An animated children’s movie about pirates and a drama about a man living his life out of order are two new DVDs out now.
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Blu-ray/DVD Reviews
As unassuming as Weekend is, it’s also surprisingly powerful in that it creeps up on you. The dialogue is natural, the sex scenes are tender, and the camera never gets in the way of the story.
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Two movies new out on Blu-ray and DVD are being marketed as adult dramas, but one is just a little more adult than the other.
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They may not be have any Hollywood actors in them, but the two movies in today’s DVD review are definitely worth checking out.
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Evil is the theme of two movies new out on DVD. One is a thriller starring two well-known actors (‘Meeting Evil’) and the other tells the final chapter of a real-life horror story (‘Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory’).
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Japan’s most famous swordsman gets the Criterion treatment, but it’s more ‘Gone with the Wind’ than ‘Seven Samurai.’
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‘Get the Gringo’ and ‘Detention’ didn’t get wide theatrical releases, but these two over-the-top movies prove that just because a film didn’t hit theaters doesn’t mean it’s not worth checking out.
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Scalene, the feature debut for director Zack Parker, is a genre bending film that is part psychological mystery, part character drama and stars Hannah Hall and Margo Martindale.
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If you’re looking to rent a new action movie or a romantic comedy this weekend, you might want to watch/read this first.
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Two comedies that may appeal to very different crowds (‘The Three Stooges’ and ‘Footnote’) are new out on Blu-ray and DVD.
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A long-delayed dramatic movie with some big stars (‘Margaret’) and a not-needed sequel with some actors who probably needed the work (‘American Reunion’) are available on Blu-ray and DVD now.
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Whit Stillman’s witty, talky films ‘Metropolitan’ and ‘The Last Days of Disco’ are subject to an inordinate amount of critical dismissal, but on Criterion Blu-ray, they look like low-key classics.
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Directed by Tarsem Singh, Mirror, Mirror is like a children’s storybook come to life. Project X is meant to look like its shot on home video cameras and contains perhaps the single most annoying character ever put on film.
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This isn’t an objective documentary. It’s packaged with a short fictional film, and all of the band’s videos. As an official band doc, Bring On the Mountain is a slightly glossy production, rather than a “warts and all” affair.
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Humor and romance play a big part in the breezy yet tense The 39 Steps and the mistaken-identity/conspiracy plot and flirtatious nature of the lead character would also later be used to great effect by Hitchcock in ‘North by Northwest’ with Cary Grant.
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