If not quite at the level of Wallace and Gromit’s were-rabbit adventure, Aardman’s latest stop-motion feature has its own charm, not least in the figure of its leading man, the Pirate Captain.
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If you missed out, time to see what all the fuss was about, as Claire Danes (below) acts her socks off as Carrie Mathison, the intense CIA agent, with bipolar disorder, grimly convinced that a former PoW, Sgt Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), has been “turned” by al-Qaida while under their “care”.
A DVD that aims to help parents of children who stutter is available at Salt Lake County libraries.
Easton’s “Movies at the Mill” has become an annual event in the city. But the festival is more than an excuse to check out a good flick.
Breathing (Verve, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD) The corpses look real in this film about a juvenile offender who goes to work at a morgue. Pared back to its essentials, this well-observed Austrian drama is unusual, powerful and wonderful.
The New York Times critics on “Bachelorette,” “The Inbetweeners” and “Keep the Lights On.”
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 7 Atonement This is director Joe Wright’s adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel about a cruelly interrupted love affair in England, set before and during World War II. High School It’s well shot, but this blunt-as-a-blunt stoner movie – about two kids who, doomed to fail a drug test, scheme to get the whole school baked on high-grade pot – is too cognitively impaired …
A scene from Ira Sachs’s film “Keep the Lights On,†about a couple in a dysfunctional relationship, featuring Thure Lindhardt and Zachary Booth.