Ivana's DVD Blog November 2007 Archive

Although well-received on the festival circuit and winner of a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, Live-In Maid got only a limited release in American theaters. This is an emotionally ... Read More

The new DVD releases include Bratz, Mr. Bean's Holiday, The Namesake and Waitress. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD. More About New DVD ... Read More

Take a quick look at new releases of movies coming to DVD soon. 3:10 to Yuma DVD Balls of Fury DVD Good Luck Chuck DVD Halloween DVD Harry Potter and ... Read More

The year 2007 has seen the release of some outstanding movies on DVD, and I've made a list of those I found to be the best. My criteria included the ... Read More

Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) is an important film, both in terms of cinema history and world history, and it is well worth watching many times. But over ... Read More

The new DVD releases include Hairspray, Live Free or Die Hard and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next ... Read More

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) made about 30 movies over a period of 50 years, and he was a major influence on the Spielberg-Coppola-Lucas-Scorsese generation of filmmakers. But it's difficult to think ... Read More

In Sicko, Michael Moore has created a film that is witty and thought-provoking. The movie is flat-out agitprop, but it isn't boring. Although his examination ... Read More

The new DVD releases include Amazing Grace, La Vie en Rose, Ocean's Thirteen and Shrek the Third. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's ... Read More

I feel that movies about military life can be among the most dramatic of all films and can reveal much about the human condition as it is framed by politics ... Read More

Actress Marion Cotillard gives a powerful performance in La Vie en Rose (2007), a French-language biopic about iconic singer Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Cotillard plays Piaf as she goes from 20-year-old ... Read More

The new DVD releases include Deck the Halls, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Ratatouille and Sicko. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next ... Read More

Take a quick look at new releases of movies coming to DVD soon. Bratz DVD Hairspray DVD Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD The Nanny Diaries DVD ... Read More