Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. My goodness, but how wonderful is Judy Holliday? If we were to do some serious consideration of cinema's best comedic performance by a woman, her turn as Billie Dawn in George Cukor's 1950 adaptation of Born Yesterday would be hard to beat …
Skip It Le Week-end Blu-ray Review Le Week-end was one of the most criticallyacclaimedfilms of the year but this doesn't mean it's necessarily one of the best :audiences responded unevenly and the film flopped at the box-officewith apaltry 2 million gross (a low number for a reasonably high profileproductionfeaturing Oscar loved actors and filmmakers). The film reunitesdirector RogerMichell …
Rent It It sounds as if his bones are shattering as consciousness groggily regains its hold.
Highly Recommended Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and photographer Edward Burtynsky have enjoyed successful, productive careers both separately and as a team, using their combined visual talents to call attention to the world around us. Their first film collaboration was Manufactured Landscapes (2006), a showcase of Burty… Read the entire review
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 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 Movie: Directed by Joel Schumacher in 1990, Flatliners follows five students enrolled in medical school: Nelson (Keifer Sutherland), Doctor Rachel McMannus (Julia Roberts), David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), Doctor Joe Hurley (William Baldwin), and Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt). They're involved in some unorthodox experiments spearheaded by Nelson in which they will work together to find …
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.
Highly Recommended Like most Americans, my first exposure to Erik Skjoldbjerg's Insomnia (1997) was via Criterion's 1999 DVD ; through no small coincidence, it was around the time Christopher Nolan's 2002 remake hit theaters (but, for the life of me, I can't remember which one I actually saw first). Either way, I'm glad that both exist and, unlike the wide difference in quality between most …
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