La Cienaga: Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
February 15, 2015
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Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It Content: Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author Nicholas Sparks, who is probably best known for the blockbuster love story, The Notebook , The Best of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, a modern day Romeo and Juliet, and two former high school sweethearts who were ripped from one another after an unfortunate twist of fate. The two must confront one another when they …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Most of us should know by now that the Western genre is inspired more from cowboys and Indians fantasies than any realistic depiction of 19 th century life in the actual west. Life in the harsh, unforgiving and isolated parts of the country during that time was more about survival, of the body and of the mind, than anything else
Rent It The Movie: If you're unfamiliar with Fellini's work and would like to begin somewhere, watching Satyricon first would probably be the worst choice. With Satyricon, Fellini's late 60s eccentric and experimental phase reached its peak, creating a fascinatingly yet frustratingly disconnected and incoherent oddity that resembled more of an LSD-induced fever dream sci-fi/fantasy than a …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Steve James crafts another powerful, warts-and-all documentary, this time about longtime Chicago movie critic Roger Ebert. The Hoop Dreams director pulls from Ebert's own memoir, and, fittingly, Martin Scorsese is an executive producer. Deep into production before Ebert's final bout with cancer, Life Itself is a triumphant portrait of an influential journalist and …
Recommended Though a majority of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's films share similar themes and his trademark “slow and steady” visual approach to storytelling, An Autumn Afternoon (1962) has the most in common with his 1949 drama Late Spring . Both feature a widowed patriarch living at home with a fully-grown, unmarried daughter who is prodded into seeking a husband
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I hoped Dracula Untold might be able to rekindle the spark of Universal's classic horror legacy. During the 1930s and 1940s, the studio released films like Dracula and Frankenstein , which are actually frightening.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less A true American success story Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Creepy Jake Gyllenhaal, morally-questionable “heroes” Likes: Thrillers Dislikes: TV news Hates: The current state of journalism The Movie Jake Gyllenhaal is an extremely talented and versatile actor, but to this reviewer, he's never better than when he's making audiences uncomfortable, going back to his …
Recommended Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord is a strange and dream-like character study of two women drifting through Paris with a surreal sense of urgency. They meet by chance (or perhaps fate), and end up accompanying each other on a wild chase through the city, where they are both the chasers and the chased. On one level, their situation seems to involve corruption of the highest order …
Recommended The Movies: Shout! Factory's Scream Factory imprint celebrates the humorous side of the horror movie with this double dose of vampire comedy films presented on a single Blu-ray disc.