Archive for the 'Culture Picks' Category

Culture Picks: DVDs of Elegy, Howard The Duck, more

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Culture Picks are items reviewed by CL critics that you may ,uh, actually want to shop for.

Here’s a selection of DVDs reviewed by film critic Matt Brunson in this week’s View From The Couch. Click the link for full reviews.

• Elegy

 

Movie: ***1/2
Extras: **

$19.49 from Amazon.com

Happy-Go-Lucky

Movie: ***
Extras: **

$19.99 from Amazon.com

• Howard The Duck

Movie: *1/2
Extras: **1/2 

$8.99 from Amazon.com

Culture Picks: Past year’s most celebrated paperbacks

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Culture Picks are items reviewed by CL critics that you may, uh, actually want to shop for.

Here’s a selection of paperback books reviewed by writer John Grooms. Click here for full reviews.

The Translator: A Memoir by Daoud Hari

$10.40 from Amazon.com

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris

$11.56 from Amazon.com

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Culture Picks: DVDs of Brideshead Revisited, Burn After Reading, more

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Culture Picks are items reviewed by CL critics that you may ,uh, actually want to shop for.

Here’s a selection of DVDs reviewed by film critic Matt Brunson in this week’s View From The Couch. Click the link for full reviews.

Brideshead Revisited

Movie: **1/2
Extras: **

$19.99 from Amazon.com

Burn After Reading

Movie: ***
Extras: *1/2

$16.99 from Amazon.com

Death Race

Movie: *1/2
Extras: **

$19.99 from Amazon.com

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