May 6, 2008

From The Red Balloon to The Fall of the Roman Empire, it's an usual week for DVD releases.

-Peter Patrick (May 6, 2008)

April 29, 2008

Little films, big films, Oscar nominees and winners, and a few that you might have missed.

-Peter Patrick (April 29, 2008)

April 22, 2008

All you need to know about 14 new releases - 7 from 2007 and 7 ranging from 24 to 75 years ago.

-Peter Patrick (April 22, 2008)

April 15, 2008

The films of 50 years ago - my take on 33 films from 1958.

-Peter Patrick (April 15, 2008)

April 8, 2008

There Will be Blood and Chipmunks while Eleanor taps and Janie sings!

-Peter Patrick (April 8, 2008)

April 1, 2008

The Kite Runner, Sweeney Todd, Bette Davis times 11 and Angela Lansbury times 3.

-Peter Patrick (April 1, 2008)

March 25, 2008

The skinny on 16 classic films and 3 new ones just released on DVD.

-Peter Patrick (March 25, 2008)

March 18, 2008

From No Country for Old Men to Black Widow, it's a wicked, wicked week for DVD reviews.

-Peter Patrick (March 18, 2008)

March 11, 2008

This week I trace the career of "The Man on Lincoln's Nose", honorary Oscar winner, Robert F. Boyle, and his contributions to the art of cinema.

-Peter Patrick (March 11, 2008)

March 4, 2008

The Oscars are over and no major film collections have been released, so Peter has gone back to looking at the latest releases including a Criterion edition of The Last Emperor and a number of other 2007 film releases.

-Wesley Lovell (March 4, 2008)

February 26, 2008

In celebration of Sunday's Academy Awards, Peter takes a look back at a small handful of the best winners of the top prizes at the Oscars.

-Wesley Lovell (February 26, 2008)

February 19, 2008

With the Academy Awards less than a week away, Peter takes us through the various Oscar-nominated films being released on DVD prior to the big event. He also looks at three new classic film collections that also earn releases this week.

-Wesley Lovell (February 19, 2008)

February 12, 2008

This week, Peter looks at three specific groupings of new releases. First on his list are the films of Jane Austen. Next up is the Lubitsch musical collection and he winds up looking at a new Joan Crawford collection and a smattering of other films.

-Wesley Lovell (February 12, 2008)

February 5, 2008

Peter returns to his weekly recap of new releases focusing on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Across the Universe, The Brave One and others.

-Wesley Lovell (February 5, 2008)

January 29, 2008

In celebration of the life of one of the great, young modern thespiasn, ripped tragically from the world of cinema, Peter takes a look back at the masterful career of Heath Ledger.

-Wesley Lovell (January 29, 2008)

January 22, 2008

To coincide with Oscar nomiantion morning and a new DVD release, Peter takes a look at the 1967 Academy Awards at the 40th Oscars.

-Wesley Lovell (January 22, 2008)

January 15, 2008

In preparation for the impending Oscar nominations in one week's time, Peter has brought us this look at the films that were nominated for Best Picture on the 25th, 50th and 75th years of the Academy Awards.

-Wesley Lovell (January 15, 2008)

January 8, 2008

Peter returns to reviewing new releases and has several to look over. He leads off with Stardust and 3:10 to Yuma and moves on to the special edition of Zodiac and several older releases.

-Wesley Lovell (January 8, 2008)

January 1, 2008

We begin 2008 with a retrospective of the best DVD releases of 2007 as Peter looks back with fondness and ranks the ten best. He's also working on an update listing the Oscar nominees and winners that got their first DVD release in region 1 over the past year, so the report will be updated just as soon as this information is ready.

-Wesley Lovell (January 1, 2008)

December 25

Peter finishes up his musical retrospective carrying forward from A Little Night Music to the most recent Hairspray along with a few new films in release this week.

