New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 28 Arbitrage In writer-director Nicholas Jarecki’s smooth, snooze-inducing anti-thriller – about a high-finance magnate whose cushy life is threatened – an exceedingly dapper Richard Gere appears in nice suits and handsome close-ups that serve no purpose other than to remind us how exceedingly dapper Richard Gere looks in nice suits and handsome close-ups. Killer Joe …
Which movies to see in the week ahead While the movie loses steam in the last 45 minutes, strong performances by Naomi Watts and Tom Holland (as her son) keep it worth watching.
DVD review: ‘Letters From an Unknown Woman’ Watching Jourdan play a romantic obsession in this heartbreaking melodrama, you realize there is nobody like him or his compatriots in today’s Hollywood. Jourdan plays a famous concert pianist in early 20th century Vienna who catches a glimpse of a pretty adolescent girl (Joan Fontaine) living in his building. German director Max Ophuls had a poetic …
Our project to declare what is the best of the best when it comes to science fiction and fantasy has moved to Defcon 3. We’ve started voting on some of our nine categories (see below) and that voting is still going on.
Arrow Video have set a January 14th release date for the UK DVD debut of Ferdinando Baldi’s ‘Django, Prepare A Coffin’
Movies opening this week, Dec. 21 Enter a cinematic sphere where a young couple search for each other through mystical worlds. Citadel Tommy and his pregnant wife’s joy shrivels into despair when she’s savagely attacked by a gang of hooded kids.
Our kooky, hair-splitting, possible skull-cracking, debate-inducing, week-long project of asking people to nominate all things best in science fiction and fantasy continues.
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, from older ones like It’s a Wonderful Life to newer ones like A Christmas Story , to ones that get remade over and over (and over) again like A Christmas Carol . Whether or not you like such movies, you must admit that it does get a bit repetitive watching the same stories over and over again every year, with the possible exception of the …
And thus 2012 ends, and thus studios chum the waters with Oscar-bait. Some of the recent releases have been great ( Zero Dark Thirty ), some weird ( Holy Motors ), some are for your parents ( Lincoln ), and some are just plain sadistic ( Les Misérables ). But while 2012’s been full of solid movies— The Master , Argo , Magic Mike , Looper —there are always too many that are forgotten too quickly.