‘Frankenweenie’ a visually striking Blu-ray release with sparse supplements

“What fresh Hell is this?” Nick Cave: poetry and full-on violence.

‘Last Stand’ Image Gallery

First Image from New Pixar Short ‘The Blue Umbrella’

‘Rio Bravo’ shies away from bravado, concentrating on the essentials

2013 Midseason Pilot Preview

Downton Abbey, Episode 3.1

Mike’s Top Feature Films of 2012

‘The Comedy’ upper class self-crucifixion

‘Tombstone’ an anti-western but a timeless guilty pleasure

Elementary Ep.1.11, “Dirty Laundry” – Holmes goes all James Bond

‘Detour,’ a worthy B picture

Ten Video Games We Wish Were Live Action Movies

‘Jeremiah Johnson’ Hollywood’s Most Beautiful – and Saddest – Western

‘The Impossible’ is emotional and gripping – the best disaster movie in years

‘Steamboat Round the Bend’

Best of Mousterpiece Cinema 2012

Extended Thoughts on ‘Monsters, Inc.’

‘John Dies at the End’ is relatively compelling, often funny and never boring

“They’re Blowin’ This Town All To Hell!” — Sam Peckinpah And ‘The Wild Bunch’

‘Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid’ – Peckinpah’s Revisionist Masterpiece?

‘Unforgiven’: when forgiving and forgetting are not options (part 2)

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ an excellent, exhaustive account of the bin Laden manhunt