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New DVD Spin: The Great Debaters, Sinatra, Indiana Jones, and more

Warner Home Video's 'Some Came Running' dvd box art
Warner Home Video

This week's DVD release list is light on recent movies, but it's a fine week for fans (old and new) of vintage favorites.

Among the still-warm titles coming to little shiny discs, this week we get the tepid Diane Lane murder thriller Untraceable out from Sony on DVD and Blu-ray. Fans of the film will… Continued

On DVD: The Great Debaters

Denzel Washington in The Weinstein Co.'s 'The Great Debaters'
The Weinstein Co.

Now this is how I like to see period/historical films handled on DVD. Denzel Washington's second directorial effort, The Great Debaters, is a solid, heartwarming film about, of all things, racism in the south during the 1930s. The story of a group of young black students at a small southern… Continued

Q&A: 'Commander In Chief' Director Rod Lurie on the 2008 Election

Director Rod Lurie arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere of Yari Film's ''Resurrecting The Champ' held at the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Samuel Goldwyn Theatre on August 22,2007 in Beverly Hills, California
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You gotta love the zeitgeist. I don't just mean everything that's going on around us, but the actual word zeitgeist. Only the Germans have words of such delicate specificity.

But in the political sense, the… Continued

On DVD: Trippy Favorites

Jeff Bridges in Gramercy Pictures' 'The Big Lebowski'
Gramercy Pictures

Like the visual overload of 'Speed Racer'? Here are five more movies that'll blow your mind.


I got out of Speed Racer not long ago and I'm on board with the geek contingent on this one: it blew me away. It's a great family film, one I plan on raising my kids on. And unlike Iron Man, it gave me… Continued

On DVD: P.S. I Love You

Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank in Warner Bros. Pictures' 'P.S. I Love You'
Warner Bros.

Not one to shun a good chick flick, or even a bad one, when P.S. I Love You -- now available on DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray from Warner Home Video -- showed up on my doorstep, I found it impossible to pass up the wily Irish charms of Gerard Butler, the sappiness of the story or, most importantly, the… Continued

Stop, Speed Racer, Stop!

Lionsgate animated series 'Speed Racer: The Next Generation' dvd box art
Lionsgate

Hey, the oil is running out and gas is at four bucks a gallon, so of course we're bombarded with naughty automotive porn like NASCAR -- all those hussy drivers shamefully burning up the precious fluid and wantonly spewing hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. And now it's the kiddies' turn to get those… Continued

Movie of the Week: Yank Tanks

Blue Collar Films' 'Yank Tankers'
Phoenix Cinematografica

In Film.com's latest movie of the week, Yank Tanks, we get a look at the phenomenon of classic American cars in Cuba, the largest living automobile museum in the world.

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Yank Tanks (2002)
Producer/Director/Cinematographer: David Schendel
Editor: Jean Kawahara
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On DVD: Light On Horror? Here Are Some Suggestions...

The Weinstein Company's 'Black Sheep'
The Weinstein Company

Man, it's been a rough few months for us horror fans. Whether suffering through a series of terrible theatrical releases like The Eye and Prom Night or the recent video schlock like One Missed Call and Inside, it's been hard to find anything worth watching. So, for the benefit of my fellow horror… Continued

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Blue Collar Films' 'Yank Tankers'
Blue Collar Films

Yank Tanks

In Film.com's latest movie of the week, Yank Tanks, we get a look at the phenomenon of classic American cars in Cuba, the largest living automobile museum in the world.