July 29, 2012
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Which movies to see this weekend, July 27 While you can argue that the last thing the world needs is another reboot of a comic-book movie, the film gets off to a good start, with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in the lead roles. Benh Zeitlin’s damply poetic debut follows 6-year-old Hushpuppy (the elemental Quvenzhané Wallis), a denizen of a dirt-poor community in the wetness of the Louisiana …
DVD review: ‘Story of a Love Affair’ Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Mike Nichols, Stanley Kubrick and the Coen brothers are some filmmakers who seem to have sprung onto their first movie set fully developed. Michelangelo Antonioni deserves to go to the head of the class, as attested to by the recent release of a major digital restoration of his first movie, the all-but-forgotten “Story of a Love …
DVD review: ‘For the First Time’ Before this film, he lost a lot of weight, but still looks chubby – on three occasions the movie refers to his weight, in a self-deprecating and charming way.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 20 Casa de Mi Padre Expect maximum Ferrellian oddness in this Spanish-language spoof of Mexican soap operas, which stars Will Ferrell as the stupid, unappreciated son of an old ranchero (Pedro Armendariz Jr.). The Fairy Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel, who wrote, directed and star in this comedy, have developed their own distinct style of performance, which mixes …
Movies now playing Vampire Hunter This crazy mashup, based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel, works because the filmmakers aren’t smirky about the gimmick but treat it with an illusion of seriousness: Abe Lincoln, the 16th president, is also an action hero dedicated to the proposition that the only good vampire is a destroyed vampire. The Amazing Spider-Man While you can argue that the last thing …
DVD review: ‘The Gold Rush’ The histories of literature and classical music contain many examples of artists going back years later and tampering with and diminishing their earlier work. Seventeen years later, wanting to rerelease the film, but finding himself in an era in which silent films had no audience, he eliminated the intertitles, made cuts in the story, changed the ending and added his …
Movies opening Friday, July 13 Bonsái A guy tries to weave a romantic spell around the new object of his affection by dishing about one of his past relationships. Crazy Eyes Zach (Lukas Haas) has the money, the time and the lack of direction to party his life away. Continental Drift Scrat’s nutty obsession with an acorn results in an earth-shattering fracture
New DVD and Blu-ray releases, July 6 God Bless America Writer-director-cynic Bobcat Goldthwait follows “World’s Greatest Dad” with this dark portrait of a man (Joel Murray) and teenager (Tara Lynne Barr) who go on a killing spree in their quest to wipe out rude Americans. In this film – whose only fault is that it’s simply not very entertaining, but it is reasonably interesting – Willem Dafoe …
Which movies to see this weekend, July 6 Pink Ribbons, Inc. How can anyone ever say anything negative about promoting breast cancer awareness? why should pink ribbons, which have become a symbol of hope and sisterhood, make some women feel angry and alienated