DVD Releases

"Showgirl is my Yentl": The 145-Minute Showgirls Sequel That Could

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: What Happened?

Graham Parker

Jack Black Tells Me About Playing A Gay

Bernie--based on the real-life story of a well-liked mortician who killed his nasty lady friend but pretended she was still alive--is out on DVD. At the release party at Merc Bar last night, star Jack Black told me what it was like to meet the real Bernie Tiede as the movie was being prepared. "I' ... More >>

BURIED TREASURE

Forgotten footage of the 
Muppets is found

A Gay "Formula Movie" Levels The Playing Field

A "formula movie" is a standard-issue flick that unabashedly retreads a familiar plotline. It generally has a setup, a dramatic turning point, a revelation, a climax, and an ending, and as the train chugs along, you can pretty much see the wheels turning. The Green -- co-starring this week's colu ... More >>

Eva Longoria Wants You to Know Kids Are Farming Your Food

The Harvest​Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is promoting a documentary that exposes the ugly truth about child labor in this country's agriculture system. If you missed The Harvest's short run this summer, the film is now out on DVD. Some 25 percent of the food we eat is harvested by c ... More >>

The Rebirth Brass Band Bring Their Brashness To Treme

​During the first episode of HBO's Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show's trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste's ex-wife, LaDonna Batiste-Williams. The uncomfortable nature of their reunion is underscored ... More >>

Janet Jackson Has Some Butch Competition

​ Butch Cordora is a Philadelphia-based TV personality who famously did a calendar called Straight & Butch, in which he lay naked with 12 hetero guys (but not all at once), often simulating famous images from pop culture. Well, here's a famous Janet Jackson photo you'll recognize, adjacent t ... More >>

The Broken Promises of Bruce Springsteen

His remastered Darkness on the Edge of Town doesn't exactly show a light touch

Hound of the Baskervilles and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on DVD

Choose Basil Rathbone over Robert Downey

Explaining the Success of Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Which Has Sold More Copies Than 50 Cent's Before I Self-Destruct and That Joanna Newsom Record Combined

​A small shift at the top of the charts this week -- snoozy country act Lady Antebellum retakes the top spot, with Need You Now selling 126,000 copies to the smoky Sade album Soldier Of Love's 79,000 -- is followed by a slew of debuts from artists of varying notoriety. Polarizing American Idol ... More >>

Let Us All Now Enjoy "The 10 Most Ridiculous Things About the Beyonce Experience"

Beyonce has a new DVD out. Would you trust anyone other than the indispensable Rich Juzwiak to distill it to its essence? No? Good. "Everything about the next two seconds" is probably our favorite.

"Hot Hate Sex" and Elton John's Revenge in 27 Dresses

New York Neo-Realism on DVD

From Coney Island to Rye Playland

Holm Sweet (Celeste) Holm at All About Eve Screening

Southland Tales Again: No Direction Home

Don't expect clarification on the DVD

Princes of Darkness

From Cat People to Starman: The B-horrors of John Carpenter and Val Lewton

Bah, Humbug!

Bad Santa, as it was intended

Christmastime for Hitler

Two monster DVD sets for the holidays

Sucker Edition

The good news for Zodiac fanatics is that the DVD version offers new angles on futility and frustration. The bad news is why.

Nuts, Ninjas, and Metamorphic Sprites

Come on people, how much more do you need out of Princess Raccoon? Also on DVD, Fritz Lang's clockwork noir The Woman in the Window.

From Mongolia or Outer Space?

Idiosyncratic sci-fi films Sans Soleil and La Jetée hit DVD. Plus, good directors gone bad and bad directors gone worse.

My Cup Runneth Over

. . . with beauty queens, drama queens, and just plain queens. Plus dirt so dirty it'll make you go go blind

After 30 Years, Killer of Sheep Finally Gets a Proper Debut

Plus: Spidey number three, and four from Criterion

Imamura's Controlled Chaos

Japan's grimy, dark underbelly, through the clear eyes of its great rebel auteur

Queasy Rider

Nicolas Cage sells his soul for another Hollywood hit

Rack Focus

Intimate Bach Piece Finds the Primal Essence of Cinema

All's Wells That Ends Welles: Pal and Spiellberg Trade War Stories

Rack Focus

Bubble Economy: A New Era of Narrowing Release Windows

Rack Focus

Rack Focus

La Dolce Musto

One of Werner Herzog's Bottomless Mysteries

Focused And Relentless Absurdity, Plus Ben Stiller

Hungarian Master Keeps Feet on the Ground in Early Works

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Space Odysseys

Moviehead Holiday Gift Guide

Showing Off

Bob and David Tell You What to Think

Distribute the Wealth

Letters

Cooper Union

Shelf Life

Edged Out

A Brief History of Outrage

The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments

Cinema of Forking Paths

Choosing your own adventure on the little screen