-Wesley Lovell (December 25, 2007)

December 18

Could Peter have been any more excited about his John Ford collection? For the third straight week, he talks about the Ford at Fox collection and a handful of other new releases including The Bourne Ultimatum and December Boys.

-Wesley Lovell (December 18, 2007)

December 11

With no John Ford collection in sight, Peter takes us on a tour of the career of legendary Hollywood director John Ford, still the only person to win 4 Academy Awards in the Best Direction category.

-Wesley Lovell (December 11, 2007)

December 4

Peter reviews a new Bob Hope collection along with several other new releases. His look at the Ford at Fox collection is sadly put off for a week.

-Wesley Lovell (December 4, 2007)

November 27

Thanksgiving is now over and Peter's back to the DVD grind exploring new releases from Werner Herzog and the new version of Hairspray.

-Wesley Lovell (November 27, 2007)

November 20

With the Thanksgiving holiday only two days away, Peter decided it was time to look at the slim pickings of Thanksgiving-themed films, which there are outrageously few. Afterwards, he decides to look at his favorite Christmas films. What he'll do for Christmas now, I have no idea. :)

-Wesley Lovell (November 20, 2007)

November 13

Peter's regular walk down memory lane is filled with several new recent releases this week.

-Wesley Lovell (November 13, 2007)

November 6

This week, Peter returns to the musical genre with another retrospective, this time cataloguing the successes of musicals through the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. He covers territory from Oklhaoma! all the way through Cabaret and even manages to bring down some of the genre's failures.

-Wesley Lovell (November 6, 2007)

October 30

Peter once again is on the recent-release DVD trail after tarying from his path for last week's Halloween updat. He looks at a number of new and recent releases including a glimpse at the new Stanley Kubrick collection and more Criterion Collection DVDs

-Wesley Lovell (October 30, 2007)

October 23

In preparation for Halloween, Peter gives us a look at his favorite horror films from Frankenstein through The Sixth Sense and many things in between.

He also provides us with a list of films to watch in honor of the work and career of Deborah Kerr who died October 18 at the age of 86.

-Wesley Lovell (October 23, 2007)

October 16

This week's report takes us to places on the web where one might find some of the oldest and hardet-to-find DVD releases of films that studios don't apparently want us to see.

-Wesley Lovell (October 16, 2007)

October 9

Peter starts this week off in typical fashion, giving us a glimpse of Funny Face, a classic horror collection, D. H. Lawrence adaptation The Virgin and the Gypsy and the television miniseries Little Women.

He then goes on to briefly discuss the career of thespian Angela Lansbury and her Murder, She Wrote guest casting connections.

-Wesley Lovell (October 9, 2007)

October 2

Taking a look back at gross-out comedies, Peter looks at Knocked Up and the films that have acted as signposts to its development. He also takes a look at the new release of Evening, the television series Nip/Tuck and Boston Legal.

Secondarily, he takes a look at various anniversary collections waiting in the wings and gives his thoughts on what he'd like to see released next year.

-Wesley Lovell (October 2, 2007)

September 25

Peter's back in form reviewing the big screen musicals with a few new releases peppered among other films.

-Wesley Lovell (September 25, 2007)

September 18

It's back to the old grindstone as Peter heads back to new releases looking at some horror films releasing to DVD in time for Halloween and an early-year Oscar contender from one of the stars of The Sweet Hereafter.

-Wesley Lovell (September 18, 2007)

September 11

Peter takes another break from Movies on DVD to tackle the Emmy Awards where he waxes philosphical on the show itself and then proceeds to pick his winners from the past season.

As you may notice, this page is no longer home to the report itself. In order to decrease the size of the pages I was uploading every week (and having to sift through to edit), I decided to break down the report monthly so that each month has its own page. This is the culmination of those efforts. You'll find above a link to all the past months' reports and when I post this post every week, I'll give an idea of what Peter's going to discuss and provide a link to the specific page in question as you can see below.

-Wesley Lovell (September 11, 2007)