DVD & TV It wasn't until near the end of his life and career that Japanese filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku really came to the attention of American audiences. In 2000, his final film, Battle Royale, exploded on the s ...   More

DVD & TV The other day I went to the video store looking for something that wouldn't be too intellectually challenging, but would prove some mindless fun. There were all sorts of movies to choose from, but the ...   More

DVD & TV Check This Out: The JobWhen a television series is canceled after only one season, it usually means one thing: The show sucked. But every now and then a show comes along that isn't total crap but stil ...   More

DVD & TV Blurring the lines between westerns, film noir, and mysteries, Bad Day at Black Rock is hard to categorize. Released on DVD this week, director John Sturges' 1954 film is a seamless marriage of multip ...   More

DVD & TV Check it Out: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonNot to be confused with pop musician Jack Johnson, or Mos Def's rock group Black Jack Johnson, the Jack Johnson was the first, un ...   More

DVD & TV Of the tens of thousands of photographs in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, only two show the three-term president in a wheelchair. HBO's biopic Warm Springs, from longtime television d ...   More

DVD & TV Check this out: New SuitNew Suit screened at the Portland International Film Festival back in 2003 and was quickly forgotten-but not before it made enough of an impression on me that I was excited to ...   More

DVD & TV Late last year, Incident at Loch Ness crept into the Hollywood Theatre. I was instantly taken by the film, a dark, twisted comedy that brilliantly played with the notions of fact and fiction. And sinc ...   More

DVD & TV Brewster McGeeLast year, the Clinton Street Theater hosted a weekend-long showcase of promising filmmakers. If you weren't lucky enough to get to any of the screenings, then you missed some films that ...   More

DVD & TV If those of you who read this column on a regular basis haven't figured it out yet, Kinji Fukasaku is one of my all-time favorite directors. Fukasaku's career spanned five decades and spawned more tha ...   More