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.
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 …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended The Movies: First things first – those of you who already own the recent director’s cut Blu-ray release of Mimic ? The first disc in this two disc set which compiles the three films in the series is identical to that release outside of the cover art
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The word “infrastructure” most often hits our ears when tossed off by one politician or another, but to what extent do we grasp what our cities’, states’, or nation’s infrastructure actually is — what it looks like, how it came to be, how …