In an era where many moviemakers put every effort into putting more and more on screen, and even extending it beyond the screen with 3-D, it’s nice to know than others are still experimenting with doing less. Take director Rodrigo ...

Even if this column were weekly—even if this column were daily—I’d be hard-pressed to keep up with the dozens of DVD and Blu-ray releases new and old rolled out every Tuesday throughout the year. And so, before we launch fully ...

Lee Gardner selects his favorite DVD and Blu-ray releases of 2010.

The flicker of the newsreel defined World War II and Korea for viewers on the homefront, while Vietnam was the “television war,” with grainy color 16mm unspooling on the nightly news. The first Gulf War was glowing green night-vision footage ...

It’s the hard truths behind the feuds and allegiances and double-crosses and facing of fate that make Vengeance stand out from the shallow thrills of the outlandish action genre.

If you’ve heard of Danish writer/director Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist (Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray) at all, it’s most likely because of the pre-release buzz about its more disturbing content, including a bolt driven through a character’s leg and genital ...

There’s something about a B movie. It may not reach the heights of beauty, of artistic expression, of emotional or intellectual profundity that a great film might, but a good B movie does something else almost better than anything else ...

While the ooky-spooky sound and arcane trappings of black metal have become yet another hipster enthusiasm in recent years, it bears remembering that the history of the genre is truly blood-soaked and flame-licked.

Terrence Malick’s 'The Thin Red Line' trickled into most U.S. movie theaters in early 1999, a few months after Steven Spielberg’s 'Saving Private Ryan.' Ryan’s overwhelming success probably explains why the theater where I first saw Malick’s film was relatively ...

In March, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will bestow an Academy Award on never-before-nominated Roger Corman. It’s an “honorary” Oscar, true—Corman mostly works in TV these days, so his latest production, Sharktopus, isn’t likely to screen for ...

America may have given the world The Sopranos and The Wire, but the British have been doing ambitious, long-arc television narratives for decades. And nobody on this side of the Atlantic in the post-Sopranos/Wire world has done anything like Red ...

The Art of the Steal (MPI DVD) painstakingly reveals the shameless maneuvering of various Philadelphia politicians, administrators, philanthropists, and wealthy men to turn Albert C. Barnes' collection of modern art into yet another center-city tourist attraction.

French director Jacques Audiard’s 2009 film A Prophet tells the story of a young Arab's education in a French prison and may be the best crime film since Goodfellas.

If you have digital cable, you’ve probably already discovered the joys of the “on-demand” option, calling up last week’s episode of Mad Men or a just-out-of-theaters Hollywood blockbuster whenever the fancy strikes. But some of the smaller (and more interesting) ...

While it isn’t tough to find a Blu-ray copy of Avatar, more marginal titles are suffering as studios let them fall out of print or hold off on issuing them in the first place. After all, thousands of film nerds ...