Highly Recommended The Movie: Â At an age when most actors had long since stopped takingroles (or more likely, the phone had stopped ringing) Cary Grant wasstill making superbfilms. Â After making the excellentthriller Charade , Grant went to workon the WWII light comedy, Father Goose ,his second to last movie
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Recommended The Movie: The 1933 romantic comedy Perfect Understanding , newly released on Blu Ray by the Cohen Film Collection, might best be described as a vanity project. Gloria Swanson performed double duty as actress and producer with this luxurious British production, resulting in an enjoyable yet quirky experiment. Swanson had a lot riding on Perfect Understanding .
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection , not the current Blu-ray edition under review. If one were forced (against one’s will, it would have to be) to pick and choose and split hairs among the near-uniformly excellent, inspired, and distinctive-visioned films of English writer-director Mike …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Best known because it was banned by the BBC before it was supposed to be aired in 1977, Alan Clarke’s Scum holds up well despite all the hype around this project, one which actually started life as a made for TV movie. In the lead, Ray Winstone plays Carlin, a thug imprisoned for his wrongdoings on the outside. He’s recently been transferred to Borstel, a youth …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Dwayne Johnson’s tough-guy swagger and imposing physical presence do not faze the agents of the international drug cartel to which Johnson’s construction-company owner John Matthews finds himself suddenly tied. Johnson plays against type as a desperate suburban father who agrees to help the Feds make a high …
Highly Recommended The Film: Hayao Miyazaki didn’t have a grand future in mind when he originally created Totoro, one of plush toys, hash-tags , and enduring cameo appearances . He didn’t even really have a movie in his sights when he began the initial creative process: My Neighbor Totoro started out as a children’s book, a straightforward departure for the filmmaker after Nausicaa of the Valley …
Recommended While I’ve always associated John Cusack mainly with comedies, including the absolutely hilarious Better Off Dead , he’s done well in many more serious roles as well although somehow not many of them have stuck with me. In The Numbers Station , he plays Emerson Kent, a CIA black ops agent who has been increasingly bothered with issues of the morality of his job
Skip It The Movie: Tsutomu Hanabusa resurrects the Ring franchise with this latest entry in the ongoing saga of tortured ghost Sadako.
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson In 1984 Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus kicked their production company Cannon Films upstairs into the big leagues, inking showy deals at Cannes. No more Breakin’ and Electric Boogaloo ; the high pressure team of Mo and Yo initiated projects with stars like Sally Fields and Julie Andrews, imported Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky and even took on a …