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THE ICE STORM: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

By | March 2008

I’m sure I’m mostly speaking to fans of the film who want to know what Criterion has in store for them. Rest assured, it’s another worthy release…

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THE ICE STORM: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

As someone who grew up during the 1970s, my reaction the first time I saw "The Ice Storm" in 1997 when was probably similar to what someone who was raised...

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SUPERHERO MOVIE

If you've seen Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" lately, I think it's safe to say that the film... hasn't aged well. At all. Even when I was sitting in the theater...

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AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR

“Hang ‘em high. Hang ‘em fast.” That’s the lesson the Reverend Carroll Pickett learned early in life from his father, whose father was a murder...

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THE BRIDE WORE BLOOD

"The Bride Wore Blood" has some tricks up its sleeve. They aren't revealed until near the end, proving that this hour-long film (more than a short, but not...

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I FUCKING HATE YOU

One of the perils of improvised films is winding up with a production that starts in the middle of nowhere and ends up on the fringe of nowhere. The...

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THE LOST COAST

It’s the subject of many Hollywood films – "The Big Chill" being the most famous of them – old friends gathering together to reminisce and try to...

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GOING BACK TO TEXAS…

The dust has barely settled from SXSW and I'm on my way back to Texas for the AFI Dallas Film Festival. I'll be there April 1-6, and on Saturday, April 5...

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HAVING ANOTHER GO AT THIS ACTING THING, ELISHA?

The original unnecessarily complicated romance comedy is now being remade into a watered down and much more sugary romantic comedy, and goody, they seem to...

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THANK GOD FOR SMALL MIRACLES…

Somehow, and I'm not sure how, I allowed E! to stay on my television for longer than a channel surfing second. I let "The Soup," "Chelsea Lately" and some...

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SIX MAN, TEXAS

It’s odd when you think about it, that the best sports movies of all time are rarely about sports, or at least the sport in question isn’t the...

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