Recommended The Movie: Dear White People is like a less brutal, angry, poignant, yet almost as funny millennial version of Do The Right Thing , utilizing the benign hipster storytelling approach of Wes Anderson while appropriating some of the visual aesthetics of late period Kubrick. It's not the new original voice of satire or the groundbreaking honest take on America's current race relations …
Rent It Director: James Motttern Starring: Ben Barnes, Leighton Meester, Harvey Keitel Year: 2014 I'm a big NFL fan and always enjoy when a football player makes the transition to Hollywood actor.
Recommended “Brawling! Like a common hussy!” — Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), appalled at her own violence Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) is a fascinating though ultimately not very good oddball Western. Its gender-switch plot plays like a crude warm-up to Johnny Guitar , (1954), Nicholas Ray's celebrated if campy Western starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge. In Woman They Almost …
Recommended The Movie: Directed (and co-written) by Yang Lu, 2014's Brotherhood Of Blades is set in the Ming Dynasty and is one of many recent Chinese period martial arts dramas to make its way to these North American shores over the last few years. A lot of these pictures are fairly interchangeable, though they do typically boast beautiful production values and impressive martial arts set …
Highly Recommended The Film: Porco Rosso rarely finds itself at the top of most Studio Ghibli “favorite” lists, which are often capped off with the works of Hayao Miyazaki involving whimsical creatures of the forest and grand narratives hinged on being transported to dream-like settings. His tale of a veteran WWI pilot turned bounty hunter who's been cursed with the vestige of a pig doesn't have …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Henry V is Kenneth Branagh's much-revered directorial debut and perhaps the best of his Shakespeare adaptations. Only 29-years-old when his film was released, Branagh was already tapped by critics and audiences back then as the next Laurence Olivier
Highly Recommended Though it takes place during the American Civil War—which has no shortage of big and small screen “adaptations”, for lack of a better word—Chris Eska's The Retrieval (2013) doesn't feel like many period-specific historical dramas that have come before it.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. David Dobkin's The Judge is the kind of stuffed-to-the-brim drama that draws critical guff
Rent It Track the Man Down (1954) is an extremely mild thriller about the manhunt following a greyhound track robbery, of interest today mainly for its cast, and because it was one of a small handful of pictures made by Republic Pictures' British subsidiary. (Presumably, Republic made films there to access funds that could only be spent in Britain.) Like the contemporaneous co-productions …
Highly Recommended The Movie: As the holiday video gifts of December transition into January, we get the occasional underrated film before February's release of films aspiring for any award possible. And with The Drop , we experience a film that came and went perhaps a little too quickly, also was perhaps noted for something out of its control. Yet on its merits, the film deserves a place in (or …