Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Jason Bateman succeeds in front of and behind the camera Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Dark comedies, Kathryn Hahn Likes: Jason Bateman, Allison Janney Dislikes: Spelling bee pressure Hates: Crappy parents The Movie A full-grown man enters an eighth-grade spelling bee, and proceeds to systematically decimate his kiddie competitors with evil glee, before …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray.
Recommended Attack on Titan – Set 1 Blu-ray Review There’s a certain little series known as Attackon Titan .You may have heard of it. It’s the most discussed anime seriescurrently aroundwith a huge audience and a great deal of fervor around the entireglobe.Funimation has recently acquired this series: the biggest anime hit oftheyear. Astonishing viewers worldwide, Attack on Titan is …
Recommended The Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-ray Review The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-dramafromwriter/director Wes Anderson ( Rushmore , The Life AquaticWith SteveZissou ). It is Anderson’s 8th feature film and is a British/Germanco-production. The story takes place within and around the hotel andoccurswithin a fictional place known as the Republic of Zubrowka (itself ametaphorical state …
Rent It One of those “What were they thinking?” films from the early 1970s, The Baby (1973) is a real oddball horror-thriller similar but much inferior to Jack Hill’s darkly comic cult film Spider Baby (filmed in 1964 but unreleased until 1968), so much so one wonders if Baby writer and co-producer Abe Polsky had seen it. Produced on a modest but adequate budget, The Baby is pretty mild with …