We know how it is: You'd like to go to the movies this weekend, but you're gonna be busy staring at a big button, arguing with yourself about whether or not to push it. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday,…

"Live in fragments no longer," proclaims the heroine Margaret Schlegel in the E. M. Forster novel Howards End. Pure artistry defines this 1992 film from director James Ivory, which is as beautiful and timely 17 years later as the day it was released. Dealing with the problems of emotional…

If there is one terrible legacy left to us by filmmaking in the '90s, it is the notion of the twist-dependent thriller. After the critical (and box office) success of such films as The Usual Suspects, Lone Star, The Crying Game, and especially The Sixth Sense, films that were constructed entirely…

Fourteen years after Heat brought Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together onscreen for the first time, a new edition comes to Blu-ray. But do you need it?

De Niro plays McCauley, the head of a paramilitary-style robbery crew, with Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore as his backup and Pacino as Hanna, the cop…

We know how it is: You'd like to go to the movies this weekend, but you're still working on putting together your Michael Jackson costume for Halloween; sewing all those sequins onto that glove is taking forever. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right…