DVD & TV Hotel Rwanda is not the first film to deal with volatile issues in Africa. It is, however, one of the few that chooses to cast a black person as the main character, rather than focusing on white peopl ...   More

DVD & TV Referring to someone as a "comedic genius" is not something I do lightly. Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby are comedic geniuses. George Carlin and Chris Rock come pretty damn close. And then ...   More

DVD & TV Some films are beautiful beyond plot or scenery and are happy marriages of mood and character, more like tone poems than conventional narratives. One of these rare delights is Wim Wenders' 1984 Paris, ...   More

DVD & TV Considered one of Japan's greatest directors, Kinji Fukasaku had broken new ground with his brilliant 1972 film Street Mobster, starring Bunta Sugawara. That film helped to establish both director and ...   More

DVD & TV When Roman Polanski's The Pianist was released in 2002, a common line found among its praise was that it was his first great film in more than 20 years. While I wouldn't so quickly dismiss Death & ...   More

DVD & TV Yes, Seinfeld is the must-have TV-show-on-DVD of the season. But there are other great, if less celebrated, sets out there.Mr. Show with Bob & David is an HBO sketch comedy show that ran from '95 ...   More

DVD & TV John Cassavetes is the archetypal modern American independent filmmaker. There were other mavericks before him, like Orson Welles and Samuel Fuller, but Cassavetes' singular style and determination to ...   More

DVD & TV In 1964, a British television documentary gathered 14 7-year-olds from different economic and societal backgrounds for a series of interviews. The age was chosen from a Jesuit maxim, "Give me a child ...   More

DVD & TV With Ray currently playing in theaters and earning accolades, it's time to spotlight a great musician's bio-pic that somehow hasn't gotten its popular due over the years: Bird (1988). Directed by Clin ...   More

DVD & TV Since the 1990s, Disinfo.com has served as a clearinghouse for information on conspiracy theory, UFOs, the counterculture and the occult. "Dossiers" filled with hyperlinks provide everything you might ...   More