Skip It The Movie: It’s been quite a while since I’ve tackled an independent romantic comedy, but I heard a lot of things, good and bad, about Lola Versus , so why the hell not, right? And on Blu-ray no less. Lola Versus has a peculiar title, because it’s whatever you want it to be.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman is still Whit Stillman after all these years. The godfather of Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach.
Highly Recommended Despite its distinction of being Jean Renoir’s first American film — not to mention one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers from the class of 1941 — Swamp Water has somehow managed to long languish in obscurity. Dismissed by [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Highly Recommended I’d seen the medical thriller Coma (1978) once before, not during its original theatrical run but soon thereafter, and didn’t think very much of it at the time. Probably I was expecting something closer to medical science fiction (which, technically, this also is), that rare sub-genre in which Coma ‘s director, Michael Crichton, got his start as the author of the bestseller …
Rent It The Movie: When I revisited the 2011 World Series earlier in the year, I really enjoyed how the series’ momentum between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals swung back and forth many times through the course of the series, and that Game 6 “was the most tension-filled and perhaps one of the best in recent Series memory.” And to presumably further the case of this, A&E (in …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. One of the movie moments that made the deepest impressions on me as a youngster/budding cinephile was the few minutes in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors where Judah (Martin Landau) revisits a scene from his …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Thanks to The Criterion Collection, summer 2012 is, aptly , Bergman season: In concurrence with their release of the Swedish master’s 1953 turning-point film Summer with Monika , they’re also making available an earlier sea-and-sun youthful-romance reverie, his …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. The inbuilt (and not really disprovable) suspicion on the part of young people in love that some latent tragedy always lurks within their overpowering emotions has long been a perpetually renewable resource for storytellers who can convincingly confirm it, with …
Highly Recommended Certified Copy recreates a world that, down to the most minute detail, is entrancingly, enthrallingly real until it’s not. Such a dramatic statement likely brings to mind the ambitious sort of science fiction that encourages viewers to question everything in front of them.