Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Desk Set is usually given a low standing among the string of Tracy/Hepburn movies. It may not be as inspired as Woman of the Year or as beautifully written as Adam’s Rib , but this comedy about career insecurity in the newly-established corporate America has a lot of relevance today, even if its concept of the supposed threat posed by computers is way off …
Recommended THE FILMS: With Paramount’s Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit on the horizon, it is appropriate to revisit the four older Ryan thrillers. Culled from Tom Clancy’s novels, each film has its merits and all are worth watching. The series has thus far had three leading men – Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck – and Chris Pine is set to play the sometimes CIA agent Ryan in Shadow Recruit …
Highly Recommended The Film: Thomas Vinterberg has found a way to turn a pre-school girl into something of a villain in The Hunt ( Jagten ), a morally and psychologically complex dramatic-thriller — perhaps even a bit of a horror film — centered on the crowd mentality of inquisitions based on unfalsifiable accusations. By design, the material here is tough to digest: it focuses on how a …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. By all accounts, the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs was a complicated man.
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by David Schmoeller in 1986, Crawlspace (not to be confused with the made for TV movie of the same name) is a twisted thriller that once again found the writer/director working with producer Charles Band (then with Empire Pictures, prior to starting Full Moon).
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less More minions, but too much stuffing Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation, Minions, Despicable Me Likes: Kristin Wiig, Steve Carell Dislikes: Meaningless sequels Hates: The Story So Far… The first film from Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment, Despicable Me was a out-of-nowhere hit, telling the animated story of Gru (Steve Carell), a supervillain …
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Time for more cha-cha music, manly men, swanky dames, and Rat Pack-era swellegance. In an unfortunate coincidence, we happened to watch the second and final season of the Starz “mobsters and mayhem in 1959 Miami” drama Magic City at the same time …
Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Celebrating George Pal’s mostly-forgotten animated legacy Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation Likes: Davey & Goliath , Gumby , Historical collections that don’t ignore controversy Dislikes: Most puppets Hates: How artists oft go unappreciated The Movie Though I consider myself film literate, before watching this set, the extent of my knowledge of George Pal …