http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:06:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-10/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-10/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:47:31 +0000 Caroline Burke http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10214 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-10/feed/ 0 A critical look at this week's new releases http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/26/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-9/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/26/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-9/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:54:33 +0000 Caroline Burke http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9822 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/26/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-9/feed/ 0 Take remote control of Thanksgiving http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/19/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-8/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/19/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-8/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:29:44 +0000 Caroline Burke http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9455 Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection, Hellboy II: The Golden Army and more.]]> http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/19/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-8/feed/ 0 Warm up the DVD player for Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection, Hellboy II: The Golden Army and more. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/15/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-7/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/15/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-7/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:49:25 +0000 Debbie Michaud http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=7402 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/15/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-7/feed/ 0 This week CL Charlotte’s Matt Brunson discusses the DVD releases of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Strangers and more. INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008). Let’s try to put this in perspective, shall we? On the Scale of Cinematic Achievements, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-6/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-6/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:04:37 +0000 Helen Herbst http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6749 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-6/feed/ 0 A critical look at this week's new releases http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/24/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-5/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/24/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-5/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:16:22 +0000 Helen Herbst http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6372 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/24/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-5/feed/ 0 This week CL Charlotte’s Matt Brunson discusses the DVD releases of Cool Hand Luke, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Leatherheads and more. COOL HAND LUKE (1967). In a career filled with iconic anti-heroes – including what I deem the “4-H Club” from the 1960s (Hud, Harper, Hombre and The Hustler) – Lucas Jackson just might be the most [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/17/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-4/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/17/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-4/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:55:42 +0000 Helen Herbst http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/17/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-4/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/17/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-4/feed/ 0 This week CL Charlotte film critic Matt Brunson takes a look at 88 Minutes, An American in Paris and more, including that dizzying color-fest Speed Racer. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) / GIGI (1958). The film industry has produced a substantial number of truly transcendent musical masterpieces – Singin’ in the Rain, Top Hat and A [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/10/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-3/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/10/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-3/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:26:58 +0000 Helen Herbst http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/10/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-3/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/10/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-3/feed/ 0 This week, CL Charlotte film critic Matt Brunson reviews the Tina Fey comedy (mom-edy, perhaps?) Baby Mama, director Vadim Perelman’s The Life Before Her Eyes, Snow Angels and Young@Heart — all on DVD for the first time — as well as the second collection of the Fox Horror Classics. BABY MAMA (2008). With Will Ferrell, Adam [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-2/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-2/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:07:35 +0000 Helen Herbst http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-2/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/03/view-from-the-couch-dvd-reviews-2/feed/ 0 This week, CL Charlotte film critic Matt Brunson reviews the special edition release of the Coen brothers’ 1998 The Big Lebowski, as well as the French film Brotherhood of the Wolf, the two-disc edition of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas and more. THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998). Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Big Lebowski may be sloppy, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/view-from-the-couch-21-and-higher/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/view-from-the-couch-21-and-higher/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:02:39 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/view-from-the-couch-21-and-higher/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/view-from-the-couch-21-and-higher/feed/ 0 Here’s this week’s View from the Couch DVD-review column by Creative Loafing/Charlotte’s own Matt Brunson, who reviews releases of 21, In Bruges (which Curt Holman reviewed for us) and more. Unfortunately, Matt didn’t touch on the Criterion Collection’s spiffed-up release of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 classic, Vampyr. (Don’t worry; I’m squirreling away ghoulish-movie DVD reviews [...]