie shoes and shake your booty....

Read more...

Hell on Wheels - The Complete First Season: BD Review

This new revenge-fueled western makes for dumb, bloody fun....

Read more...

Hazel - The Complete Third Season: DVD Review

Oh, that wacky Hazel....

Read more...

Project X: BD Review

Even for a dumb-ass teen comedy, Project X is vacuous and uninspired....

Read more...

The Best of Foyle's War: DVD Review

It's a solid cross-section of the series, but is there any reason to choose this Best of set over full season-by-season DVD box sets of Foyle's War....?

Read more...

The FP: BD Review

Finally, all those hours spent playing Dance Dance Revolution are about to pay off....!

Read more...

Brad Meltzer's Decoded - Season Two: DVD Review

I didn't even know there was a conspiracy around the building of Mount Rushmore. Thanks, Brad Meltzer...!

Read more...

Phenomenon: BD Review

... in which John Travolta gets touched by an angel, but Kyra Sedgwick doesn't really know how to handle it....

Read more...

The Code: DVD Review

A three-hour documentary about math and science shouldn't be nearly this entertaining....

Read more...

The Inbetweeners - The Complete Series: DVD Review

"You've had an eventful day - bunking off school, buying alcohol illegally, defacing Carli's drive and insulting Neil's dad. Have I missed anything?" "We also hit a spastic with a Frisbee."

Read more...

Casting the Runes: DVD Review

This creepy 1979 British horror import gets a standalone standard-def presentation....

Read more...

The Crimson Petal and the White: DVD Review

Not your ordinary British period piece miniseries, that's for sure....

Read more...

Heaven's Gate: BD Review

Either the anti-western of the New Hollywood era or a beautiful 3+ hour waste of time....

Read more...

The Lina Wertmuller Collection: BD Review

This arthouse trilogy will try the consistutions of even the most hardened cinephiles....

Read more...

Hazel - The Complete Fourth Season: DVD Review

Shirley Booth's iconic sitcom on DVD has innate appeal to her strident fans, but that's pretty much it....

Read more...

Two-Lane Blacktop: BD Review

Monte Hellman's cult classic gets Criterion's first Blu-ray bump of the new year....

Read more...

Doomsday Book: BD Review

This South Korean apocalyptic import is gonzo and out-there, but also somehow quite resonant....

Read more...

Liberal Arts: BD Review

This quiet, unassuming rom-com from the How I Met Your Mother guy turns out to be surprisingly watchable....

Read more...

Tosh.0 - Deep V's: BD Review

Six hours of Daniel Tosh lampooning any and all internet videos he can get his hands on - what could possibly go wrong....?

Read more...

Taken 2: BD Review

Liam Neeson's latest thriller is dumb, silly, and totally worth watching....

Read more...

Ice Age - Continental Drift: BD Review

This new Ice Age isn't as fun as earlier installments, but your kids will eat it up....

Read more...

Last of the Summer Wine - Vintage 1997: DVD Review

This retro British sitcom import continues to show flashes of lazy, dum-dum fun....

Read more...

Celeste and Jesse Forever: BD Review

Even hardcore rom-com lovers might have trouble getting through this new Rashida Jones/Andy Samberg tale....

Read more...

The Master: BD Review

This Oscar-nominated Paul Thomas Anderson film is either the kind of movie you'll fall in love with or the worst thing you'll have seen in years....

Read more...

So Undercover: BD Review

In So Undercover, Miley Cyrus plays an detective infiltrating ties to the Georgian mafia - no, I'm not joking....

Read more...

Foyle's War: The Home Front Files - Sets 1-6: DVD Review

This monstrous 22-DVD set is a mystery lover's dream come true....

Read more...

Gossip Girl: The Complete Sixth Season: DVD Review

R.I.P., Gossip Girl...

Read more...

Hipsters: DVD Review

This Russian musical romance is wild, weird, beautifully shot, and ultimately kind of confounding...

Read more...

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow: DVD Review

This documentary on artist Anselm Kiefer doesn't probe its subject matter all that much, but his giant installations are truly wonders to behold....

Read more...

Storage 24: BD Review

A group of Londoners get trapped in a warehouse with ooey-gooey monster aliens. Been there, done that, right....?

Read more...

The Borgias - The Second Season: BD Review

Only Jeremy Irons and company can make the act of being Pope seem like a plot line in a steamy Sidney Sheldon novel....

Read more...

Promised Land: BD Review

This Gus Van Sant/Matt Damon reteaming is no classic, but it's probably a lot better than you'd expect....

Read more...

A Fine Romance - The Complete Collection: DVD Review

Judi Dench's early-80s breakthrough series gets a repackaged DVD edition....

Read more...

Jack Reacher: BD Review

Tom Cruise's latest franchise upstart isn't perfect, but this is nevertheless one of the better Blu-ray titles to hit shelves so far this year....

Read more...

The Rabbi's Cat: BD Review

This uniquely complex animated import is visually stunniing and maybe just a bit too narratively oblique for its own good...

Read more...

Official 2011 World Series Film: DVD Review

Game 6, man. Game 6.....

Read more...

ESPN Films Collection - Vol. 1: DVD Review

ESPN follows up last year's extraordinary 30 for 30 set with this compilation of five new sports documentaries....

Read more...

The Thing: BD Review

Where's John Carpenter when you need him....?

Read more...

Moneyball: BD Review

Brad Pitt and company make Moneyball one of the better sports flicks of recent years....

Read more...