Recommended The Movie: From Ralph Bakshi, the man who brought Robert Crumb’s Fritz The Cat to animated form a year earlier, comes 1973’s bizarre counter culture animated feature, Heavy Traffic . Given that Fritz and its more explicit content became a huge box office hit when released, it probably won’t surprise too many to learn that Bakshi returns to that same adult landscape for this mix of …
Rent It The Movie: Approaching a film that was based on a Stephanie Meyer novel can be a dicey proposition. The woman behind the Twilight series of books that later spawned a series of films that scores of women young and old flocked to is attempting to break out into ground past that cast shadow. And while The Host shares its name with the 2006 Korean horror film, one could very well assert …
Highly Recommended I was amazed at how well the trailer of Stoker was able to reel me in. Marketing campaigns typically only have the ability to make me say yay or nay, but this time, I actually found myself intrigued on a much deeper level. There were flashes that indicated a tense love triangle would revolve around a man seducing both mother and daughter – The former a reflection of what …
Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Eric Red (who also wrote), 1989’s Cohen And Tate begins at a farm, looking as serene and peaceful as you’d expect, except for the armed guards surrounding the house.
Highly Recommended The Movie: With the news of the day covering things like America’s security agencies monitoring their citizens’ phone calls and communications in various electronic forms, the Oscar-nominated Dror Moreh documentary The Gatekeepers couldn’t see a better time for a video release. Moreh interviewed the last six former directors of the Shin Bet, the principal security organization …
Highly Recommended During the early 1930s, ambitious comedy producer Hal Roach, anxious to move away from the two-reel comedies for which he was famous, decided that his ticket to bigger and better things lay in feature-length, lavishly costumed adaptations of operettas. And yet the resulting, dramatically wobbly films, Fra Diavolo , Babes in Toyland , and The Bohemian Girl , would be forgotten …
Recommended Alice (Juno Temple) and John (Michael Angarano) are young and in love. Wait, scratch that: let’s go with “young, in love, and flat broke” instead. That’s what overpriced, [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Rent It The Movie: Talk about non-truth in advertising. When the advance trailer for Upside Down first turned up online, its parade of eye-popping imagery promised a moody and enigmatic, Inception -like immersive experience. While there was a lot of potential in this tale of young lovers separated by planets having opposing gravity pulls, the facile romance at the film’s core brings to mind the …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review. It’s always troubling to ponder, the way that the time, place, and culture in which one is born and raised can so easily slot you onto the wrong side of history. How sure can any of us be that we would’ve been in the tiny minority …
Skip It In 10 Words or Less An all-star sketch comedy mess Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Sketch movies, Emma Stone Likes: Many of this film’s stars Dislikes: Potty humor Hates: Lazy filmmaking The Movie You know that thing where when a kid does something wrong, and the parent says “I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed”