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 …
Rent It It sounds as if his bones are shattering as consciousness groggily regains its hold.
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.
Recommended I don't review a lot of (relatively) new movies, but was drawn to Devil's Knot (2013) because its director is Atom Egoyan, the Canadian filmmaker behind such excellent and unique films as Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and Ararat (2002). Devil's Knot , adapted from Mara Leveritt's 2002 book and based on the West Memphis Three murder investigation and subsequent trial …
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 …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray. I spent yesterday watching a couple of Woody Allen movies
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer), a fairly prolific writer and director of Spaghetti Westerns, sword and sandal pictures and action movies in the sixties and seventies, Sabata stars steely eyed Lee Van Cleef as a bounty hunter who saunters into Daugherty City right around the time that a cool one hundred grand is stolen from the local bank. The …
Recommended The Movies: I love early cinema for a lot of reasons: you can see filmmakerscreating the language of film as time goes on, the movies themselvescan be magnificent, and the creativity is often astounding, just toname a few. One of the main things that draws me to the early days offilm is that it's a window on the past.
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. I wasn't actually familiar with the meaning of “separate tables” before watching this movie. As it turns out, it refers to a perk of a live-in hotel, where the dining room boasts individual tables where guests can eat on their own rather …