Highly Recommended The Movie: Â At an age when most actors had long since stopped takingroles (or more likely, the phone had stopped ringing) Cary Grant wasstill making superbfilms. Â After making the excellentthriller Charade , Grant went to workon the WWII light comedy, Father Goose ,his second to last movie
Recommended Geez! Disney sure has been on a tear recently.
For Mac Miller, an album isn’t a vehicle for promoting a slew of singles. The 21-year-old Pittsburgh rapper’s second LP, “Watching Movies With the…
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection , not the current Blu-ray edition under review. If one were forced (against one’s will, it would have to be) to pick and choose and split hairs among the near-uniformly excellent, inspired, and distinctive-visioned films of English writer-director Mike …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Dwayne Johnson’s tough-guy swagger and imposing physical presence do not faze the agents of the international drug cartel to which Johnson’s construction-company owner John Matthews finds himself suddenly tied. Johnson plays against type as a desperate suburban father who agrees to help the Feds make a high …
Highly Recommended THE FILM “This place isn’t haunted,” says a young man, Jo o (Gustavo John), to a potential condo buyer at one point in Brazilian writer/director Kleber Mendon a Filho’s vital, indelible debut feature-length picture, Neighboring Sounds . Jo o is putting his client’s mind at ease because of a suicide she’s heard tell of in this high-rise residential building , owned by Jo o’s …
Recommended While I’ve always associated John Cusack mainly with comedies, including the absolutely hilarious Better Off Dead , he’s done well in many more serious roles as well although somehow not many of them have stuck with me. In The Numbers Station , he plays Emerson Kent, a CIA black ops agent who has been increasingly bothered with issues of the morality of his job
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The tough decision between a meal and a relationship Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Creative genre films Likes: Zombie stories, Jonathan Levine Dislikes: Movies lacking in subtlety Hates: The Twilight franchise, formula movie-making The Movie Warm Bodies is as pandering as a film concept can get while still being original and entertaining. Take the fantasy love …
Recommended Pals of the Saddle (1938), the first of John Wayne’s eight “Three Mesquiteers” movies for Republic Pictures, B-Westerns he made during 1938-39, also happens to be the last released by Olive Films. Olive’s Blu-ray releases have consistently been outstanding, with these lowly little movies, pictures heretofore available only via public domain labels using horrifically bad video …