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 …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Harold Lloyd tackles popularity at college Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Classic comedies Likes: Harold Lloyd, good slapstick Dislikes: Most silent films Hates: Big-time college sports, most modern slapstick The Movie The Criterion Collection has long been in the Charlie Chaplin business, but they’ve kept the other members of the silent comedy holy trinity …
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
Skip It Other than maybe the inspirational sports movie, few concepts have been as thoroughly covered by films and television than “the bag full of money.” Not just thrillers, either, but also a great deal of more staid dramas, plenty of comedies, and no doubt at least a handful of horror movies have covered this chestnut — a case could be made that The Box is the sci-fi variant. However, there …
Rent It The Movie: This DVD release from Image Entertainment collects the nine shorts that the director of Fright Night and Child’s Play created as an exclusive web series for FEARnet. Holland is no stranger to anthology horror, having worked on HBO’s Tales From The Crypt series back when it was still on the air and this new project sees him collaborate with a few faces bound to be familiar to …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Based on the novel by Scott Heim, Gregg Araki’s 2004 film Mysterious Skin takes place in rural Kansas where we meet two eight year old boys, Neil McCormack (Chase Ellison) and Brian Lackey (George Webster). When Brian was at a baseball game, he blacked out
DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less Cheever’s short masterpiece becomes a cult classic Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Cult films, psychological dramas, stories of behind-the-scenes chaos Likes: John Cheever, Burt Lancaster Dislikes: Tales of tragedy, WASP-y troubles Hates: Artists being abused by businessmen The Movie The first time I really connected with something I was assigned to read for …
Highly Recommended The Movie: On the heels of creating A Separation , the movie that won Iran’s first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, writer-director Asghar Farhadi has returned with The Past , a film that echoes the mood and tone of A Separation (and his prior work) while shifting the setting from Iran to the outskirts of Paris.