Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman ( Damsels in Distress ) is a magical filmmaker, and a challenging one, too, though in few of the ways that word might usually apply. He presents viewers (or at least, speaking for myself, a viewer like me) with the challenge of stories …
Last week there was a slew of titles from Warner Brothers to arrive on Blu-ray for the very first time. There were several that I hadn’t seen since my days of being a video store clerk
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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 …
Skip It THE FILM: Channing Tatum is in demand these days after stripping for Steven Soderbergh and fighting crime undercover with Jonah Hill. Step Up , released back in 2006, is not up to par with Tatum’s more recent films, and plays like a bland knockoff of the already-middle-of-the-road Save the Last Dance .
Skip It THE MOVIE: “C’mon guys, that was funny.” -Stiffler “Maybe in high school it was funny.” -Jim And there you have the trouble with American Reunion in a two-line nutshell, with this film that has gone to a tremendous amount of trouble to gather all of the players (no matter how minor) from the hit 1999 comedy, and has gone to no trouble at all to give them anything funny or interesting to …
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Chariots of Fire is a film I had seen parodied long before I actually saw it. The film’s ubiquitous title sequence of runners on a beach and its synthesizer-heavy score is known by many unfamiliar with the complete work. The Oscar-winning drama is quite good, too, and tells the story of two runners in 1920s Britain who deal with anti-Semitism and religious conviction …
The DVD pickings – maybe a result of the July Fourth holiday – are thin this week. Rocko’s Modern Life, Season Three, Grade B: The 13 episodes include Rocko, Spunky, Heffer, and Filburt getting involved with a murder investigation involving the Bigheads.