Recommended In 10 Words or Less Another surreal trip from Quentin Dupieux Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Surreal films, dogs Likes: Jack Plotnick, Quentin Dupieux Dislikes: Closed-minded audiences Hates: Boring old movies The Movie Quentin Dupieux’s 2010 English-language debut Rubber is a striking film, telling the story of a homicidal tire with psychic powers, on a killing spree, as an audience …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Â At an age when most actors had long since stopped takingroles (or more likely, the phone had stopped ringing) Cary Grant wasstill making superbfilms. Â After making the excellentthriller Charade , Grant went to workon the WWII light comedy, Father Goose ,his second to last movie
Recommended Geez! Disney sure has been on a tear recently.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Best known because it was banned by the BBC before it was supposed to be aired in 1977, Alan Clarke’s Scum holds up well despite all the hype around this project, one which actually started life as a made for TV movie. In the lead, Ray Winstone plays Carlin, a thug imprisoned for his wrongdoings on the outside. He’s recently been transferred to Borstel, a youth …
Rent It The Film: The Barretts are in the middle of a rough patch: while Lacy (Keri Russell) struggles to sell houses around their suburban neighborhood, namely fixer-upper opportunities, her unemployed husband, Daniel (Josh Hamilton), hunts for a coveted architecture position at a time when the pickings are slim. As lack-of-payment notices keep rolling in and their financial struggles hamper …
Recommended Pals of the Saddle (1938), the first of John Wayne’s eight “Three Mesquiteers” movies for Republic Pictures, B-Westerns he made during 1938-39, also happens to be the last released by Olive Films. Olive’s Blu-ray releases have consistently been outstanding, with these lowly little movies, pictures heretofore available only via public domain labels using horrifically bad video …
Skip It It only takes three things to make a good movie: an interesting and engaging story, well-drawn characters, and skillful execution.
Rent It The Movie: The John Wayne melodrama Three Faces West is nothing if not timely, tackling issues of rural poverty, the dust bowl, European expatriots in the U.S., and the threat of fascism all within the span of 80 minutes. A product of Wayne’s longtime employers at Reupublic Pictures, the 1940 film arrives on DVD and Blu Ray as the latest in Olive Pictures’ line of handsomely reissued …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I lamented the aging of steadfast movie hero Clint Eastwood in my review for Trouble with the Curve , and have similar feelings about Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin in Stand Up Guys . I guess it’s time to accept that my acting heroes are not getting any younger, and, particularly in Pacino’s case, it …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and stills provided by Criterion , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s no coincidence that, of all the multifarious masterpieces the great French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has given us over the years and decades, it’s 1964’s Band of Outsiders ( Bande part ) that revved American auteur Quentin …