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See it: • The Lives of Others [buy it]. From my review: The last line, the last look, the last moment: every movie lover knows that the ending can make or break a film. The Lives of Others — which just won a very well deserved Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — has one … more…

See it: • Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters [buy it]. From my review: I am not among the deeply initiated. But I feel the goodness and the strangeness and the unknowableness of it. I get it, this weird stream-of-consciousness riffing on pop culture and the absurdities of modern life and the … more…

Spotted at the IMDB: Sales of Hi-Def DVDs Outpace VHS Tapes My first thought: VHS tapes still exist as new consumer items on sale now, and not just as doorstops in my apartment? (Technorati tags: VHS)

Stardust opens tomorrow, and some who’ve seen the film in advance have been calling it “the next Princess Bride.” Alas, this isn’t quite the case … and I say that as the gal who literally wrote the book on that film. But it’s entertaining enough that it may whet your appetite for other (and somewhat … more…

I’m making do with a standard upconverting DVD player for the moment (instead of going HD or Blu-ray) because I’m seriously in the grips of techno-fatigue lately.

Holy moly, it’s surely the depths of August when absolutely every theatrical release on DVD is a stinker. Skip it: • Disturbia [buy it]. From my review: The world is in a heightened state of paranoia. We are solemnly informed of this by a character in Disturbia as if it’s a newsflash, but what it … more…

See it: • 300 [buy it]. From my review: This is one of those ür-stories that actually feels like a slice of ancient wonder and grandeur… This is more Lord of the Rings than Gladiator, and still not much like either of those films, either: this exists in its own kind of mythic space much … more…

If you know the brilliant Hugh Laurie only from House, which was the introduction the majority of American audiences had to the British actor, then you probably don’t know that before taking on the role of the cranky doctor, Laurie was celebrated primarily as a comic actor. Oh, it’s true that there are aspect of … more…

See it: • Zodiac [buy it]. From my review: Zodiac… build[s]… to a confrontation with evil that isn’t quite like anything we’ve seen on film before. For this is not a movie about a serial killer as we’ve come to think of them — this is not a bloody gorefest that pretends to be some … more…