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"The Da Vinci Code" is my idea of a perfect summer movie: a clunky potboiler of a film, based on a badly written, clunky potboiler of a novel. In the end, it's entertaining but, ultimately, something you can put out of your mind after viewing. Tom Hanks' Robert Langdon is even more dour than in […]

Concert DVDs are a dime a dozen – everybody and their dogs have one. Occasionally, though, you stumble across a concert DVD that makes you think, "Oh, man! I wish I had been there!" From The Big Apple to The Big Easy: The Concert For New Orleans is one of those rare DVDs… There is […]

One of the biggest mysteries of the year was how the smart, creepy, funny and scary Slither failed to become a big box office hit. The bigger mystery is this: why was Are You Scared even made?                   Slither When I first saw Slither, I thought it […]

It's the time of year when you can expect monsters and superheroes plotting their raids on the candy supplies of the neighborhood. To get into the proper spirit, here are a few Hallowe'en TVonDVD selections to tickle your funny bone, or rip it right off… Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up The latest release in […]

For Anchor Bay Entertainment, Hallowe'en is Christmas. The company specializes in horror and suspense – releasing hard to find titles and financing, or co-financing imaginative, low-budget genre titles – and October is their big release month. This year, Anchor Bay brings chills old and new: Abominable – the Rear Window of horror flicks; Monster Night […]

InuYasha is one of the most popular anime

It may have made more money than its predecessors, but X-Men – The Last Stand is the least of the three movies because writers Zak Penn and Simon Kinberg, and director Brett Ratner forgot one important thing: it doesn't matter if all the action set pieces are faithful to the comic when the underlying character […]

Banned from rebroadcast on cable TV! That's harsh, but Takashi Miike's episode of Masters of Horror is a very strange, very surreal and very violent excursion into the realm of Japanese horror. The episode is called Imprint, and it is not to be watched while eating! Also, DVD sets for two unexpected hits: The Unit […]

Some of this month's best DVD releases are indie films with small budgets and huge imaginations. Hard Candy is a psychological study that pits a young girl against a pedophile; The Proposition is a sprawling Down Under western that examines all sorts of moral dilemmas; District B13 is simply the summer's best pure action flick; […]

Why are hit TV shows hit TV shows? "Grey's Anatomy" mixes primetime soap with medical series to achieve something unique; "Lost" is a hybrid of ongoing series and anthology; "House" is Sherlock Holmes in a hospital and "Masters of Horror" [and especially "Dance of the Dead" is all about letting top-flight directors having free reign… […]