http://metropulse.com/news/movies/dvd-reviews/?partner=RSSMetroPulse Stories: DVD Reviewsen-usmovies/dvd-reviewshttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/dec/23/best-dvds-2008/?partner=RSS ]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:30:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14120-733399ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNThe Best DVDs of 2008MetroPulsebest-dvds-2008urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14120-733399Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/dec/10/fear-and-secrets/?partner=RSSEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side). ]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:52:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14094-733386ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNFear and SecretsMetroPulsefear-and-secretsurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14094-733386Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/nov/26/brass-tacks/?partner=RSSThe Wire, and at the same time the FX cable network treated audiences to The Shield, another new show that threw light on the labyrinthine complexities and dark back-channels of modern police work. ]]>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:16:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14038-733372ae-reviews/dvd-tvPaul LewisKnoxville, TNBrass TacksMetroPulsebrass-tacksurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14038-733372Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/nov/19/whatever-happened-randolph-scott/?partner=RSS ]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14013-733365ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNWhatever Happened to Randolph Scott?MetroPulsewhatever-happened-randolph-scotturn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-14013-733365Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/nov/05/men-alone/?partner=RSSMongol, new to DVD. ]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13955-733351ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNMen AloneMetroPulsemen-aloneurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13955-733351Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/29/urban-renewal/?partner=RSSThe Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies is an undeniable American classic, that Battle Royale is a parable for our times, and that Showgirls is no doubt Paul Verhoeven’s one true masterpiece. These days, you really have to dig deep to find a disdained movie to champion because they’re all being endorsed already by other movie-nerds. ]]>coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn)Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13891-733344ae-reviews/dvd-tvCoury TurczynKnoxville, TNUrban RenewalMetroPulseurban-renewalurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13891-733344Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/08/personality-cult/?partner=RSSLadies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains was almost more of a rumor than an actual movie. Filmed in 1981 and never properly released, it spent the next decade popping up at midnight screenings or on late-night cable. Never officially available on video, it circulated on grotty VHS bootlegs of bootlegs of bootlegs and somehow missed the first wave of DVD reissues, then the second, third, and fourth. But its cult, tiny and fervent, has stayed alive and now finds itself rewarded with a legit digital issue courtesy—who else?—Rhino Video. ]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13807-733323ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNPersonality of CultMetroPulsepersonality-culturn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13807-733323Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/sep/24/culture-clash/?partner=RSSThe Rape of Europa illustrates, the Nazis’ obsession with art led to a shock to European culture that reverberates to this day. ]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13773-733309ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNCulture ClashMetroPulseculture-clashurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13773-733309Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/sep/17/killer-tv/?partner=RSSThe Shield and The Sopranos have shown, characters who are sometimes warm and funny and at other moments vile and repugnant can produce some of the best television, though they may immediately turn away a certain segment of the population before it views a frame of film. Pushing those bounds of morality and good taste, Showtime drama Dexter recently released its second season on DVD while teasing the third season, premiering Sept. 28. Even more than a captivating corrupt cop and a charismatic, vicious gangster, can an audience enter the headspace in which they identify with—even root for—an emotionally vacant serial killer? ]]>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13738-733302ae-reviews/dvd-tvPaul LewisKnoxville, TNKiller TVMetroPulsekiller-tvurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13738-733302Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/sep/10/arthouse-degradation/?partner=RSSSalò to, well, anyone. Just talking about the sort of things depicted in the film—rape, torture, degradation of all varieties—is likely to get you shunned around most watercoolers and the film remains banned in several countries. Even in an age where you can search up footage of almost anything online, it still carries a transgressive charge. If Salò were merely concerned with transgression, or titillation, it would be of little interest; it certainly wouldn’t be coming out in a typically deluxe, new two-DVD Criterion Collection edition. But there’s more going on here than exploitation. ]]>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13714-733295ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNArthouse DegradationMetroPulsearthouse-degradationurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13714-733295Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/sep/03/spaced-out/?partner=RSSSeinfeld and Friends to any number of shows approximating them, but it also applies to a show that’s easily as notable as the former and absolutely demolishes the latter, despite only lasting for 14 episodes. But the average viewer may never have heard of Brit-com Spaced because, well, it’s British. ]]>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13688-733288ae-reviews/dvd-tvPaul LewisKnoxville, TNSpaced OutMetroPulsespaced-outurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13688-733288Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/aug/27/scraping-bottom/?partner=RSSChapter 27. According to IMDb, star Jared Leto is, in fact, working as an actor again, but after witnessing his indulgent performance as psychotic assassin Mark David Chapman, it’s easy to imagine casting directors all over Hollywood deleting his agent’s number from their Blackberrys. ]]>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13676-733281ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNScraping the BottomMetroPulsescraping-bottomurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13676-733281Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/aug/13/something-borrowed/?partner=RSSSpoiler Alert: Escape From New York reinvented the B-movie action epic, Mad Max and The Road Warrior reinvented the post-apocalyptic movie, and 28 Days Later reinvented the zombie flick. Rather than reinvent any of these films or genres, Doomsday settles for merely repurposing chunks of all of them, along with maybe a dozen others. The filmmakers being imitated may feel flattered, but the viewer is more likely to feel simply taken. ]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13619-733267ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNSomething BorrowedMetroPulsesomething-borrowedurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13619-733267Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jul/30/straight-hell/?partner=RSSChop Shop plays out like a cinematic gloss on a late-period Clash song (something buried deep on side five of Sandinista!, perhaps), so it’s serendipitous that Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is also hitting DVD. ]]>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13561-733253ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNStraight to HellMetroPulsestraight-hellurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13561-733253Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jul/16/auteur-weary/?partner=RSSWed, 16 Jul 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13512-733239ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNAuteur WearyMetroPulseauteur-wearyurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13512-733239Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jul/02/trouble-and-desire/?partner=RSSWed, 02 Jul 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13468-733225ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNTrouble and DesireMetroPulsetrouble-and-desireurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13468-733225Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jun/19/magic/?partner=RSSThe Thief of Baghdad and “The Red Balloon,” two films each more than 50 years old, each supplying a lesson in the wonder simpler times could produce on screen. ]]>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:42:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13429-733212ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNMagicMetroPulsemagicurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13429-733212Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jun/11/nuanced-necromancy/?partner=RSSmconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13388-733204ae-reviews/dvd-tvMike GibsonKnoxville, TNNuanced NecromancyMetroPulsenuanced-necromancyurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13388-733204Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jun/04/biting-commentary/?partner=RSSWed, 04 Jun 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13380-733197ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNBiting CommentaryMetroPulsebiting-commentaryurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13380-733197Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/may/21/i-know-it-when-i-see-it/?partner=RSSThe Lovers. ]]>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13312-733183ae-reviews/dvd-tvLee GardnerKnoxville, TNI Know It When I See ItMetroPulsei-know-it-when-i-see-iturn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13312-733183Change0Usable