DVD & TV Aaron Sorkin has always been dangerously neurotic, but it didn't catch up with him until Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a weak comedy-drama but a fascinating study of what happens when one man decides ...   More

DVD & TV 1. Ken Burns Goes to WarCome September 2007, master documentarian Ken Burns turns his skillful eye and archival prowess to one of America's most played-out subjects: World War II. In a seven-part seri ...   More

DVD & TV To call 1940s screwball-comedy director Preston Sturges a serious filmmaker is to insult him. He knew all about serious movies—how every year at this time they tend to swell with social conscien ...   More

DVD & TV The Criterion Collection has achieved its crowning glory with the release of a new DVD box set containing 50 of the greatest foreign and art films in existence, taken from the vaults of Janus Films. G ...   More

DVD & TV In May 2005, a scandal broke in the pages of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. Popular conservative mayor Jim West was accused of trolling gay chat rooms on the Internet in search of young men. D ...   More

DVD & TV There have been more than a few horror films released theatrically this year, and with the studios' reluctance to screen genre films for the press, some have gone relatively unnoticed (and deservedly ...   More

DVD & TV It is almost embarrassing to admit, but up until two weeks ago, I had never seen Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil. Sure, I had read about it, knew about it, even rented it once, but I had never actual ...   More

DVD & TV It is quite possible that Toshiro Mifune was the greatest screen actor of the 20th century. Sure, there have been plenty of great actors, but when you look at the nearly 200 movies in Mifune's filmogr ...   More

DVD & TV By the time The Bill Cosby Show debuted in 1969, the Philadelphia comedian had already made a name for himself both as a comic and as the co-star of television's I Spy. In both of those roles, Cosby h ...   More

DVD & TV Two decades ago I graduated from Madison High School, where the most commonly asked question was, "What's that smell?" This weekend is my 20-year reunion, and in preparation, through the magic of DVD, ...   More