The Dark Knight arrives with tremendous hype (best superhero movie ever? posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger?), and incredibly, it lives up to all of it. But calling it the best superhero movie ever seems like faint praise, since part of what makes the movie great--in addition to pitch-perfect casting, outstanding writing, and a compelling vision--is that it bypasses the normal fantasy ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie GyllenhaalDirected By: Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Ruth Jones, James Corden, Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Rob Brydon
Appreciating that the title does the film few favours, Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging nonetheless emerges as a really quite pleasant surprise. Based on the book by Louise Rennison, and directed by Bend It Like Beckham helmer Gurinder Chadha, Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging centres around the character of Georgia Nicolson, played by Georgia Groome, and her trials and ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Georgia Groome, Liam Hess, Tommy Bastow, Sean BourkeDirected By: Gurinder Chadha
As light and frothy as the Vivienne Westwood wedding gown that's an unofficial fifth star, the film version of Sex and the City is both captivatingly stylish and sweetly sentimental. Viewers who loved hanging with Carrie Bradshaw and her three pals during the series' TV run will feel as though no time has passed. Except that it has: Carrie and Big are poised to make a Big Commitment; ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Kim Catrall, Cynthia Nixon, Chris NothDirected By: Michael Patrick King
Television really doesn't come much better than this. Criminally ignored by far, far too many people, The Wire has proven itself to be that rarest of things: an intelligent, clever, character-driven show, that's lasted more than one season.This boxset brings together all the episodes from the maiden series of The Wire, spread across thirteen episodes. Yet those episodes, unlike ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dominic West, John Doman, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Deirdre LovejoyDirected By: Brad Anderson, Clark Johnson, Clément Virgo, Edward Bianchi, Gloria Muzio
The Coen brothers make their finest thriller since Fargo with a restrained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Not that there aren't moments of intense violence, but No Country for Old Men is their quietest, most existential film yet. In this modern-day Western, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam veteran who needs a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly MacDonald, Stephen RootDirected By: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Hancock turns the standard superhero movie inside-out. The titular character, played by Will Smith, can fly, has super strength and is invulnerable. But he's also a sloppy, arrogant alcoholic who causes millions of dollars in property damage whenever he bothers to fight crime. When he saves the life of a PR agent named Ray (Jason Bateman, Arrested Development), Ray decides to improve ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason BatemanDirected By: Peter Berg
A genuinely epic achievement, the 10-part World War II drama Band of Brothers is a television series that makes big-screen Hollywood war movies look small in comparison. Based on the book by historian Stephen Ambrose, the series follows the US 101st Airborne Division's "Easy" E-Company from initial training through D-Day and across Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria until the end of the ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Ron Livingston, Scott Grimes, Peter Youngblood Hills
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Martin Sheen, Rob LoweDirected By: Jason Ensler
