Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Roman Polanski’s Carnage begins at what appears to be the end. Two pairs of parents, the Longstreets (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) and the Cowans (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz), have met at the former’s apartment because their two sons have had a fight
Recommended “It was Avatar who fought alongside my father against the first mutant attack. So, now we have our messiah back again
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Sony Pictures Classics, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It happens to the best of them, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’m talking about the “maturing” of some prominent, long-running filmmakers–John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, David Cronenberg–who started out as …
Highly Recommended As sometimes happens, I’m reviewing the British (and Irish) mystery series George Gently (2007-present) out of sequence. I examined Series 2 , a DVD release, in May 2010, and then took a gander at Series 3 , on Blu-ray, in June 2011
Recommended Would you believe the directors responsible for the likes of Nutty Professor II, Twilight – New Moon, See This Movie , and Little Fockers could have been responsible for delivering one of the best comedies the 90’s had to offer?
Highly Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’ve been known to complain from time to time how, every Thursday night, my Twitter feed fills up with quotes from NBC’s comedy line-up. Every other tweet ends up being someone repeating a line from that evening’s 30 Rock , Parks & Recreation , or …
Highly Recommended Don’t read this review of Princess Jellyfish . I mean it! Watch a couple of (completely legal and legitimate!) episodes on YouTube , then run out and buy this DVD/Blu-ray combo pack
Skip It Entering the picture to James Bond-style guitar riffs, and quickly dispensing of a few nobodies without messing up his nice suit or slick shades, there’s no question that Mandrill (Marko Zaror) is a cool character in the mind of director/writer Ernesto D az Espinoza. The mind of the viewer is another story. Zaror is a talented martial artist with some eye-popping moves in his arsenal …
Recommended THE SERIES: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Fox Searchlight, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene is the kind of film that, in a better world, would be showered with Oscars and have the whole culture (not just the little patch of movie-reviewer land that, for example, yours truly …