Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by MK2 and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. The Fairy ( La F e ) is the third film by a trio of French filmmakers — Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy — who are old-fashioned in the best possible sense. The Fairy could accurately be described as a romantic comedy, but as …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Janus Films , not the Blu-ray edition under review. How might one go about transforming the rundown, low-rent districts, shipyards, and other workaday views in a non-tourist-attraction French port city into a visually lovely, sweet setting for a storybook-like political-fable film …
Highly Recommended Twentieth Century-Fox completely reinvented itself during 1953-54. Prior to 1953, Fox was famous for classy, first-rate movies like All About Eve , Broken Arrow , The Gunfighter (all 1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still , The House on Telegraph Hill , The Desert Fox (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Gentleman Prefer Blondes , Titanic , and Pickup on South Street (1953)
Recommended A remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and the Frederick Knott play from which it was derived, A Perfect Murder (1998) cannily reconfigures its plot and characters for a much more cynical, modern day audience. Patrick Smith Kelly’s screenplay deviates from its source quite a bit, but the results aren’t terrible
ELECTRONICS retailer Dick Smith has issued a recall on its 9″ portable DVD player, fearing the internal battery could malfunction and ignite.
Rent It The Movie: When I revisited the 2011 World Series earlier in the year, I really enjoyed how the series’ momentum between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals swung back and forth many times through the course of the series, and that Game 6 “was the most tension-filled and perhaps one of the best in recent Series memory.” And to presumably further the case of this, A&E (in …
Recommended Oops. Every nuclear power from one end of the globe to the other had finally agreed to disarm, and they even cooked up an oversized oven to dispose of all those pesky warheads once and for all
Highly Recommended The Movie: Long before Martin Scorsese would become for lack of a better phrase, Martin Scorsese was hungrily trying to get his personal film Mean Streets some big studio support and distribution, particularly in light of friend Francis Ford Coppola’s success with The Godfather . However Scorsese felt that his was a film closer and truer to his experiences growing up. But not …
Highly Recommended Made during a particularly bleak period for Hammer Films, Twins of Evil (1972) is a pleasant surprise. While still exhibiting the same desperate components of the company’s other horror films of the period – gratuitous nudity, an obviously low budget, and feeble attempts to create a new franchise/horror star – its screenplay is much more intriguing than most early-’70s Hammers …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. In his debut film, 1990’s Metropolitan , it was magical the way writer/director Whit Stillman unexpectedly rendered so captivating and charming the humorous, touching postgraduate romantic peccadilloes of young, ultra …