Littlerock (Blu-ray)
Recommended The Movie: Littlerock is the story of Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), siblings from Japan, on their way to San Francisco.
May 17, 2012
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Recommended The Movie: Littlerock is the story of Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), siblings from Japan, on their way to San Francisco.
Highly Recommended Directing and writing debuts are rarely as successful as Being John Malkovich (1999), which brought filmmaker Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman into the public eye. Years before, the former cut his teeth on some of the decade’s best music videos , while the latter scribbled behind the scenes of several sketch comedy shows (including Chris Elliott’s underrated Get A …
Recommended Survival horror isn’t exactly a new genre. From John Carpenter’s The Thing to Lord of the Flies and The Descent , these films often focus on unwitting strangers who gradually get picked off by predators, environmental disasters or, in some cases, each other.
Recommended The Movie: Seeing Meryl Streep win the Academy Award for her work in The Iron Lady was nice to witness, but lost in the tidal wave of praise for that performance was the fact that Glenn Close had returned for another round of critical acclaim, earning her sixth Oscar nomination for her work in Albert Nobbs . And while Streep had not won her second Oscar in a while, Close has yet to …
Rent It The movie’s called Underworld: Awakening and all that, so why does it keep putting me to sleep? That’s kind of the weird thing about this fourth — fourth! — installment in the vampires-in-this-corner-werewolves-in-the-other franchise. If you asked me to rattle off a laundry list of all the stuff Read the entire review
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson The crows in Dumbo might have been predicting a major theme for the 1940s when they prescribed a new approach to problem solving: “Cology! You know, Psy – cology!” Psychiatry, psychology and related mental manias were made a factor in thrillers, domestic dramas, even westerns. And as film noir favored characters suffering from angst, alienation and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. An old-fashioned, progressive social-problem film, Mario Monicelli’s energetic, down-to-earth 1963 strike drama The Organizer combines the lyrical beauty of socialist realism with a Neorealist tough-mindedness of sensibility, avoiding the much-maligned slack …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Jimmy Testagros (Ron Eldard, Super 8 , TV’s ER ) is having a bad day, and before he sees the next sunrise, it’s going to get a whole lot worse
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It As part of its 100th Anniversary Collector’s Series of Blu-ray titles, Universal is releasing Buck Privates (1941), Abbott & Costello’s first starring feature, and the movie that their fueled their rocket-like ascent to the top of the box office heap in the early-1940s. Spurred by the peacetime draft in the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Buck Privates is a truly …