More Articles By Cyril Pearl
- The Nanny Diaries
WEINSTEIN/GENIUS Street: Dec. 4 Prebook: now > An unexceptional adaptation of the 2002 bestseller. Unlike The Devil Wears Prada, another big-screen adaptation of a chick lit bestseller, The Nanny Diaries is a rather uninspired production featuring two talented leading ladies. Laura Linney stars as a wealthy and controlling Park Avenue socialite, and Scarlett Johansson plays a recent college... More - 7 Dias
XENON Street: Nov. 20 Prebook: now > Good-hearted Spanish-language comedy about friendship, faith and U2. In order to repay a debt to a mobster, concert promoter Claudio Caballero (Eduardo Arroyuelo) has a week to deliver the band U2 for a concert in his native Mexico, in this likable comedy from first-time director Fernando Kalife. More - Lady Chatterley
KINO Street: Dec. 4 Prebook: now > A lengthy and explicit French adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s sexually charged novel. This latest film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s once-banned novel stars up-and-coming Marina Hands as the well-bred titular Lady, who is married to a paralyzed older man (Hippolyte Girardot) and embarks on a life-altering affair with her large estate’s game... More - High School Musical 2
DISNEY Street: Dec. 11 Prebook: now > Sequel to Disney’s best-selling franchise is primed to dance up a storm this holiday season. Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and the rest of the East High School Wildcats are back, this time letting loose their singing and dancing chops at a country club and its annual talent show during summer recess. More - Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
WARNER Street: Nov. 20 Prebook: now > Led Zeppelin’s famed concert film returns in a re-engineered, supplements-laden special edition. The seminal Led Zeppelin concert film returns in a remastered version with a healthy complement of extras, which include archival interviews, TV appearances and a 1976 Cameron Crowe radio show about the band. More - Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who
UNIVERSAL Street: Nov. 6 Prebook: now > A career-spanning look at the combustible British rock band. Amazing Journey takes a look as comprehensive as we’re ever likely to see of the legendarily combustible British rock outfit The Who. More - Monsieur Hire
KINO Street: Nov. 20 Prebook: now > Suspenser about sexual obsession from one of France’s most reliable filmmakers. A well-known name in the U.S. arthouse market, Patrice Leconte has been making films for nearly 40 years, with many of his most accessible efforts from the past two decades—The Hairdresser’s Husband, The Girl on the Bridge, The Man on the Train and, most rece... More - Queen Rock Montreal & Live Aid
EAGLE VISION Street: Oct. 30 Prebook: now > Arty British rockers deliver two live shows recorded during the height of their powers. It must be noted that both of these shows have been available before—the Montreal gig on Pioneer’s Queen: We Will Rock You and the Live Aid set in Rhino’s Live Aid box set—but the Canadian show has been digitally re-mastered from the original film and the sound... More - It’s A Wonderful Life: Two-Disc Collector’s Set
Street: Nov. 13 Prebook: now The latest re-issue of Frank Capra’s family favorite serves up the goods in its original B&W and in a new colorized version. Frank Capra’s perennial family/holiday favorite is back yet again, this time in a two-disc package that includes the original B&W version (and looking quite shimmery in what is described in the press materials as “fu... More - Rescue Dawn
MGM/FOX Street: Nov. 20 Prebook: Oct. 24 > Filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to the jungle for a POW escape adventure. Based upon a story he covered in the 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Rescue Dawn is filmmaker Werner Herzog’s first fictionalized narrative since 2001’s Invincible. More - Days of Heaven
CRITERION/IMAGE Street: Oct. 23 Prebook: now > Director Terrence Malick’s sumptuous turn-of-the-century American idyll receives a gorgeous high-definition restoration by Criterion. The story in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven concerns a love triangle between a Chicago steel worker (Richard Gere) on the lam for murder, his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) in the Texas panhandle. More - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Complete Series
WARNER Street: Oct. 16 Prebook: now > Aaron Sorkin’s latest TV series about the making of a TV series features his trademark eclectic characters and snappy dialog. In Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , producer Aaron Sorkin turns to the ins and outs of creating a popular TV comedy sketch show à la Saturday Night Live ... More - Shoot the Moon
WARNER Street: Nov. 6 Prebook: now > Somber study on the fallout accompanying a marital breakup. A critic’s favorite from the always reliable Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Evita, Fame) and screenwriter Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Melvin and Howard), Shoot the Moon tells the story of the painful breakup of a 15-year marriage and its subsequent affects on the ent... More - The Intruder: Special Edition
DISNEY Available now Roger Corman’s 1962 quickie about racism and desegregation in the South still packs a punch. Legendary underground filmmaker Roger Corman took a break from the titillation, sea monsters and extraterrestrials that fueled the ’60s drive-in circuit to make this still-strong message picture... More - Dawn of the Dead
ANCHOR BAY/STARZ Street: Oct. 2 Prebook: now > Low-budget luster of this zombie masterpiece shines on Blu-ray. The most influential and imitated of all zombie movies (yes, even more so than Night of the Living Dead), George Romero's Dawn of the Dead gets a top-notch Blu-ray rendering by Anchor Bay, which is releasing its first wave of high-definition titles. More - Knocked Up
UNIVERSAL Street: Sept. 25 Prebook: now > Last summer’s comedy smash gets an HD DVD polish with user-friendly U-Control features. The hit comedy of the summer goes to HD DVD, and though the nature of the film doesn’t demand all that much more in terms of enhanced sound and video to make it more enjoyable, the supplemental package does greatly benefit from the high-def experience. More - Caligula: Three-Disc Imperial Edition
PENTHOUSE/IMAGE Street: Oct. 2 Prebook: now > Bob Guccione’s infamous sex-and-violence-filled Imperial Rome epic gets the royal treatment. With its budget of nearly $20 million, a cast that includes Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole and John Gielgud, a disowned screenplay by Gore Vidal and scene after scene of hardcore sex and violence, Penthouse Magazine publisher B... More - The History of the Machine Gun
FOCUSFILM Available now > Discovery Channel doc that only aired in Canada might garner interest from gun aficionados. This three-part look at the history of the 20th century’s most effective hand weapon is a straightforward, fact-filled chronology. From its invention in the late 19th century through its use in wars... More - The Hoax
DISNEY Street: Oct. 16 Prebook: now > Gere leads the assault in this outrageous true story about fake Howard Hughes bio. Based on the true story of writer Clifford Irving, who fabricated an authorized biography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes in the early ’70s and sold it to publisher McGraw-Hill for $1 million, The Hoax’s strongest suit is, well, the fact that it’s... More - Keith Richards: Under Review
MVD VISUAL Street: Sept. 18 Prebook: now > An unauthorized look at rock 'n’ roll’s original bad boy. “This film is not authorized by Keith Richards, his management or record company,” the back cover of Under Review plainly states, and we can see why. Bouncing back and forth between the tabloid-rich lifestyle of the Rolling Stones’ lead guitarist and some insigh... More
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