Jodie Foster

Contact

October 14, 2009 // 0 Comments

While "Contact" may not be the major driving force on Blu-Ray that it was when it was first released on DVD in 1998 and sold out in virtually every store overnight, but it still is a movie with enormous appeal, particularly when presented in [...]

Inside Man

June 19, 2009 // 0 Comments

Spike Lee's "Inside Man" concerns a bank robbery. A most unusual bank robbery, in fact. The robbery is organized by Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), who addresses the camera directly at the film's opening to give us the Who, What, When, [...]

The Silence Of The Lambs

March 16, 2009 // 0 Comments

Based on the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, "The Silence of the Lambs" took home five Oscars (Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Writing for a Screenplay Based on Another Medium) in 1992. What made this movie [...]

Flightplan

March 7, 2007 // 0 Comments

"People will think what I tell them to think. That's how authority works." 'Flightplan' brings Jodie Foster back to her dark roots in this thriller that sadly fails to fully engage its audience, though. To be reasonable, [...]

Flightplan

January 13, 2006 // 0 Comments

"Flightplan" is a movie that touches upon every parent's worst nightmare and as such is an incredible emotional and suspenseful film for everyone who has children of their own. It is also Jodie Fosters first major movie since "Panic [...]

The Silence of the Lambs

September 6, 2001 // 0 Comments

To coincide with the unleashing of ’Hannibal’ on DVD, MGM Home Entertainment has released a new Special Edition of ’Silence of the Lambs’. This single-disc edition boasts a new high-definition 16×9 anamorphic transfer, which is letterboxed at [...]

The Hotel New Hampshire

August 3, 2001 // 0 Comments

Tony Richardson’s disjointed, sluggish adaptation of John Irving’s novel ’The Hotel New Hampshire’ charts the tribulations of the oddball Berry clan. How weird are they? ’Father’ (Beau Bridges) perpetually dreams of running any hotel named [...]

Anna And The King

September 28, 2000 // 0 Comments

"What an elaborate and sweeping experience, " I though to myself while I was watching the end credits of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s DVD version of "Anna And The King." It is the kind of film, they just don’t make any [...]

Taxi Driver

June 24, 1999 // 0 Comments

"Taxi Driver" has radically changed Robert DeNiro’s career back in 1976, establishing him as a first class character actor. The reason is blatantly obvious to everyone watching this powerful film by director Martin Scorcese, which sent DeNiro [...]

The Silence Of The Lambs

January 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Based on the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, "The Silence of the Lambs" took home five Oscars (Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Writing for a Screenplay Based on Another Medium) in 1992. What made this movie [...]
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