Skip It THE FILM: Screenshots were taken from the included DVD edition and do not represent the quality of the Blu-ray. The first Rio is a colorful, lightweight and not altogether joyless string of pop culture references and celebrity voice talent
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The western framed as a chase picture. A cowboy drama about racial politics.
Recommended I don't review a lot of (relatively) new movies, but was drawn to Devil's Knot (2013) because its director is Atom Egoyan, the Canadian filmmaker behind such excellent and unique films as Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and Ararat (2002). Devil's Knot , adapted from Mara Leveritt's 2002 book and based on the West Memphis Three murder investigation and subsequent trial …
Rent It The Film: The cast brought together for Transcendence plays like reunion of sorts for the supporting players in Christopher Nolan's oeuvre — Rebecca Hall! Morgan Freeman! Cilian Murphy! — gathering together with cinematographer from Memento and Inception , Wally Pfister, for his grand directorial debut. To say that he's picked a subject for his unveiling that's both ambitious and …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Widely considered to be the movie that put Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg on the map in the United States, 1981's Scanners begins with a scene where a man, seemingly homeless, sits in a food court.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray. I spent yesterday watching a couple of Woody Allen movies
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer), a fairly prolific writer and director of Spaghetti Westerns, sword and sandal pictures and action movies in the sixties and seventies, Sabata stars steely eyed Lee Van Cleef as a bounty hunter who saunters into Daugherty City right around the time that a cool one hundred grand is stolen from the local bank. The …
Recommended The Movies: I love early cinema for a lot of reasons: you can see filmmakerscreating the language of film as time goes on, the movies themselvescan be magnificent, and the creativity is often astounding, just toname a few. One of the main things that draws me to the early days offilm is that it's a window on the past.
Rent It The Film: On the surface, Duel At Diablo looks like the kind of movie that subconsciously inspired Blazing Saddles , what with its African American costar playing against a popular Caucasian one, set in the West and battling seemingly insurmountable odds.
Recommended THE FILM: I am very much over found-footage horror films.