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2007 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Light Dining

  published July 25, 2007

  Sadly, No Reservations is not the big-screen adaptation of Anthony Bourdain's snack-gulping, risk-taking Travel Channel show;... More >>

• Chow Time Again

  published July 25, 2007

  Hard Boiled: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition (Weinstein) The Criterion version of John Woo's masterpiece, about two cops (the... More >>

• Cold War Reheated

  published July 18, 2007

  Red Dawn: Collector's Edition (MGM) John Milius' 1984 war pic was a mighty bonkers release even back then; not since the... More >>

• You're Gonna Miss Me

  published July 11, 2007

  (Palm) A hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival two years ago, Keven McAlester's doc about the Papa of Psychedelia, Roky... More >>

• When He Was Small

  published July 4, 2007

  Chancer: Series 1 (Acorn) Available solely in the U.K. for years, this is a small-time release featuring a modestly... More >>

• Back in the Fight

  published June 27, 2007

  It takes Bruce Willis awhile to get warmed up. He's always just a bit below room temperature — a cool brother, dig, dating back to his... More >>

• Evan Can Wait

  published June 20, 2007

  Evan Almighty, the follow-up to Bruce Almighty, is the work of an angry God. At 89 minutes that last a lifetime, it's a... More >>

• Beat the Crowd

  published June 13, 2007

  Glastonbury (THINKFilm) Only a Julien Temple concert doc would get the R rating -- for nudity (male, mostly, and not... More >>

• Sagebrush & Spaghetti

  published June 6, 2007

  The Sergio Leone Anthology (MGM) Sergio Leone made westerns like Wagner made ditties. This essential boxed set -- four films... More >>

• It's a...Hit!

  published May 30, 2007

  A few friends of mine who've adored Judd Apatow's Knocked Up at early screenings have nonetheless voiced a shared complaint: There's... More >>

• Brooks Bothers

  published May 30, 2007

  Mr. Brooks—in which Kevin Costner plays a respectable Seattle businessman who kills for thrills, thanks to the goading of an imaginary... More >>

• Cannibal Corpse

  published May 30, 2007

  Hannibal Rising (Weinstein) Pointless beyond belief, Hannibal Rising serves more as a cautionary tale than horror story.... More >>

• Busker Love

  published May 23, 2007

  Once, written and directed by John Carney, is a deceptively simple movie — a narrative strung together by pop songs, but without the... More >>

• Good Clean Smut

  published May 23, 2007

  Porky's: The Ultimate Collection (Fox) When writer-director Bob Clark was killed by a drunk driver in April, the obits... More >>

• More Shriek Than Shrek

  published May 16, 2007

  Pan's Labyrinth (New Line) Guillermo Del Toro has made a career of mixing slam-bang special effects (Hellboy,... More >>

• Spider Bites

  published May 2, 2007

  What is it with the third installments in superhero film franchises? For whatever reason — and, oh, let's just call it the lack of fresh... More >>

• Crisis in Suburbia

  published May 2, 2007

  Little Children (New Line) In the eyes of Hollywood, our American suburbs are so filled with perversion and treachery... More >>

• Nature's Horror Films

  published April 25, 2007

  Planet Earth Roll over, Marlin Perkins, and tell Jacques Cousteau the news: There's never been another nature series like this. You will... More >>

• Keeping the Meter Running

  published April 25, 2007

  Taxi Driver: Collector's Edition (Sony) "Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads: Here is a man who would not take it anymore."... More >>

• Arresting Development

  published April 18, 2007

  For all the huzzahs deservedly heaped upon 2004's Shaun of the Dead, in which it took a good long while to discern the living from the... More >>

• What Garry Didn't Know

  published April 18, 2007

  Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show (Sony) The greatest boxed set ever -- not so much for the made-up... More >>

• With Hitchcock in its rear window, a bland voyeur thriller does its best not to perturb(ia).

  published April 11, 2007

  Writers Christopher Landon and Carl Ellsworth receive sole credit for the movie Disturbia, which is surprising, as the film clearly is... More >>

• Her One Little Secret

  published April 11, 2007

  Sleeping Dogs Lie (First Look) Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait takes a subversive concept (honesty is overrated) and... More >>

• The Big Valley

  published April 4, 2007

  Twin Peaks: The Second Season (Paramount) So, here it is: perhaps the most infamous shark-jumping in TV history. The... More >>

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in a character-driven theft thriller.

  published March 28, 2007

  At various times over the past decade, David Fincher, Sam Mendes and Michael Mann were attached to direct Scott Frank's screenplay for The... More >>