Christopher Walken

The Criterion Shelf: Bad Vacations

As an antidote to our pandemic wanderlust, The Criterion Channel has put together a list of films meant to remind us that going somewhere isn’t always a good thing.

No-Budget Nightmares #82 – Necroville

On their premiere episode for Dork Shelf, Moe and Doug waste away in 2007's Necroville! It’s Ghostbusters meets Shaun of the Dead – except with more giant chainsaws, hipster vampire masters, and falling pianos.

Home Entertainment Review: The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War (John Irvin, 1980) – The start of the 1980’s was such a unique time for movie making and storytelling. You could combine some unique social and political messages inside the frame work of a pretty ballsy and violent action movie.  On Blu-Ray for the first time from Twilight Time, The Dogs […]

Contest: Win STAND UP GUYS on DVD

Get ready for fun and excitement with some old friends out for one final night on the town. Our great summer giveaway weekend rolls on as Dork Shelf and eOne Films have teamed up to give away five copies of STAND UP GUYS on DVD. STAND UP GUYS stars Academy Award® winners Al Pacino, Christopher […]

This Week in DVD: 3/12/13

This week brings out some heavy hitters at the video store including Life of Pi, The Master, Hitchcock, Smashed, Playing for Keeps, This Must be the Place, and A Late Quartet.

The New Old: Robbin’ and Stealin’

This week's archival home entertainment column looks back at Michael Cimino's infamous box office flop Heaven's Gate, the strangely forgotten about Steven Spielberg hit Catch Me If You Can, and the classic noir The Postman Always Rings Twice.

A Late Quartet Review

It might sound like a dry, melodramatic bore on a surface level, but Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener work together to make the Orchestral ensemble dramedy A Late Quartet a real winner.

Seven Psychopaths Review

While In Bruges was tightly wound and focused, Martin McDonagh’s sophomore effort, Seven Psychopaths is more of a spiralling series of darkly comic episodes that only gets thoughtful in the climax and even then it's never really meant to be taken seriously. It’s his crack at creating a violent cult comedy and thankfully he’s got the skills (and the cast) to pull off that trick.

Interview: Colin Farrell & Martin McDonagh

We talked to Seven Psychopaths writer and director Martin McDonagh and its star Colin Farrell about their second collaboration following In Bruges, metafiction, the dark side of Los Angeles, and working with Christopher Walken and Tom Waits.