More Articles By Ed Hulse
- The Word on DVD
SEPT. 10 | FAITH & FAMILY: With the growing trend in book-based DVDs, it’s fitting that one book’s DVD version is selling particularly well: the Bible . More - Bombay Calling
MILL CREEK Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: now > Revealing, first-rate documentary about India-based telemarketers working for American and U.K. companies. India’s youth culture is shown to be heavily influenced by the ready availability of telemarketing jobs from Western-based firms interested in saving money by outsourcing. More - Dead Letter Office
BFS ENTERTAINMENT Street: Oct. 9 Prebook: Sept. 11 > Generally engaging romance will have to overcome unintentionally misleading package art. Lord of the Rings' Miranda Otto plays an unhappy young woman who takes a job at the postal service's Dead Letter Office, filled with stacks of returned, unread letters. More - Malabimba, the Malicious Whore
SEVERIN Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: now > Ultra-sexy Eurotrash classic has a relatively small but eager audience awaiting its release. This undisputed Eurosleaze classic, which rode the wave of erotic horror films that swept across the continent in the wake of The Exorcist, has everything fans of the subgenre could ever want: Gothic atmosphere, Satanic possession, lesbian nuns, even death by ... More - Cinema16: European Short Films
CINEMA16 Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: now > Fascinating assortment of early shorts directed by notable feature filmmakers. This collection includes 16 short films of foreign origin, many of them early works by now famous filmmakers. Ridley Scott, Lars von Trier, Juan Solanas, Jan Svankmajer and Christopher Nolan are among those represented. More - Mix-Up
LOWAVE/MICROCINEMA Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: now > Well thought-out, brilliantly executed documentary is alternately wacky and poignant. This 1986 documentary, the first film by innovative French director Françoise Romand, recounts the true-life tale of female babies accidentally switched at birth in 1936 and raised by the wrong families. More - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
HBO/WARNER Street: Sept. 11 Prebook: now > Stirring, beautifully made drama narrowly misses greatness but is still top-drawer entertainment. HBO’s lavishly mounted adaptation of Dee Brown’s 1971 bestseller about the 19th century mistreatment of Native Americans boasts stellar acting but falls just short of being the masterpiece it might have been. More - Michael Moore Hates America
ALLUMINATION Street: Oct. 16 Prebook: Sept. 11 > Caustic indictment of filmmaker Michael Moore lacks the wit of its subject’s own movies. The portly polemicist is hoisted on his own petard by filmmaker Michael Wilson, who makes no secret of his desire to expose Moore as a wealthy hypocrite rather than the bedraggled outsider he pretends to be. More - Welcome to Paradise
FIRST LOOK Street: Oct. 9 Prebook: Sept. 4 > Innocuous, mildly inspirational fare is made to order for family/Christian audiences. Former sitcom star Crystal Bernard plays a controversial preacher (and single mom) transferred from her large urban-based ministry to the small town of Paradise, Texas, which desperately needs a renewed commitment to tolerance and pride in community. More - That Beautiful Somewhere
MONARCH Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: Sept. 3 > Intriguing mystery with flawed protagonists and mystic overtones has cult potential. Though genuinely offbeat and unpredictable, this Canadian thriller lacks conviction and thus falls somewhat short of the high mark it has set for itself. Troubled detective Conk Adams (Roy Dupuis) bonds with forensic archeologist Catherine Nyland (Jane McGregor) a... More - Classic Game Room
INECOM Street: Aug. 28 Prebook: now > Funny stuff for frat boys who fondly remember the videogames of yesteryear. Interspersing excerpts from an early Internet program devoted to reviews of such videogames as Sega GT , Perfect Dark and Missile Command with newer content created for this release, Classic Game Room features bantering co-hosts Mark Bussler and David Crosson providing beer-fueled commentary in what ... More - The Hole Story
CINEMA LIBRE Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: Aug. 28 > Smart, frequently hilarious and unpredictable mockumentary deserves an appreciative audience. A clever, innovative mockumentary that—like the best of its kind—could easily be mistaken for the real thing... More - Guarding Eddy
MONARCH Street: Aug. 28 Prebook: now > Pleasant but predictable inspirational drama with sports background. A likable but routine sports drama of the inspirational type, naturally based on a true-life story, Guarding Eddy follows autistic 18-year-old Eddy Patterson (Brian Presley), who runs away from home to fulfill his ambition of playing pro basketball with the Los Angeles Clippers. More - Dirty Sanchez
WEINSTEIN/GENIUS Street: Sept. 11 Prebook: now > Jackass rip-off ups the ante with regard to tasteless (and surprisingly unentertaining) material. Dirty Sanchez finds four British numbskulls traveling around the world to perform various pranks and commit the seven deadly sins in as tasteless a manner as humanly possible. More - The Last Cigarette
NEW YORKER Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: Aug. 29 > Biting documentary is timelier now than when it was made in 1999. This darkly and savagely funny documentary—assembled from clips of Hollywood movies, vintage cigarette commercials, anti-smoking “scare” films targeted at teens and even Congressional sparring matches with representatives of Big Tobacco—examines how a dang... More - Do or Die
BFS Street: Sept. 11 Prebook: Aug. 14 > Competent thriller is exploitable by virtue of its speed and edginess. Upon learning that her son has leukemia and needs a transfusion from a perfectly compatible donor, British doctor Samantha Sheppard (Kate Ashfield) is forced not only to tell her husband (Hugo Speer) that he isn’t the boy’s real dad, but also to locate the biological fa... More - The Other Side
ALLUMINATION Street: Oct. 2 Prebook: Aug. 28 > Low-budget, action-filled horror might pass muster with genre fans. College student Sam North (Nathan Mobley), murdered on the night he’s supposed to reunite with girlfriend Hanna (Jaimie Alexander), escapes from Hades back into the world of the living. More - Wind Chill
SONY Street: Sept. 4 Prebook: now > Rising star Emily Blunt scores in this claustrophobic chiller. Trying to get back home for Christmas, a bitchy college student (Emily Blunt) accepts a ride from one of her classmates (Ashton Holmes). Driving through the woods in whiteout conditions, they take an ill-advised detour and get stuck in a snow bank, where they witness frightening apparitions wh... More - The Postcard Bandit
BFS ENTERTAINMENT Street: Aug. 14 Prebook: now > Vigorous Aussie crime flick with charismatic lead character will please fans of caper movies. A lively film set and made in Australia, The Postcard Bandit dramatizes the career of daring, real-life bandit Brenden James Abbott (Tom Long), who reportedly sent postcards from his crime scenes to the police. More - Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
VIZ MEDIA Street: Sept. 4 Prebook: July 31 > High-quality, feature-length film version of popular anime TV series. The wildly successful TV series easily translates to feature-film length with a diverting narrative that incorporates more characterization than is found in most anime programs. The titular hero, young Uzumaki Naruto, is possessed by the spirit of a demon and thus discriminated... More
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