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The Mill and the Cross: BD Review

Go ahead - step inside this Flemish painting. Rutger Hauer will show you around....

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World on a Wire: BD Review

Thirty years before The Matrix came this epic three-hour sci-fi head trip from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the more intriguing Blu-ray titles of recent months....

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J. Edgar: BD Review

Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for one of the least compelling biopics in recent memory....

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The Last Temptation of Christ:: BD Review

The controversial - and widely acclaimed - Martin Scorsese picture gets some high-definition love from Criterion....

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Immortals: BD Review

Does the Henry Cavill/Mickey Rourke gods vs. men actioner work? Who cares? Bring on the armies of dudes beating the crap out of each other!

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Gainsbourg - A Heroic Life: BD Review

This new biopic may not do Serge justice, but it sure is damned fun to watch....

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The Return: DVD Review

This graduate from Cannes 2011 starring Michael Shannon and John Slattery is harrowing, intense, and evocative....

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Into the Abyss: BD Review

Werner Herzog's latest documentary is a harrowing investigation of crime, punishment, and the shrapnel they both leave behind....

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Flashpoint - The Fourth Season: DVD Review

The Canadian Strategic Response Unit crime drama returns to DVD for its penultimate season....

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Covert Affairs - Season Two: DVD Review

It falls into the category of 'Guilty Pleasure', but Covert Affairs' new TV-on-DVD edition is nevertheless totally fun....

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Dark Tide: BD Review

This Halle-Berry-in-a-bikini thriller is an instant candidate for worst shark flick of the year...

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The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake: BD Review

This Huang Yi import is a rollicking, often mesmerizing surprise....

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Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island: BD Review

Alas, Steve Perry does not have a cameo in this latest Dwayne Johnson kiddie flick....

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And Everything Is Going Fine: BD Review

Steven Soderbergh's fifth film to receive the Criterion treatment is a brash, sad portrait of monologist Spalding Gray....

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Dynasty - The Sixth Season (2-Pack): DVD Review

Linda Evans plays not one but two roles in this sixth Dynasty season? Madness....!

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Silent House: BD Review

This horror flick with Elizabeth Olsen - filmed in one long shot - comes dangerously close to working...

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Rosetta: BD Review

The Palme d'Or-winning drama by the Dardenne brothers gets a superb high-def Criterion release....

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Madame Bovary: DVD Review

Kiss or Kill alum Frances O'Connor nails her performance as the eponymous heroine in this umpteenth Flaubert TV update....

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Marley: BD Review

The king of reggae gets a full-fledged biography here, and it turns out to be one of the better docs of the year....

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Quill - The Life of a Guide Dog: DVD Review

The doggie dream sequence in Quill is worth the price of admission, but this standard-def edition might not merit a full adoption....

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Grosse Pointe Blank: BD Review

Don't get too excited, John Cusack fans - the high-def upgrade of this mid-90s cult hit disappoints across the board....

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Blue Like Jazz: BD Review

This moody little film about life at Reed College tries hard, but never fully connect....

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Cloudstreet: DVD Review

The acclaimed Australian miniseries based on Tim Winton's bestselling novel gets a sturdy standard-def DVD edition....

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Magic Mike: BD Review

...in which Channing Tatum and pals take it all off just for you - in high-def...!

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Holy Flying Circus: BD Review

A Monty Python biopic as gonzo and unpredictable as the comedy troupe it chronicles....

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Young James Herriot: DVD Review

The legendary veterinarian gets a solid biopic treatment by this miniseries import....

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Disc News Update 11.01

Two high-profile 2012 blockbusters - The Odd Life of Timothy Green and House at the End of the Street - get high-def specs...

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Get a Life - The Complete Series: DVD Review

The Chris Elliott comedy that ran from 1990-1992 is wild, hare-brained, and somehow as lovable as ever on this Complete Series TV-on-DVD set....

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Ruby Sparks: BD Review

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' follow-up to Little Miss Sunshine is a breezy, ditzy mess....

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Trilogy of Life: BD Review

Pier Paolo Pasolini's epic three-film cycle comes to life in high-def like never before....

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The Tall Man: BD Review

The Jessica Biel indie thriller comes this close to being a legitimately successful horror experiment....

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The Crimson Petal and the White: DVD Review

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

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New Girl - Season One: DVD Review

"I'm gonna end up alone. I'm gonna be a single old lady flashing people on the subway...."

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The Story of Film - An Odyssey: DVD Review

Mark Cousins' epic 15-part series could very well be the best documentary of the year....

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Disc News Update 12.12

Monsters, Inc. gets early 3D Blu-ray specs, and we also have info on an upcoming 3D release of Life of Pi....

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Incredibly Ever After: BD Review

It's just like a live-action Incredibles, only remade as an Chinese sitcom...

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The Qatsi Trilogy: BD Review

Godfrey Reggio's genre-defying trilogy explodes in Criterion high-definition...

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Liberal Arts: BD Review

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

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Sleepwalk With Me: BD Review

The This American Life comedian embarks on a dream odyssey that is as bumbling as it is somehow charming...

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The Life and Times of Tim - The Complete Third Season: DVD Review

The oddball HBO animated series comes to a bizarre yet often hilarious end....

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Hit and Run: BD Review

This Dax Shepard comedy action is fun for a few minutes, but that still leaves about ninety minutes of movie to slog through....

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Compliance: BD Review

This Ann Dowd drama - based on true events - is often unbearably intense....

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Disc News Update 01.30

Early word on 3D editions of Life of Pi and the first installment of The Hobbit....

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Testimony of Two Men: DVD Review

The 1977 miniseries finally makes its way onto DVD, and on first impression, it feels - long...

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A Simple Life: BD Review

This acclaimed drama about a woman reaching the end of her life and entering a nursing home is a bona fide laugh riot (not)...

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The Sessions: BD Review

John Hawkes is so good in The Sessions that one wonders why he's not up  there with Helen Hunt vying for Oscar....

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Robot and Frank: DVD Review

This odd little Frank Langhella sci-fi/drama definitely deserves a high-def release.....

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: BD Review

Criterion scores again with this Blu-ray upgrade from The Archers....

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Interview With a Hitman: BD Review

This Luke Goss thriller has its moments, but does it really add up to all that much...?

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Life of Pi: 3D BD Review

Ang Lee's epic tiger-on-a-boat saga proves why it took home four Oscars on this jaw-dropping 3D Blu-ray release...

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