DVD & TV It's pretty easy to dismiss Sylvester Stallone's career, as for the better part of two decades he's made some real crap. But just because his career has been riddled with really bad films does not mea ...   More

DVD & TV Peter Biskind's 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood was a trashy, gossip-ridden page-turner that delved into the last great era of Amer ...   More

DVD & TV You would think it was my birthday this week, as three of my favorite movies arrived on DVD, each in a two-disc special edition. Sure, I already own Enter the Dragon, The Great Escape and The Good, th ...   More

DVD & TV I'm regressing. Dreaming of high school again. It's all coming back: visions of humiliations private and public, of doing or saying or wearing the wrong thing, in the wrong place, at the wrongest poss ...   More

DVD & TV Having trouble deciding what to watch on home video? Think you've seen it all? Here is something you may have missed.The Stranger (1946)--Few filmmakers have the sort of reputation bestowed upon Orson ...   More

DVD & TV Having trouble deciding what to watch on home video? Think you've seen it all? Here are some films you may have missed.The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)--Best-known for his performances in such films a ...   More

DVD & TV Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the great American novel most writers are too timid to attempt--an epic road trip undertaken by two men whose constant consumption of drugs and b ...   More

DVD & TV This weekend two tales of vigilantes and vengeance will be slugging it out at the box office. First you've got Kill Bill, Vol. 2, Quentin Tarantino's rather disappointing follow-up to the revenge-mind ...   More

DVD & TV With his fourth film, Kill Bill, Vol. 1, Quentin Tarantino re-established himself as the hippest iconic filmmaker of his generation. The first chapter of Kill Bill arrives on home video next week, whi ...   More

DVD & TV Matt McCormick's Peripheral Produce screening series began in 1996 in a string of warehouses and punk clubs, exhibiting work from Portland's underground film and video artists. The series quickly caug ...   More