Rent It The Movie: I would like to take the time to thank Jon Stewart for announcing his departure from The Daily Show , off to undertake endeavors that are unknown to me. Not because of his time spent on the show which mind you, was prodigious, but that he managed to give an unknown amount of dum-dums like myself some form of segue and/or introduction to the last notable time Stewart left his …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Steve James crafts another powerful, warts-and-all documentary, this time about longtime Chicago movie critic Roger Ebert. The Hoop Dreams director pulls from Ebert's own memoir, and, fittingly, Martin Scorsese is an executive producer. Deep into production before Ebert's final bout with cancer, Life Itself is a triumphant portrait of an influential journalist and …
Recommended Though a majority of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's films share similar themes and his trademark “slow and steady” visual approach to storytelling, An Autumn Afternoon (1962) has the most in common with his 1949 drama Late Spring . Both feature a widowed patriarch living at home with a fully-grown, unmarried daughter who is prodded into seeking a husband
Recommended The Movie: How To Murder Your Wife is one bizarro movie which tells a very adult story in a childlike manner (at times, it felt like live-action Disney comedy with naughty bits). An item from the MGM/UA back catalog given a polished Blu Ray re-release thanks to the folks at Olive Films, this loopy, underseen 1965 comedy is ripe for a re-appraisal.
Recommended The Film: Unless you're throttling a spaceship towards the gravitational pull of a celestial boy, the methods in which time travel occur in fiction will always seem more magical than scientific, no matter if it's rudimentary wired-up cockpits powered by technobabble or tricked-out Delorians and blue telephone booths. What matters is how the time-travel itself gets used, whether for …
Recommended The Movie: During an interview featured in one of the extras for A Day in the Country, Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner points out how much of an odd choice this wistful and nostalgic ode to the simple pleasures of life was for the director at the time. Renoir shot A Day in the Country, adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant, in the middle of a career and personal life …
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Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I hoped Dracula Untold might be able to rekindle the spark of Universal's classic horror legacy. During the 1930s and 1940s, the studio released films like Dracula and Frankenstein , which are actually frightening.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less A true American success story Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Creepy Jake Gyllenhaal, morally-questionable “heroes” Likes: Thrillers Dislikes: TV news Hates: The current state of journalism The Movie Jake Gyllenhaal is an extremely talented and versatile actor, but to this reviewer, he's never better than when he's making audiences uncomfortable, going back to his …
Recommended For a number of years I lived in and around Hollywood, surrounded by neighbors with big dreams. Many were would-be actors who had moved to Southern California from other parts of the country, convinced they were an audition away from becoming the next Johnny Depp or Julia Roberts, though they always spent a lot more time working on their tan around the swimming pool talking about it …