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Movies! Stand-up! Celebrity Roasts! If you're looking for laughs, you just might find some here! Stranger Than Fiction allows Will Ferrell to reveal new dimensions; Borat finds Sascha Baron Cohen taking his most obnoxious character on an American road trip; insults reach new highs [and lows] in the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner, and […]

There a lot of ways to scare people: play on their fears [psychological thriller] as they do in Sublime; shock them with unexpected gore [splatter] as with Death Row, and pit them against ancient evils [demons, shaman, and the like] like the entity in The Manitou… Sublime What is the nature of fear? If we […]

For Casino Royale about the only things that haven't changed are the running time, and M [the always fascinating Dame Judi Dench]. The script is tighter and more character-driven; the international cast is composed of actors [not just pretty faces]; the stunts are simultaneously more real and more dangerous; the gizmos, while few and far […]

Once again, we find ourselves confronted with proof that a lower budget doesn't mean a less creative movie. Revenge of the Nerds is a classic example, and while Decoys: The Second Seduction might not be a classic, it's still pretty creative. Song For a Raggy Boy and Black Eyed Dog are dramas that also manage […]

Depending on whether you want action and interstellar travel via Stargate, or a little frothy, family-friendly fantasy, you can chose from two of this week's best TVonDVD releases: Stargate: Atlantis – The Complete Second Season, or Sabrina The Teenage Witch… Stargate: Atlantis: The Complete Second Season The first season of Stargate: Atlantis ended with the […]

Good or bad, these are four of the most intriguing DVD releases of the last few weeks: Purgatory House – a film written by and starring a fourteen-year old girl; C.R.A.Z.Y. – the story of a gay youth who escapes into flights of fantasy; The quiet – a tale of an orphaned girl whose deafness […]

"There's a man who lives a life of danger," sang Johnny Rivers in his hit song, Secret Agent Man, which opened the American run of Danger Man. The series, about taciturn young espionage agent John Drake, ran for eighty-six episodes over four seasons – paving the way for future hit espionage series like cult hits […]

It's not often that political documentaries are both informative and entertaining. It's even less often that three such documentaries appear on DVD at the same time. …So Goes The Nation makes the mechanics of presidential campaigns – in their last days – fascinating; Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing looks at how a simple statement […]

Darren [Sex and the City] Star's behind-the-scenes semi-satirical sitcom, Grosse Pointe, leads off a half-dozen of the most interesting of recent TVonDVD releases – along with Dario Argento's elegantly deranged Masters of Horror episode, Pelts; season one of the long-awaited cult classic, Beauty and the Beast; the first volume of Anything But Love [which paired […]