Highly Recommended The Movie: On the heels of creating A Separation , the movie that won Iran’s first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, writer-director Asghar Farhadi has returned with The Past , a film that echoes the mood and tone of A Separation (and his prior work) while shifting the setting from Iran to the outskirts of Paris.
Highly Recommended While troops on the front lines wait for D-Day, the high command of the American Navy is serviced by the wait staff in fancy London hotels. Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner) is a “dog robber”, a man who specializes in providing all the luxuries of home: food, clothes, booze, women — and he’s very good at what he does. Visitors excitedly agree his hotel room …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Nothing is quite so exciting a movie experience as the claustrophobic thriller. Director Jeremy Lovering provides that closed in feeling inside of a compact car, roaming lost around the isolated byways of Ireland, in his tightly wound film In Fear .
Recommended Filmed in North Braddock, Pennsylvania (just outside of Pittsburgh) Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace (2013) examines a handful of characters in a town crippled by a failing economy, their own bad choices and/or quite a bit of bad luck. Our central characters are Russell (Christian Bale) and Rodney Baze (Casey Affleck), two brothers who have taken decidedly different paths in life …
DVD Talk Collector Series Reviewed by Glenn Erickson How does one write a critical review of a movie that plays as nothing less than perfect? It was a shock when, after receiving ten Academy Award nominations, David O.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Joe Massot (who would later make The Song Remains The Same ) in 1968, Wonderwall is noteworthy for being the first movie that George Harrison did the music for. The storyline, such as it is, follows a strange fifty-something man named Professor Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) who lives all alone in his apartment
Highly Recommended The Movie: Takashi Kitano’s Beyond Outrage (a follow up to his 2010 Yakuza picture Outrage ) picks up where the first movie left off, albeit a few years later. Kato (Tomokazu Miura), with some help from his right hand man Ishihara (Ryo Kase), has moved to the top of the ladder within the Sanno-kai yakuza clan and has proven a strong leader.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. To create a biographical film worthy of Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders and social advocates of our time, is no easy task, and director Justin Chadwick falls somewhat short with his well-meaning but not terribly memorable Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom . Anchored by strong performances from Idris Elba …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Disney continues their non-Pixar hot streak Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animated movies, Bobby Lopez Likes: Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell Dislikes: Chick flicks, simplistic comedy Hates: Weak bonus content The Movie I may have a slight bias against Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Recommended The Movie: Jean-Claude Van Damme should play the villain more often.