Following an extremely slow DVD release week last week, this week's columnists and Zack Kotzer take on a marginally less slow week with looks at Steven Soderbergh's Haywire , Ti West's The Innkeepers , and the unnecessary sequel/reimagining The Wicker Tree .
This week, action and misery seem to be the themes as takes on Shame and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , while Noah Taylor looks at The Divide , and Phil Brown watches Contraband
This week brings four DVD re-issues all dealing with various sorts of modern problems: Chinatown , The Terrorists , Modern Problems , and the entire series of Alf .
This week, everything pretty much stinks. Except Sleeping Beauty . That's only slightly bad.
This week, looks at several disappointing movies ( Chasing Madoff , We Bought a Zoo , and The Son of No One ) and one awesome Canadian TV show ( Todd and the Book of Pure Evil ), while Corey Atad waxes rhapsodic about the virtues of Spielberg's War Horse .
Here's lookin' at the gorgeous new Casablanca box set, kid. Also, a look at three other classic sets from the Warner Brothers archives courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.
Your course schedule for This Week in DVD: Psychology ( A Dangerous Method ), philosophy ( Confuscius ), physical education ( Monster Brawl ), American Studies ( Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ), film studies ( Corman's World ), and detention ( Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked ).
In our new archival DVD column, takes a look at the splatter action classic Battle Royale , while Phil Brown takes a look at Jim Jarmusch's revisionist western Dead Man .
Between Tinker Tailor Marilyn Muppets and a Girl With a Dragon Tattoo there's a lot to cover this week in DVD.
It's another big week of DVD/Blu-ray releases. This week Phil Brown takes a look at Steven Spielberg's big-screen adaptation of The Adventures Of Tintin , Lars Von Trier's crushing end of the world tale Melancholia , Jason Reitman's dark comedy Young Adult , HBO's Game of Thrones Season One box set, and more!
That Shelf talks to Amy Price-Francis, star of the Showcase comedy-drama King about the pressures of carrying a television show as a lead, the group dynamic of creating a crime procedural, and what to expect from season two of the show.
It's a Beauty Day for DVD releases with the release of the Academy Award winning Hugo , The Kid With a Bike , and one of the best films of last year. Also, Johnny English Reborn and the Canadian action thriller Bounty Hunters .
During a big week for DVD releases, we take a look at Brett Ratner's Tower Heist , the film festival favourite Martha Marcy May Marlene , the multiple Genie award nominee Café de Flore , and a trio of big name direct to DVD features starring the likes of Chris Evans, Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Ryan Reynolds, and Julia Roberts.
Not much of anything romantic on DVD this Valentine's Day (unless you count the family dynamic in the brilliant Take Shelter), but there are a pair of decent horror films, a drunken Johnny Depp, Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones arguing in a room for 90 minutes, and some pretty great philosophical discussions. Something for everyone! Except romantics.
This week on DVD we go nose to nose with Lady and the Tramp, shot for shot in the Texas Killing Fields, word for word with Anonymous, and puff for puff with A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas.
