Recommended The Movie: For all of the commercials that shill fizzy golden water most Sundays in the fall for football, the overall message, it would appear that the only film that has effectively explored a grown man’s fandom for a sports team has been Fever Pitch . Based on the work of a writer whose name is familiar to many, it went from a book to a movie to an American remake that explored …
Skip It Jack (John Cusack) has one task to complete on his newest assignment: deliver a bag.
(Sidney Lumet, John Guillermin, Guy Hamilton, 1974-82; StudioCanal, PG) The production partnership of John Brabourne (the Eton-educated seventh Baron Brabourne) and Richard B Goodwin (who started out as a teenage tea boy with the Rank Organisation) is one of the most interesting in the British cinema. Its highlights include David Lean’s A Passage to India and the two-part Little Dorrit , but its …
“It’s a sad indictment of The Fifth Estate that it proves most convincing when its central figure breaks the fourth wall” The Fifth Estate EOne, Blu-ray & DVD Movies about technology are always at least five years out of date, so it’s only fitting that it’s taken that long for The Fifth Estate – Bill Condon’s occasionally diverting WikiLeaks romp, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as comedian Bill …
And here’s the craziest part: It still makes a ton of money. Welcome to the strange world of Decluttr. Someone once gave me a CD of heavy metal Hanukkah songs called Gods of Fire .
Skip It The Film: Several optimistic possibilities rush through one’s mind while watching the trailer for 47 Ronin , Carl Rinsch’s costly feature-length debut. Could it be visually interesting in the vein of Asia’s native martial-arts fantasies? Or, will it offer enough swordsmanship and wizardry within it quasi-historical Japanese context to become something of a guilty pleasure
Recommended Largely forgotten in the decades following its 1974 release, Martin Ritt’s Conrack is one of the better “inspiring teacher” movies in a sub-genre full of entries. It certainly wasn’t the first of its kind: earlier productions like Goodbye Mr
This week’s reviews of what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD by Matt Brunson (View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD.) DELIVERY MAN (2013).… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
It’s hard to believe the Warner Archive Collection launched five years ago this month. The one-time torrent of classic-era films being released on DVD by the major Hollywood studios, which…
Rent It The Movie: Chinese Zodiac (released in its homeland as CZ12 ), a 2012 feature directed by, co-written by and starring the great Jackie Chan, was a highly anticipated picture among the action star’s legions of fans because it was touted as a follow up of sorts to the two popular Armor Of God films. The movie begins with a fantastic sequence in which a man named Hawk (Chan) escapes from a …