CDN$ 12.39
Boy loses girl, boy wins her back, boy loses her again and is killed in his pool. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age tragedy once again makes a somewhat rocky transition from page to screen in this A&E…
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Great Gatsby, the
Posted on August 3rd, 2010
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Mission Hill: The Complete Series
Posted on August 2nd, 2010
CDN$ 5.99
A colorful cross between the graphic art of Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) and the TV work of Judd Apatow (Freaks and Geeks), Mission Hill centers around 24-year-old slacker Andy French (Wallace Langham, CSI). A wannabe-cartoonist, Andy works at…
La Femme Nikita S4 Comp
Posted on August 1st, 2010
CDN$ 56.49
Amazon.ca
The fourth season of the espionage action series La Femme Nikita might’ve been its last, were it not for a heroic effort to revive the show by its fans. Since the campaign was a success, the fourth…
Behaving Badly
Posted on July 31st, 2010
CDN$ 29.26
Based on the book by Catherine Heath. the 1989 four-part British miniseries Behaving Badly is not to be confused with the Britcom, Men Behaving Badly. Judi Dench, as ever, commands the screen in her BAFTA-nominated performance as middle-aged…
Glass Menagerie, the
Posted on July 31st, 2010
CDN$ 15.88
Katharine Hepburn, one of the great American actresses, stars in this film adaptation of one of the greatest American plays, Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Hepburn plays Amanda Wakefield, a faded Southern belle now living in a small…
Amor Real
Posted on July 30th, 2010
CDN$ 9.54
The delirious passion and angst of Mexican telenovela Amor Real gets a condensed treatment on this concise DVD presentation. Amor Real tells the story of Matilde Penalver (Adela Noriega), a general’s daughter in love with a common soldier…
And the Band Played On
Posted on July 28th, 2010
CDN$ 5.78
Amazon.com Essential Video
A superior, made-for-cable film, this Home Box Office adaptation of Randy Shilts’s chronicle detailing the emergence of AIDS in America and the fight against bureaucracy and society for a cure is a taut, outrageous, and affecting…
Gotti: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Mafia Don
Posted on July 28th, 2010
CDN$ 4.16
A very impressive treatment of the rise and fall of New York crime boss John Gotti, this made-for-TV movie succeeds in large measure because of the outstanding work of Armand Assante (I, The Jury, Mambo Kings) as Gotti.…
Brian’s Song
Posted on July 27th, 2010
CDN$ 10.17
While women shed more than a few tears over Love Story back in 1970, men had their equivalent with Brian’s Song on TV. This biopic about the Chicago Bears’ Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers is no mere sports…
The Sopranos: The Complete Fourth Season
Posted on July 27th, 2010
CDN$ 40.98
Carmela to Tony: “Everything comes to an end.” True enough, Mrs. Sope, but on The Sopranos, the end comes sooner for some than others (rest in pieces, Ralph). Though for some the widely debated fourth season contained too…