DVD & TV It takes a special kind of person to sit down and watch what amounts to three versions of the same movie (two times each, if you count audio commentaries). But director George A. Romero's Dawn of the ...   More

DVD & TV George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances (2004)--There are a lot of comedians taking advantage of the trails blazed by Lenny Bruce (see story, page 64), who was the test case for the limits of freed ...   More

DVD & TV Canadian auteur David Cronenberg's 1983 Videodrome is a disturbing, darkly humorous treatise on the powerful influence of television, and it's the most fully realized of his early films. James Woods s ...   More

DVD & TV There's a common misconception that I hate the Star Wars movies. There's some truth to it, but "hate" is too strong of a word. It's more like I'm annoyed by Star Wars, and even then, it's hard to tell ...   More

DVD & TV Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindAll hyperbole aside, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the best films of the year. Oh, who am I kidding? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, direc ...   More

DVD & TV Blue Hill Avenue (2001)--Chronicling the lives of four inner-city friends from the mean streets of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, Blue Hill Avenue combines elements from the 'hood films of the early ' ...   More

DVD & TV Baadasssss! (2004)--Recounting how his father, Melvin, made the seminal 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Mario Van Peebles has put together Baadasssss!, a solid and entertaining picture th ...   More

DVD & TV Back in 2001, the Northwest Film Center presented a showcase of films by director Kinji Fukasaku. At the time I was only marginally aware of Fukasaku's work, having seen the cult classic Black Lizard ...   More

DVD & TV It had been about 20 years since I had last seen 1969's Vendetta for the Saint. I stayed up late to watch it on television one night and was convinced afterwards it was one of the coolest movies I'd e ...   More

DVD & TV Do you miss your tortured teenage angst of days gone by? Well, dust off your youthful idealism, sit back and reinvigorate your brain with these films of summertime teens gone wild:Y Tu Mamá Tam ...   More