Highly Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. It would be easy to summarize Laggies , the new film by Seattle director Lynn Shelton, as being about a woman suffering from the same kind of arrested development as so many movie manchildren.
Highly Recommended Take a blanket, made for two now, Add a boy and a girl.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
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 impending Valentine's Day release of Sam Taylor-Johnson's big-screen adaptation of the controversial E.L. James novel Fifty Shades of Grey has the internet in thinkpiece mode. Does S&M glorify abuse and violence
Rent It The Movie: I would like to take the time to thank Jon Stewart for announcing his departure from The Daily Show , off to undertake endeavors that are unknown to me. Not because of his time spent on the show which mind you, was prodigious, but that he managed to give an unknown amount of dum-dums like myself some form of segue and/or introduction to the last notable time Stewart left his …
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Rent It THE FILM: I guess 2013's V/H/S 2 represents the peak on this cinematic bell curve, as the original and this second sequel, V/H/S: Viral , are about on par with one another.
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
Recommended The Film: Unless you're throttling a spaceship towards the gravitational pull of a celestial boy, the methods in which time travel occur in fiction will always seem more magical than scientific, no matter if it's rudimentary wired-up cockpits powered by technobabble or tricked-out Delorians and blue telephone booths. What matters is how the time-travel itself gets used, whether for …