Recommended Everyone's done plenty of stupid things despite the fear of being caught, but Michel (Martin LaSalle) just happens to do such things for a living. He's a pickpocket by trade; first by himself, then—after his arrest and subsequent release, due to lack of evidence—with a pair of highly skilled thieves (Henri Kassagi and Pierre Etaix). Aside from the thrill of his dangerous …
Highly Recommended It's hardly just another movie. Parts like the leading role of Audra come around once in a lifetime, and that's if you're lucky. Samantha Sherwood (Samantha Eggar) fought like hell to get her hands on the film rights to the legendary play, and she's willing to go to whatever extreme lengths are necessary to see it done justice
Recommended The Movie: “A woman's laugh is very often a mating call.” – Stanley Krown (William Holden) in Forever Female . Paramount's 1953 production Forever Female is an enjoyable spin on themes already explored in All About Eve
Recommended Marty (1955) was the little film that could, an almost-art film reportedly produced as a tax write-off that ended up winning four major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay) while earning rentals ten times its modest ($350,000) cost.
Rent It Many eighteen-year-olds are unhappy with their lives, but Nate Norman's (Jonathan Daniel Brown) unhappiness extends to the rest of his family: his mother (Amanda Tapping) waitresses and barely makes enough ends meet for a cramped home where Nate and his younger brother Phillip (Mark Hills) squeeze in among clutter and junk. Nate himself delivers pizzas, which seems like a dead end until …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. My goodness, but how wonderful is Judy Holliday? If we were to do some serious consideration of cinema's best comedic performance by a woman, her turn as Billie Dawn in George Cukor's 1950 adaptation of Born Yesterday would be hard to beat …
Skip It Le Week-end Blu-ray Review Le Week-end was one of the most criticallyacclaimedfilms of the year but this doesn't mean it's necessarily one of the best :audiences responded unevenly and the film flopped at the box-officewith apaltry 2 million gross (a low number for a reasonably high profileproductionfeaturing Oscar loved actors and filmmakers). The film reunitesdirector RogerMichell …
Recommended The Film: Going into Noah with the expectation that Darren Aronofsky's going to color within the lines of gospel would be a mistake, though it's understandable why some might expect him to do so. The name Noah in itself and the premise lying underneath his narrative are, after all, modeled from a brief, fantastical story told in the book of Genesis (and also appears in other religion …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The western framed as a chase picture. A cowboy drama about racial politics.
Rent It The Film: The cast brought together for Transcendence plays like reunion of sorts for the supporting players in Christopher Nolan's oeuvre — Rebecca Hall! Morgan Freeman! Cilian Murphy! — gathering together with cinematographer from Memento and Inception , Wally Pfister, for his grand directorial debut. To say that he's picked a subject for his unveiling that's both ambitious and …