Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman ( Damsels in Distress ) is a magical filmmaker, and a challenging one, too, though in few of the ways that word might usually apply. He presents viewers (or at least, speaking for myself, a viewer like me) with the challenge of stories …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. One of the movie moments that made the deepest impressions on me as a youngster/budding cinephile was the few minutes in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors where Judah (Martin Landau) revisits a scene from his …
Skip It THE FILM: Channing Tatum is in demand these days after stripping for Steven Soderbergh and fighting crime undercover with Jonah Hill. Step Up , released back in 2006, is not up to par with Tatum’s more recent films, and plays like a bland knockoff of the already-middle-of-the-road Save the Last Dance .
Skip It THE MOVIE: “C’mon guys, that was funny.” -Stiffler “Maybe in high school it was funny.” -Jim And there you have the trouble with American Reunion in a two-line nutshell, with this film that has gone to a tremendous amount of trouble to gather all of the players (no matter how minor) from the hit 1999 comedy, and has gone to no trouble at all to give them anything funny or interesting to …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Chariots of Fire is a film I had seen parodied long before I actually saw it. The film’s ubiquitous title sequence of runners on a beach and its synthesizer-heavy score is known by many unfamiliar with the complete work. The Oscar-winning drama is quite good, too, and tells the story of two runners in 1920s Britain who deal with anti-Semitism and religious conviction …
DVD Talk Collector Series Chronologically speaking, Love and Anarchy ( Film d’amore e d’anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza… , or “Love and Anarchy or: This Morning at 10, on Via dei Fiori, in a Famous Brothel …” 1973) is the second of three great new Blu-ray releases from Kino Classics
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The eye is the window to the story Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Criterion Collection, good monologues Likes: Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh Dislikes: Hates: Anything bad involving eyes The Movie Thanks to a bootleg VHS tape of Gray’s Anatomy I first discovered Spalding Gray in college, while a performance of his It’s a Slippery Slope at Lincoln Center …
Rent It In a not-so-distant future, rival gangs square off in underground “Beat Beat Revelation” tournaments. JTRO (Jason Trost) and BTRO (Brandon Barrera) are two brothers who routinely wipe the floor with their competition, but their dream team is halved when BTRO has a panic-induced meltdown and dies during a battle with the vile L Dubba E (Lee Valmassey).
Recommended Just a few short weeks after signing the lease on their dream apartment in New York City, George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) are forced to leave it behind when George’s company is raided by the FBI and HBO decides to pass on Linda’s latest passion project (a documentary about penguins suffering from testicular cancer). Professionally adrift and financially unstable, it …
Highly Recommended The Movie: British director Stuart Baird takes the helm of 1998’s U.S. Marshals , the sort of sequel to The Fugitive