The two-disc collector's edition delves even further into the real-life tale of a media-savvy serial killer who took the lives of at least 13 and was never caught.
Blue Planet
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray If you feel the need to justify your upgrade to high-def, this doc will shut up even the biggest Luddite. You get 44 minutes of footage of earth shot from the space shuttle using IMAX’s 15/70 format; translated, the images are crisp, clean, and absolutely gorgeous. You also get [...]
Looking for a little mindless entertainment to set up when you're sitting around getting buzzed with the boys? You could do a whole lot worse than this.
The movie's good-natured jabs at Hollywood stereotypes and conventions are some of the funniest moments we've seen on film in recent years, but that doesn't take away anything from the action.
The Monster Squad
Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen MachtBack in the late eighties, when films about groups of geeky kids were a fleeting trend, writer/director Fred Dekker made this movie in which Dracula and other monsters try to take over the world. Man kind’s last line of defense is a bunch of outsiders called the Monster [...]
Ghost Rider
Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes
This wasn’t the best comics adaptation, but the making-of bonuses can be worth watching when there are this many special effects. The two-disc extended edition includes three behind-the-scenes featurettes, plus one on the comic’s 40-year history. It also boasts 15 minutes of new footage. We’ll let you decide whether or not [...]
HBO’s gritty, profanity-laden depiction of the American West went out in style, with Deadwood’s founders facing their first elections. While you wait for the two upcoming movies that will conclude the drama, lose yourself in “Deadwood Matures,� the new “historical perspective� on the era.
By Barbara Rice Thompson
This three-disc set of last year’s episodes proves our favorite angry young man hasn’t mellowed any in his mid-forties, but he’s as entertaining as ever; it includes interviews with Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Stone. Or pick up Uncut From NYC, filmed during Rollins’s spoken-word tour.
By Barbara Rice Thompson
In our opinion, FX is the only network that would embrace a hero who drinks like alcohol is about to be outlawed and sleeps with every woman he can find—which is why it’s our favorite. This four-disc set includes a season-four preview and a half dozen featurettes, including one called—we shit you not—“Going to the [...]
Norbit
Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton
Forget the Oscar bait and the family-friendly dreck. Eddie Murphy, master of the multicharacter turn, plays the unas suming title character—not to men- tion a Chinese guy and a nasty fat chick—and he’s just the way you like him: unapologetically unsubtle and not at all worried about insulting people. Norbit doesn’t measure [...]
Breach
Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe
In this post-9/11 world, an FBI agent selling secrets to the KGB seems oddly quaint. Still, Robert Hanssen’s treason was the most damaging intelligence breach in American history. The always impressive Cooper inhabits Hanssen with a quiet creepiness, and Phillippe almost mea-sures up as the unlucky soul who has to double-cross the [...]