Highly Recommended So, I’m looking down at the notes I jotted down while mainlining the fourth season of Archer on Blu-ray. Extended dog birthday flashback. Prehensile tail riff
Recommended You don’t have to be staring down retirement to enjoy Jon Turtletaub’s Last Vegas (2013), especially if you’re a fan of the talent involved. Its most notable strength is the participation of Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline as the center of its ensemble cast; though none of this quartet had ever worked with one another, they carry the weight of this …
Highly Recommended It’s a shame that Jesse James (1939), Fox’s big Technicolor Western starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Randolph Scott, is remembered for its historical inaccuracies and for one notorious scene of alleged animal abuse than for the movie itself. That’s because the movie, for the most part, is excellent, in some respects way ahead of its time
Recommended North to Alaska (1960) is a big-scale but disappointing John Wayne Western-romantic comedy set in Nome at the turn of the century. It was produced in part to cash-in on Alaska’s recent statehood, but was mainly an attempt by powerful producer-talent agent Charles K. Feldman to provide his then-girlfriend, French model-turned-actress Capucine, with a career-boosting star vehicle …
Highly Recommended Most people with any knowledge of rock music (or Martin Scorsese’s movies) can summon The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” to mind. Powerful riffs, Mick Jagger, and a woman, belting out the memorable lyric, “it’s just a shot away” at the top of her lungs. Merry Clayton generally got her work doing back-up vocals, and she’s not alone: 20 Feet From Stardom interviews a whole …
Recommended TheShow: In Japan, the government funded Young Animator Training Project grantsmoney to companies for the express purpose of passing on animationexpertise to the next generation through on-the-job training withnovice animators working with more experienced talent.
Recommended The Movie: A couple weeks ago, my girlfriend emailed me a link about a Finnish word, “my t h pe .” The website she linked to defined the word as “the feeling of shame you experience on behalf of another person or a character when they do something stupid or embarassing.” She sent me this because I frequently suffer from my t h pe when watching TV and movies.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD copy included in the package, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
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.