title: Casanova function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Touchstone (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) MPAA rating: Rated R starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin, Omid Djalili, Charlie Cox, Natalie Dormer, Helen McCrory, Tim McInnerny DVD release year: 2006 film release year: 2005 director: Lasse Hallström running time: 108 minutes (DVD label says 111 minutes) film rating: Four stars sound/picture rating: Four stars reviewed by: Bill Warren Giacomo Casanova was an adventurer, libertine, magician and traveler who, late in life, wrote his multi-volume memoirs. Movies have been feasting on them as long as there have been movies. Fellini made “Fellini’s Casanova” with Donald Sutherland as the rake of the Renaissance, but it was surprisingly stodgy for Fellini. The same certainly can’t be said for Lasse Hallström’s lively, funny—and underestimated—“Casanova” of 2005.

title: ÆON FLUX WIDESCREEN SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Paramount Home Entertainment MPAA rating: PG-13 starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, Frances McDormand film release year: 2005 DVD release year: 2006 film rating: Three Stars sound/picture rating: Four Stars reviewed by: Mel Odom “Æon Flux” began life in 1991 as an experimental animated series launched by MTV’s Liquid Dreams. Created by Korean American animator David Chung, the show kept coming back again and again, reaching cult status after three seasons that were basically unconnected. In fact, in the first season Aeon got killed in each episode. Fans rejoiced and dreaded the movie version of their heroine. Hewing to its science fiction roots, “Æon Flux” is set in Bregna, the last city left alive on earth after a terrible disease killed ninety-nine percent of the world’s population. Walls keep nature at bay. Bregna is the world’s most perfect city, providing everything its citizens want or need. Unfortunately, there is a ...

title: Shopgirl function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Touchstone Home Entertainment MPAA rating: PG starring: Claire Danes, Steve Martin, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson, Sam Bottoms, Frances Conroy theatrical release: 2005 DVD release: 2006 film rating: Four Stars sound/picture rating: Four Stars reviewed by: Bill Warren This warm, sensitive and funny movie didn’t burn up the boxoffice, though it deserved to; this may explain why the DVD has so few extras. Technically, the DVD is fine, with the careful color palette of director Anand Tucker, cinematographer Peter Suschitzky and production designer William Arnold well-rendered. The color scheme is discussed in the expert “making of” documentary on the disc, and in Tucker’s intelligent, interesting commentary track.

title: Shadows in the Sun (Aka: The Shadow Dancer) function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close();  studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment MPAA rating: TV14 appearing: Harvey Keitel, Joshua Jackson, Claire Forlani, Armando Pucci, Giancarlo Giannini, Valeria Cavalli, John Rhys-Davies TV release year: 2005 DVD release year: 2006 director: Brad Mirman film rating: Two and a half stars sound/picture rating: Two stars reviewed by: Darren Gross Slick young literary editor, Jeremy (Jackson) is given the seemingly impossible task of convincing retired literary giant Weldon Parish (Keitel) to write another novel. Parish hasn’t written in twenty years and lives a reclusive life with his daughters in the beautiful Tuscan countryside. Sent to track down Parish by his boss Mr. Benton (Rhys-Davies), Jeremy finds Parish an ornery, protective sort with a prankish sense of humor. Initially incurring Parish’s ire with his slick, businessman’s approach, Jeremy begins a long process to win Parish’s trust, and in the result finds in him an encouraging mentor on life as well as writing. As Jeremy begins to unlock his own repressed writer’s ...

title: Out Of Sight function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Universal Home Video MPAA rating: R starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Albert Brooks, Steve Zahn, Nancy Allen. Unbilled: Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson release year: 1998 film rating: Four and a half stars reviewed by: Bill Warren While not a hit, this movie pleased virtually everyone who saw it in theaters, and it's only going to win more followers on video -- particularly in this terrific DVD. There are plenty of extras, which is easy enough to do, if you have the footage, but here they're particularly well organized, with interesting deleted scenes, intelligent commentary by director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Frank, and well-chosen clips from the "electronic press kit" created to publicize the film, including some words from Elmore Leonard, author of the original novel.