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" Joss Whedon's 'Buffyverse' included both his brilliant series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff, Angel," notes Richard Harrington in the Washington Post. "Factor in Firefly, the space cowboy series canceled by Fox in 2003, and you've got a good case for Whedon being one of television's visionaries." On the occasion of the release of Angel: Complete Series, Sean Axmaker talks with Whedon about the series, about what else he's been up to lately and about the movie he's "finishing a polish on" even now. Read article >> |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Day Watch, Devil, and much more.
- What We're Watching: No End, MST3K, and Nuit Noire.
- Service Highlights: Quick returns!
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The sequel to the wildly successful - in Russia - and quite crazy Night Watch (which quickly became a cult fave here in the US, too), Day Watch picks up where that one left off, as the war between the forces of Light and Dark shifts when Anton comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow. "Seems less shocking and overwhelmingly strange than "Night Watch," wrote Michael Wilmington, "[but] it's another rocking mix of gritty thriller and glitzy sci-fi, once again in the vein of the director Bekmambetov's idols Quentin Tarantino and the Wachowski brothers." |
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This one's worth getting excited about just for the Satellite of Love's takedown of Parts: The Clonus Horror, the bad movie with a great plot idea, that clearly inspired (or was ripped off by) another bad movie with a great plot idea, The Island with Ewan McGregor. But besides that, and three other great episodes of the series (2 with Joel, 2 with Mike), the discs also include original theatrical trailers for the movies, more musical mayhem courtesy of the MST3K Video Jukebox, interviews with The Rebel Set star Don Sullivan and with Robert Fiveson, director of Clonus Horror and more! Push the button, Frank. |
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James Van Maanen has the lowdown on one of the most important films of the year, and "one of the best of the umpteen Iraq documentaries so far... [Director Charles] Ferguson, a political scientist, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former software entrepreneur, is clearly a very smart man, managing to compile a wealth of information and then edit it into an understandable whole. These are talking heads, yes, but what they are saying are things we have not heard before--particularly from the people who, though underlings, were present at the creation of what may be America's greatest mistake." Read full review >> |
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This atmospheric French suspense film - just out on DVD today - is almost indescribable, but Michael Guillen at Twitch gives it a try: "[The film] is set in an alternate reality where the world has been plunged into darkness because of an eternal eclipse—which allows only a fleeting 15 seconds of sunshine in each 24-hour period— Nuit Noire inherits a night logic of surrealistically-interpreted dream images (twinning abounds) and purposely contaminated chronologies. [It] requires attention, investment, and subsequent rumination. It’s my kind of film and one of the best in the [Dead Channels] festival." |
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As promised, Quick Returns are here! This new GreenCine feature will allow our members to speed up the shipping process by alerting us that DVDs have been sent back to GreenCine. Thus you won't have to wait for the whims of the USPS. Just go into your queue and click the "quick return" link next to the title you've returned. We'll automatically send you the next available titles in your queue within two days, even if your shipments have not yet arrived to our shipping facility. Enjoy! ( Discuss here.) |
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