From the Box

It’s Oscar season and Pat Brown is pondering the Academy. So grab a 30 pack of PBR, call your cousin in Vegas and roll out the red carpet.

A must see for those interested in the film noir genre, Brand Upon the Brain! manages to be as personal as it is experimental and stylized.

It may not be the fourth-greatest film ever made, but Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is destined to be one of those fondly remembered pop masterpieces, the rare film which satisfies a large number of …

A few people have spent time predicting the end of the superhero movie in recent months, but the genre-movement whose demise I’m anticipating (sooner and with more glee) is the children/teen-oriented fantasy film. The Lord …

The Christmas shopping season starts this weekend, but the disc everyone wants for their respective holiday is still two weeks away. But I’m sure that there will be no shortage of mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, …

A slew of films are out today on DVD, including a couple of the summer’s biggest hits. There’s also one of those holiday-convenient box sets. But before we get into all that, have you seen …

The prominence of self-conscious genre films in (post-) postmodernism is a phenomenon which at times can grate the nerves, as anyone who has tried to watch Shoot ‘Em Up more than once can tell you. …

Now that Halloween is over, we’re getting dangerously close to the holiday season, so be on the lookout for expensive box sets of DVDs you already own and the bigger movies from this summer, including, …

More than any other holiday, with the debatable exception of Christmas, the Halloween experience is very much defined by the films we associate with it. The Halloween season lasts for about a week — it’s …