Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Janus Films , not the Blu-ray edition under review. How might one go about transforming the rundown, low-rent districts, shipyards, and other workaday views in a non-tourist-attraction French port city into a visually lovely, sweet setting for a storybook-like political-fable film …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Janus Films , not the Blu-ray edition under review. How might one go about transforming the rundown, low-rent districts, shipyards, and other workaday views in a non-tourist-attraction French port city into a visually lovely, sweet setting for a storybook-like political-fable film …
Recommended A remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and the Frederick Knott play from which it was derived, A Perfect Murder (1998) cannily reconfigures its plot and characters for a much more cynical, modern day audience. Patrick Smith Kelly’s screenplay deviates from its source quite a bit, but the results aren’t terrible
Recommended Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is, by most accounts, a pretty unlikable guy. He’s deceitful, manipulative, self-centered, neurotic, callous and insensitive. He’s just been through an unexpected breakup with a longtime girlfriend, so he’s naturally doing a bit of self-reflection to figure out where everything went drastically, dreadfully wrong
Rent It The Film: Underutilized actor Nick Stahl, best known from his roles as an earthy super-powered prophet in HBO’s Carnivale , continues his streak of flimsy direct-to-video appearances with On the Inside , an institutional drama-thriller from Haunting in Connecticut director D.W.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended Sure, its title might bring to mind some sort of brutal, nihilistic Spaghetti Western, but 1975’s Bite the Bullet is instead a character-driven adventure, one that’s set against the backdrop of an epic race at the [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Rent It The Movie: When I revisited the 2011 World Series earlier in the year, I really enjoyed how the series’ momentum between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals swung back and forth many times through the course of the series, and that Game 6 “was the most tension-filled and perhaps one of the best in recent Series memory.” And to presumably further the case of this, A&E (in …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. In his debut film, 1990’s Metropolitan , it was magical the way writer/director Whit Stillman unexpectedly rendered so captivating and charming the humorous, touching postgraduate romantic peccadilloes of young, ultra …
Highly Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The second season of HBO’s New Orleans drama Treme takes the series into a comfortable stride, settling deeper into the characters and the city’s culture and proving that David Simon ( The Wire , Generation Kill ) is one of the more expansive …