Recommended The Movie: “A woman's laugh is very often a mating call.” – Stanley Krown (William Holden) in Forever Female . Paramount's 1953 production Forever Female is an enjoyable spin on themes already explored in All About Eve
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Barbara Stanwyck is good in everything she's in, but alas, that doesn't mean everything she's in is good
Rent It Many eighteen-year-olds are unhappy with their lives, but Nate Norman's (Jonathan Daniel Brown) unhappiness extends to the rest of his family: his mother (Amanda Tapping) waitresses and barely makes enough ends meet for a cramped home where Nate and his younger brother Phillip (Mark Hills) squeeze in among clutter and junk. Nate himself delivers pizzas, which seems like a dead end until …
Recommended The Movie: “You dirty, lousy Mick! You got no rules!” Of course not. When you're a tough, old supercop who is a little Dirty Harry , a little Bullitt , and all John Wayne, you make your own rules. That's the conceit, at least, of the 1975 fish-out-of-water cop thriller Brannigan .
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. My goodness, but how wonderful is Judy Holliday? If we were to do some serious consideration of cinema's best comedic performance by a woman, her turn as Billie Dawn in George Cukor's 1950 adaptation of Born Yesterday would be hard to beat …
Recommended Ping Pong Summer Blu-ray Review Nostalgia can be a lot of fun. Ping Pong Summer isthe latest in a number of films to remember this idea and to carry italongit's independently minded (and produced) journey. This film is a lovesong tothe joy of the 80's and the good times that the filmmaker experiencedwithclassic 80's cinema and music
Skip It Le Week-end Blu-ray Review Le Week-end was one of the most criticallyacclaimedfilms of the year but this doesn't mean it's necessarily one of the best :audiences responded unevenly and the film flopped at the box-officewith apaltry 2 million gross (a low number for a reasonably high profileproductionfeaturing Oscar loved actors and filmmakers). The film reunitesdirector RogerMichell …
Recommended The Film: Going into Noah with the expectation that Darren Aronofsky's going to color within the lines of gospel would be a mistake, though it's understandable why some might expect him to do so. The name Noah in itself and the premise lying underneath his narrative are, after all, modeled from a brief, fantastical story told in the book of Genesis (and also appears in other religion …
Rent It It sounds as if his bones are shattering as consciousness groggily regains its hold.
Highly Recommended Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and photographer Edward Burtynsky have enjoyed successful, productive careers both separately and as a team, using their combined visual talents to call attention to the world around us. Their first film collaboration was Manufactured Landscapes (2006), a showcase of Burty… Read the entire review