Director Daniel Espinosa presents ‘Safe House’ with lots of handheld shaky-cam work and uncomfortable close-ups to make it seem more realistic, which is good—because if you think too much about the plot, you may realize it’s pretty silly stuff.
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Eric, Trey and Trevan talk about the upcoming Scene-Stealers/Lost In Reviews Oscar Party before moving on to discuss the new Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds vehicle “Safe House” and Wim Wenders’ new 3D documentary “Pina.” Oh, and for our loyal podcast listeners, check us out/subscribe on iTunes or our RSS.
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‘Shut Up Little Man!’ is a bit of personal entertainment that, due to popular dissemination via cassettes (audio and video) in the pre-Internet age, grows beyond its beginnings between friends into a global phenomenon.
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Out on DVD and Blu-ray this week is ‘Drive,’ one of the best and most surprising movies of 2011, and ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ digitally remastered and fully restored from its original 35mm film in a 50th Anniversary presentation.
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It may be hard to believe, but there are some romantic comedies that surprise and some that even work despite their formulaic underpinnings. This Top 10 list of romantic movies will start with the easiest to swallow and get crazier as it goes. Each and every one of them is recommended for Valentine’s Day movie watching.
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“You could say that Monty Python did for comedy what The Beatles did for music,” Handlen writes in If You Like Monty Python…. He then follows up with: “Anyone listening would almost certainly and rightly, think you were a bit of a prat, but you could say it.”
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With the success of this weekend’s low-budget found-footage superpower movie ‘Chronicle,’ we thought it would be fun to look back in the Scene-Stealers vault to four years ago when director Matt Reeves and producer J. J. Abrams hoisted ‘Cloverfield,’ a monster movie firmly rooted in the lo-fi-meets-CGI aesthetic, on the world.
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Spanish surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel opens his 1967 classic Belle de Jour, out now on DVD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection, with a flogging.
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What makes ‘Chronicle’ different from every other superhero movie out there is that it’s presented as found footage, meaning it’s supposedly filmed by the teenagers, their friends, and existing security cameras.
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This week, Eric and Trevan review “Chronicle,” while Trey sorts out Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Potter movie “The Woman In Black.” Then all three come together to discuss the merits of “The Artist.”
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‘The Woman in Black,’ pits a partially matured Daniel Radcliffe against a maleficent spirit bent upon making an entire village childless.
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‘Chronicle’ is a first-person, found footage take on the super hero genre, but it’s also a remarkably affecting teenage drama, as it unpacks familiar issues such as alienation, loneliness and the awkwardness that is inherent in almost every adolescence.
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