Not every movie can be The Hunger Games. You might not have heard of them, or you might’ve written them off?either way, here are the movies of 2013 that deserved more eyeballs.
Recommended In 10 Words or Less The little blue girl gets center stage Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays Likes: The Smurfs cartoons, Hank Azaria Dislikes: Most TV-show movie adaptations Hates: Grouchy, wasted talent The Story So Far… The Smurfs, little, magical, blue forest creatures, were a phenomenon in the 80s thanks to their popular TV cartoon, but …
Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Celebrating George Pal’s mostly-forgotten animated legacy Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation Likes: Davey & Goliath , Gumby , Historical collections that don’t ignore controversy Dislikes: Most puppets Hates: How artists oft go unappreciated The Movie Though I consider myself film literate, before watching this set, the extent of my knowledge of George Pal …
DVD Talk Collector Series “There are eight million stories in the naked city…” …and here are 138 of them.
Highly Recommended To be perfectly honest, when I requested The Attack it was listed in our screener pool only as “Attack” and I thought it was the same-named 1955 Robert Aldrich war movie. Instead, it turned out to be a partly American-financed movie about an Arab man living in Tel Aviv coming to grips with the realization that his wife may have been responsible for a suicide bombing that …
Rent It THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. HBO’s latest “miniseries event” certainly has an impressive CV
Recommended Barbara (2012) is a low-key, nearly minimalist drama about an East German doctor trying to keep co-workers and neighbors at arm’s length while she plots to flee to the West and into the arms of the West German boyfriend trying to facilitate her escape.
Rent It Planes may be set “above the world of Cars !”, but it struggles to reach even the modest heights of Pixar’s most lackluster franchise. Get it? Heights?
Skip It The Movie: I am not entirely sure where one could place a Shroud of Turin on the movie formula where a young actor that has been labeled (either by the populous or in increasing cases recently by a movie studio) the next big thing or an up and comer is cast opposite a veteran actor or actors. Perhaps a director is included in the mix. But growing up, I can recall Tom Cruise almost …