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 …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Brad Anderson refuses to be pigeonholed.
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 …
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”