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Halloween (1978) [DVD] John Carpenter’s Halloween is a stripped down, primal horror movie. Made on a shoestring budget in the late 1970s before “slasher movie” was a worn-out derogatory phrase, ... Halloween (2007) In the process, Zombie tears down the small-town banality that made the original Halloween so memorable. Fascinated with everything grimy and tactless (he has a special affinity for long ... Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers [DVD] The problem with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is that it's a bridge movie, linking Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), which jump-started the series back into ... Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later "Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later" is a major disappointment. Touting itself as a "real" sequel to John Carpenter's masterful independent thriller that launched an entire genre of knife-wielding ... Hamlet (1948) [DVD] Many film versions of Shakespeare's plays had been brought to the screen before Laurence Olivier's adapted "Hamlet" in 1948. However, with the possible exception of Olivier's own patriotic screen ... Hamlet (1996) By filming the play in its entirety, Branaugh gives the film the kind of scope and arc that had been lacking in previous interpretations. The four-hour version makes earlier films look almost skimpy ... Hamlet 2 Absurdity is everything in Hamlet 2, and the film rides comfortably on the shoulders of the British TV star Steve Coogan, who we saw earlier this summer as the in-over-his-head newbie ... Hancock Superhero John Hancock (Smith) favors a much more relaxed wardrobe, consisting of baggy shorts, tee-shirts, a ski cap, a five-day beard, and huge sunglasses that are more for hiding his hung-over, ... Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary This contestant, a man in his mid-thirties named Benny, won that "human drama" in 1992, and in S.R. Bindler's fascinating documentary, "Hands on a Hardbody," he's back to compete again. The title of ... Hands Over the City (Le Mani sulla città) [DVD] As was the case in Salvatore Giuliano, Rosi’s primary concern is exposing the true mechanisms of power; thus, much of the film takes place amid squabbling politicians and real estate power ... Hannibal It has now been a decade since The Silence of the Lambs took the movie-going public by storm over a Valentine's Day weekend in 1991. The gripping story of an apprentice FBI agent forming an ... Hannibal Rising Nevertheless, author Thomas Harris, who first created Lecter in his 1982 novel Red Dragon (brought to the screen twice, once by Michael Mann and once by Brett Ratner) is intent on bringing ... Hardball Harball is a sluggish, "uplifting" Hollywoodized account of a troubled man who finds unlikely redemption by coaching an inner-city baseball team. Adapted by John Gatins (Summer Catch) ... Harlan County, U.S.A. [DVD] Kopple, who has since worked in both fictional feature filmmaking and television directing, is an accomplished documentarian, but her greatest gift may be her sense of subject matter. She was ... Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay Alas, just as their search for the perfect food landed them on a comic nightmare journey through the backwoods of New Jersey in White Castle, their planned European odyssey is quickly ... Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Harold & Kumar puts front and center one of the structuring absences of most teen comedies—namely, race—in a calculated move that both gives the movie a freshness so many of its ilk lack ... Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets It’s his second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and wunderkind wizard-in-training Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) has his hands full. Before he even arrives, he is begged ... Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The inscrutable mystery of girls and the spell they cast over adolescent boys with the slightest of movements (“You know I like how they walk,” Ron says at one point) is the most engaging ... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Unfortunately, even with Kloves resuming his writing duties, the same is largely true of The Half-Blood Prince, which despite having a longer running time and a shorter source novel than its ... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the series, is based on the longest of Rowling's novels, which runs nearly 900 pages in length. The film clocks in at just under ... Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban The big change has been replacing Columbus, who bowed out after all the stress of shooting the first two films back to back, with Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, best known for the indie art-house ... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Chris Columbus' big-screen version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first novel in J.K Rowling's wildly popular series about a burgeoning boy wizard, is a beautifully mounted ... Hart's War Hart's War is an odd mish-mash, pursuing different ends at different times until, by the end of the film, we're not sure what it was about or how we should feel about what it's saying. ... Häxan (aka Witchcraft Through the Ages) [DVD] Pioneering Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's name doesn't appear in a lot of general film histories, even though it should. He made 14 films from the teens through the early '40s, including ... He Got Game Using the story of a father and son's reconciliation, Lee explores the essence of modern sports, particularly the enormous monetary and materialistic pressures put on burgeoning young athletes. The ... Head-On (Gegen die Wand) The majority of the story takes place in Hamburg, where two failed suicides, both of Turkish descent, meet in a clinic. The man is Cahit Tomruk (Birol Ünel), a mangy, bitter, alcoholic widower in ... Heartbreakers In Heartbreakers, Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play amother-daughter team of grifters who move from city to city, conning rich men out of theirmoney. It works like this: Max, ... Hearts and Minds [DVD] In the nearly three decades since U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government fell to the communist North Vietnamese, there have been a plethora of ... Hearts in Atlantis Hearts in Atlantis feels strangely incomplete. The film was based on "Low Men in Yellow Coats," the first story in Stephen King's 1999 novel Hearts in Atlantis, and adapted by William ... Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse [DVD] Thanks to constant media reports, the production of Apocalypse Now was already legendary long before anyone saw a foot of film, and it has only grown in stature in the ensuing years. ... Heat The film has several other outstanding qualities including strong support from Val Kilmer, Oscar-worthy cinematography, and assured direction by writer-director Michael Mann, who scored a big hit in ... Heathers [DVD] In the 12 years since its initial (and brief) theatrical release at the end of the John Hughes cycle of teen comedies and dramas in the late 1980s, Heathers has not aged a bit, and its sharp ... Heaven Can Wait [DVD] Heaven Can Wait ranks among Lubitsch’s best works and is a prime example of why his particular style of comedy was so effective and, even more importantly, has aged so well. Lubitsch’s ... Heaven's Gate There are a number of factors that led to the demise of "Heaven's Gate," but the chief problem was writer/director Michael Cimino. When "Heaven's Gate" came out, it had only been two years since ... Heavy Traffic [DVD] "All of [Ralph Bakshi's] films have been either applauded or criticized with a passion. This is the way he wanted them to be seen. Passive is not in his vocabulary." --Official Ralph Bakshi web site ... Heist Writer/director David Mamet doesn't waste any time getting down to it in his new twisty crime-thriller Heist. Within the first two minutes we are right in the middle of an elaborate robbery ... Hellbound: Hellraiser II [DVD] Although made on a low budget at a time in which the British horror film industry, after having achieved international heights with the Hammer film series in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s, was ... Hellboy > He’s certainly not an above-the-title movie star, but there’s no one else working in ... Hellboy II: The Golden Army [DVD] Hellboy II assumes you’re up-to-date with the mythology of the titular protagonist and the gaggle of fantastical oddballs with whom he works at the U.S. government’s super-secret ... Hellraiser [DVD] Although made on a low budget at a time in which the British horror film industry, after having achieved international heights with the Hammer film series in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s, was ... Henry Fool This is essentially a summation of the titular character of "Henry Fool," the arrogantly intellectual antihero at the center of Hal Hartley's new film. It's sometimes hard to tell whether Henry is ... Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Unfortunately, like so many small budget movies, the lack of money shows through at times. The film is a bit grainy, and some of the shots are too dark, and the mostly unknown actors (save Michael ... Hero (Ying ziong) The story takes place more than 2,000 years ago at the dawn of the Qin Dynasty when China was divided into six warring nations. The King of Qin (Daoming Chen) is attempting to defeat the other five ... Hidalgo > Hidalgo has much in common with Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai, ... Hide and Seek When looking back at the great twist endings of modern horror thrillers -- the revelations in Psycho (1960) or The Sixth Sense (1999) -- one is immediately struck by the fact that they ... High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) [DVD] While High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) fits in neatly with those other films, it also stands out in that it is first and foremost an expertly crafted mystery thriller whose story of a ... High Art Australian actress Radha Mitchell plays Syd, a 24-year-old assistant magazine editor at a high-profile photography magazine called "Frame." On the surface, she appears to have a good job and a ... High Fidelity "High Fidelity" is a film that never really seems to be going anywhere in particular because it's not specifically about a plot. Granted, there are carefully defined characters and the action moves ... High Tension (Haute tension) In the current U.S. climate of increasingly yawn-inducing PG-13-rated J-horror knockoffs, Alexandre Aja’s High Tension (Haute tension) is proof that horror movies can still be ... Hilary and Jackie Hilary du Pré (Rachel Griffiths) was a gifted flutist who won numerous awards as a young girl in England, while her sister, Jackie (Emily Watson), played the cello and stayed mostly in her ... Hobson's Choice [DVD] Such is how we are introduced by one Henry Hobson, a rotund widower who owns the boot shop, but spends most of his time at the local tavern guzzling booze and trading stories with his longtime ... Holes Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually ... Hollow Man Ever since coming to the United States in the mid-1980s, Dutch director Paul Verhoevenhas worked unabashedly in the mainstream, working in broad, popular genres like sciencefiction ("RoboCop," "Total ... Hollywood Homicide The central joke of Ron Shelton’s buddy-cop flick Hollywood Homicide is that LAPD detectives are always moonlighting, sometimes when on duty. It’s as if the cops don’t really want to be ... Holy Smoke Jane Campion's trippy, pseudo-profound "Holy Smoke" may be one of the best (un)intentional comedies since John Boorman's "Exorcist II: The Heretic" (1977). The audience with whom I saw the film, ... Home Alone [DVD] Home Alone is, of course, the film that made Macaulay Culkin into an international child star, made instantly famous by the simple act of slapping his hands to either side of his face and ... Home Page The World Wide Web is a strange, dizzying, sometimes dangerous but always fascinatingenvironment. Unmappable and unknowable, it is like outer-space reinscribed as inner-space inmillions of computers ... Homicide [DVD] The main character is Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna), a veteran police detective who is known for his skills at negotiation. He is very much the typical Mamet professional, defined primarily by his ... Hoop Dreams [DVD] Interestingly, the film was originally intended to be little more than a 30-minute investigation of Chicago playground basketball culture, but once filmmakers Steve James, Peter Gilbert, and ... Hoosiers [DVD] Hoosiers is indeed a powerful film if you give yourself over to it, largely because it is so earnestly pure. There is something deeply admirable about its respect for passion and forgiveness, ... Hopscotch [DVD] Hopscotch, as its playful name implies, is a light, breezy riff on spy movie conventions. Based on Brian Garfield's 1975 novel, it gestated for several years and went through a number of ... Hostage In this respect, Hostage is an interesting action movie because it muddies the protagonist’s motivation in such a way that it’s sometimes hard to root for him. Bruce Willis stars as Jeff ... Hostel Part II [DVD] In Hostel Part II, a completely unnecessary, but still intriguing sequel, Roth returns to the same Slovakian hostel, which serves as an updated candy house for a brutal business in human ... Hostel [DVD] About a year before I saw Hostel in theaters, I was lamenting in my review of White Noise (2005) what I called “the PG-13ization” of the horror genre. Simply put, far too many ... Hot Fuzz The target/object of adoration this time around is the big-budget buddy action movie. The titles most frequently and explicitly referenced are Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break (1991) and ... Hot Tub Time Machine [Blu-Ray] Well, probably quite a few people, I suppose, but anyone (like yours truly) who spent any number of his or her formative years in the Reagan era and still harbors some sense of arrested development ... Hotel Rwanda It is hard to get away from such questions while watching Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, which clearly owes a debt to Steve Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) in its approach to ... House of Games [DVD] The film's style is deliberately mannered in a way that is initially alienating, but ultimately absorbing. Mamet's trademark dialogue has never been stronger or more direct. The clipped phrases and ... House of Sand and Fog One of the simple pleasures of most mainstream movies is the clear division between good and evil, right and wrong. It is rare that you don’t know who to cheer for in a conflict, and even when the ... How High [DVD] The problem with pot comedies is that, in general, one has to be high to get any enjoyment out of them. Viewing them sober--or even anything less than completely inebriated, for that matter--tends ... How to Get Ahead in Advertising [DVD] In Bruce Robinson's acerbic but overstated satire How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Richard E. Grant stars as Denis Bagley, a slick, ruthless, chain-smoking, and utterly confident advertising ... How to Train Your Dragon Perhaps recognizing that you can play witty and sardonic only so long before your irony starts looking genuinely bitter, DreamWorks has shifted gears with their latest, the 3-D action fable How ... Howards End [Blu-Ray] Based on the celebrated 1910 novel by E.M. Forster (whose novels had already provided the source material for Merchant Ivory’s recent films, 1985’s A Room With a View and 1987’s ... Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) The story takes place in an unnamed fantasy world that looks vaguely like Europe in the late 1800s (the Tudor architecture is borrowed from Germany, but the clothing and hair styles are decidedly ... Howling III: The Marsupials [DVD] Philippe Mora's Howling III: The Marsupials is a silly, semi-spoof of werewolf movies that has nothing to do with the first two entries in The Howling series aside from the title (not ... Hulk Ang Lee’s ambitious big-screen version of Hulk is much like the titular green behemoth himself: Grand in scale and purpose, it is a weighty, muscular adaptation of the popular comic book ... Hunger [DVD] The film’s subject is the 1981 Irish hunger strike, in which 10 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) starved themselves to death in prison in protest of their treatment as common criminals, ... Husbands [DVD] Shot in what, by the early 1970s was Cassavetes’ immediately recognizable quasi-documentary style, the story follows three best friends--Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie (Peter Falk), and Gus (John ... Hustle & Flow At heart, Hustle & Flow is an underdog story about how DJay tries to escape his place in life through music. But, unlike so many similar tales, Hustle & Flow doesn't revel in ...  ( 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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