If you enjoy the glamor of old movies, you should check out The Cat’s Meow.
It’s based on a famous mystery of 1920s Hollywood. One weekend, W.R. Hearst (Edward Herrmann) and his mistress Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst) hosted some friends on his yacht, including Charlie Chaplin (Eddie Izzard, in his best performance yet), gossip columnist [...]

The Surrogates DVD comes out tomorrow, and to promote it, the studio made director Jonathan Mostow available for online interview questions. Mostow previously directed Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, so he’s known for his science fiction action. He also wrote and directed U-571, which won an Oscar for Best Sound Editing.
This piece consists [...]

Out on Tuesday is the DVD for Surrogates, the Bruce Willis action movie based on the Top Shelf graphic novel about a murder in a world where everyone uses a robot version of themselves to leave the house. Here’s the trailer:

I’ve already talked about my opinion of the film, in that first link when I [...]

Now this is the way to handle a fan/cult favorite.
I picked up Howard the Duck today, and I’m impressed. In addition to the movie, available relatively cheaply, the DVD has a documentary (almost a half-hour) checking in with all the bits I remember about the film: how they found the comic, modern-day footage with [...]

I caught the classic A Letter to Three Wives on the Fox Movie Channel earlier this week and very much enjoyed it.
It’s an engrossing story. Three friends are setting out to take a bunch of kids on a charity picnic one Saturday. The notorious Addie Ross was going to join them. (She was a [...]

Tonight airs a new episode of Leverage, the caper mystery series, on TNT at 10 PM Eastern/Pacific. It’s called “The Bottle Job”, in which Timothy Hutton’s character Nate returns to his old Boston neighborhood’s Irish pub on the occasion of the owner’s wake. Unfortunately, his daughter and sole heir has just been threatened by a [...]

Right now, Amazon has ridiculously low prices on Lost season sets. Seasons 4 and 5 are 20 bucks each! 1 and 2 are $17! Blu-Ray are $35 or $37!
I guess they feel, with the last season starting, better get rid of them now. But if you want to catch up on the mythology in [...]

I was shocked to get a Blockbuster flyer today that offered me, as a potential new member, 30 days of free movie and game rentals. Small print says it’s only one rental at a time and a credit card is required for the video game rentals. Still, that’s a pretty good deal. Almost enough to [...]

I’m looking forward to seeing the debut of the Human Target TV series tomorrow night on FOX (before it moves into its Wednesday timeslot starting January 20). It’s loosely based on the DC Comics character, starring Mark Valley (Boston Legal, Swingtown, Fringe) as bodyguard-for-hire Christopher Chance.
I say “loosely based” because the main gimmick of [...]

Leverage returns on TNT with a mini-season of six episodes starting tonight at 10 PM ET. (The first half of the season started last July, and the first season is available on DVD.)
In “The Runway Job”, the team aims to take down a sweatshop exploiter and his wannabe designer wife. This setting of course [...]

Review by KC Carlson
Chuck is one of the best current shows on TV that you are not watching.
For those of you who ARE watching Chuck, you probably already know that Chuck: The Complete Second Season is now available on DVD, including all 22 episodes, plus the 3-D episode in both standard and 3-D formats. (Two [...]

Next Monday, January 18, which many but not all Americans have off for Martin Luther King Day, will be a Mythbusters marathon on the Discovery Channel. During the all-day marathon, they’ll be announcing a sweepstakes where the prize is a trip to the San Diego Con to meet Adam and Jamie. No details yet on [...]

KC and I were surprised to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus come to Richmond, so we went to see it quickly while we still could. (Back before the newspaper fired the movie critic, every year around Oscar time, he’d list his picks, typical well-reviewed stuff, then note how only about 40% of them had [...]

We bought the 10th Anniversary re-release of 10 Things I Hate About You because it had extras, and the original DVD release didn’t. One is the commentary; one is a digital copy (which I don’t care about) on a second disc; and one is the extra “10 Things I Love About 10 Things I Hate [...]

On January 19, Universal is going to re-release the Bourne movies — The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum — as the first of their Blu-Ray/ DVD “Flipper” Discs.
The Bourne IdentityBuy this DVD
These discs contain both movie formats on one piece of plastic: standard DVD is on one side, Blu-Ray on [...]

In preparation for his upcoming review, KC and I have been watching Chuck Season 1 and 2 on DVD.
Chuck Season 2
We loved them even more the second time around! When we watched them on TV, we enjoyed the blend of spy caper action and romantic comedy and geek humor, but when you watch several [...]

In return for more favorable pricing and more catalog movies available for streaming, Netflix agreed not to rent Warner Bros. DVDs for the first 28 days of their release. Warner thinks that a month’s delay will mean more people buying the discs instead of watching for one low monthly fee. I think that someone who [...]

I very much sympathized with this NPR blog piece on how only half of the run of the sitcom Anything But Love is available on DVD. That early-90s show starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis as co-workers and best friends who attempted to navigate their cross-gender relationship. It was often quite funny, and the [...]

Superman Ultimate Collector’s EditionBuy this DVD set
Earlier this month, Amazon put the Batman movie set on sale for 75% off. Now the Superman Ultimate Collector’s Edition is on similar deep discount.
Normally $100, the tin containing six Superman movies (the four original series, Superman Returns, and the alternate director’s cut of the second film) is [...]

From their press release:
Beginning in the first quarter of 2010, Warner Home Video will be releasing its entire Theatrical New Release slate as Blu-Ray combo packs, containing a Blu-Ray disc of the film with exclusive special features and exciting BD-Live interactivity, a standard-definition DVD, and a Digital Copy of the film. For no additional [...]