New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 31 Feature: “ATM” (2012), “Body and Soul” (1947), “Cole Younger and the Black Train” (2012), “Dead Season” (2011), “Detention” (2012), “The Devil’s Feast” (2007), “Falling Overnight” (2012), “Fire With Fire” (1986), “Firstborn” (1984), “Force of Evil” (1948), “4.3.2.1.” Television: Costume Drama Classic Collection (various dates), Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids:
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 27 Footnote Two Talmudic scholars – a frustrated, traditionalist father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and his successful, cutting-edge son (Lior Ashkenazi) – lock horns in writer-director Joseph Cedar’s vivacious, quirky film, a tale of academic maneuvering and mystery that has its little fun with suspense-film conventions.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 24 Untouchable” (2012), “Footnote” (2012), “Girl From the Naked Eye” (2012), “Girls’ Night: Spaghetti Western Collection (various dates) Treasure Island (2012).
Which movies to see this weekend, July 20 International Black Women’s Film Festival: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Ticket holders will have a chance to win limited supplies of movie posters and coconuts.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 20 Casa de Mi Padre Expect maximum Ferrellian oddness in this Spanish-language spoof of Mexican soap operas, which stars Will Ferrell as the stupid, unappreciated son of an old ranchero (Pedro Armendariz Jr.). The Fairy Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel, who wrote, directed and star in this comedy, have developed their own distinct style of performance, which mixes …
Movies opening Friday, July 20 A Burning Hot Summer Love, art and the meaning of life thread through this tale of an Italian actress (Monica Bellucci) and a French painter (Louis Garrel) whose marriage hits a bump. The Dark Knight Rises Oh, Batman (Christian Bale), your shadowy ploy to escape works for a while, but now trouble’s afoot
Movies now playing Vampire Hunter This crazy mashup, based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel, works because the filmmakers aren’t smirky about the gimmick but treat it with an illusion of seriousness: Abe Lincoln, the 16th president, is also an action hero dedicated to the proposition that the only good vampire is a destroyed vampire. The Amazing Spider-Man While you can argue that the last thing …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 17 Feature: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1938), Assassination (1987), The Beat Hotel (2012), Black Butterflies (2011), Burke & Hare: Remastered” (1972), “Casa de Mi Padre” (2012), “Doomsday Prophecy” (2011), “Extraterrestrial” (2011), “The Fairy” (2011), “Fixation” (2011), “4:44: Last Day on Earth (2012), Friends With Kids (2012), Get the Gringo (2012), Goldberg P.I …
DVD review: ‘The Gold Rush’ The histories of literature and classical music contain many examples of artists going back years later and tampering with and diminishing their earlier work. Seventeen years later, wanting to rerelease the film, but finding himself in an era in which silent films had no audience, he eliminated the intertitles, made cuts in the story, changed the ending and added his …