DVD releases for the week of May 30
The “Mad Max” trilogy gets a re-release on Blu-ray and an unusual rom-com mark this week’s best bets
June 4, 2013
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The “Mad Max” trilogy gets a re-release on Blu-ray and an unusual rom-com mark this week’s best bets
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 …
The Sydney Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday for one-and-a-half weeks of screenings and film-related talks and events. During the festival, plenty of buzzed-about movies will have their Australian premieres (even if they’re not in competition), and there are heaps from the film festival circuit we’re excited to finally see, after reading and hearing so much about them. The range on offer is …
Highly Recommended THE FILM “This place isn’t haunted,” says a young man, Jo o (Gustavo John), to a potential condo buyer at one point in Brazilian writer/director Kleber Mendon a Filho’s vital, indelible debut feature-length picture, Neighboring Sounds . Jo o is putting his client’s mind at ease because of a suicide she’s heard tell of in this high-rise residential building , owned by Jo o’s …
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
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by director Hal Hartley’s Possible Films website, not the current Blu-ray edition under review. Of all that the revival/re-release DVD/Blu-ray imprint Olive Films has given cinephiles to be ecstatically grateful for, its systematic, ongoing reissue, in carefully preserved and cleaned-up new editions, of the works …
Researchers find alcohol brand appearances have increased in popular movies rated PG-13 and below, which raises concern over the effect on children
Rent It The Film: The Barretts are in the middle of a rough patch: while Lacy (Keri Russell) struggles to sell houses around their suburban neighborhood, namely fixer-upper opportunities, her unemployed husband, Daniel (Josh Hamilton), hunts for a coveted architecture position at a time when the pickings are slim. As lack-of-payment notices keep rolling in and their financial struggles hamper …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The tough decision between a meal and a relationship Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Creative genre films Likes: Zombie stories, Jonathan Levine Dislikes: Movies lacking in subtlety Hates: The Twilight franchise, formula movie-making The Movie Warm Bodies is as pandering as a film concept can get while still being original and entertaining. Take the fantasy love …
Recommended Pals of the Saddle (1938), the first of John Wayne’s eight “Three Mesquiteers” movies for Republic Pictures, B-Westerns he made during 1938-39, also happens to be the last released by Olive Films. Olive’s Blu-ray releases have consistently been outstanding, with these lowly little movies, pictures heretofore available only via public domain labels using horrifically bad video …