DVD & TV Call it what you want-a lucky coincidence or some sort of sinister conspiracy-but the acquittal of Robert Blake for his wife's murder, days before the film Electra Glide in Blue comes out on DVD, is p ...   More

DVD & TV A few days ago I got an email from one of my esteemed colleagues at another publication asking me, "What should we expect this year at the Longbaugh Film Festival?" I responded with two words: "The un ...   More

DVD & TV It's not cool for film critics to like Top Gun. After all, the movie represents Hollywood's exasperating preference for testosterone-heavy cliché-fests with frenzied editing and lowest-common-d ...   More

DVD & TV Longbaugh 2005 is less than a month away (March 24-27 to be exact), and things here are out of control. We've received films from all over the world that have kept me and the rest of the screening com ...   More

DVD & TV If you're already a fan of the FX cop drama The Shield, then you know that shy of a select few shows on HBO, there's nothing better on television. With the fourth season getting ready to kick off, and ...   More

DVD & TV I wish all of you reading this could have had the opportunity to know my grandparents, and to experience, even for the briefest of moments, the world as I saw it during my childhood. There was always ...   More

DVD & TV Portland has long been a Mecca for animators, and one of the most prolific and gifted is Joanna Priestley, whose work is now collected on two DVDs: Fighting Gravity and Relative Orbits.Both the newest ...   More

DVD & TV The Portland Jewish Film Festival, which ends this week, provides wonderful opportunities to see works from the Jewish experience. But there are other great films out there, including two recent DVD r ...   More

DVD & TV Assault on Precinct 13 is one of the greatest action films of all time. Of course, I'm not talking about the putrid movie starring Ethan Hawke and Lawrence Fishburne, which is about to be unleashed in ...   More

DVD & TV Originally released in 1978 as a made-for-television miniseries, King remains a remarkable achievement, not only as a product of television but as a biopic that manages not to fall victim to the genre ...   More