‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ is a good mix of a solid sci-fi concept, great character development, and a surprising emotional investment. ‘Point Blank’ moves so fast and furiously that you will forget you are reading subtitles altogether.
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‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ succeeds in dishing up exactly what you would expect: State of the arts stunts, non-stop action, and a series of clearly laid-out heists and chases that go awry in all kinds of creative ways.
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The action sequences have defined the ‘Mission: Impossible’ series since it’s beginnings, and Brad Bird just knocks this film out of the park. Anyone who’s seen ‘The Incredibles’ knows that the world of superspys and bigger-than-life threats has long been adored by Bird, and that shows in nearly every aspect of the film.
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For Good or Ill, ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ is Guy Ritchie at his Guy Ritchie-est.
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The new dark comedy Young Adult is just plain nuts—it’s a high-wire act without a net.
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‘Design For Living’ is pure cinematic gold, and the Criterion Blu-ray is full of extra material that will help modern audiences appreciate how far ahead of its time this 1933 romantic comedy truly was.
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Pearl Harbor is re-created and re-packaged in a nice Blu-ray digibook, and a low-budget sci-fi movie examines personal tragedy and redemption on Blu-ray and DVD.
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Criterion’s ’12 Angry Men’ Blu-ray and the new ‘romantic comedy’ ‘Friends With Benefits’ are studies in the polar opposites in things you can do with a movie. Here’s the Blu-ray review:
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The story of Memphis and its obsession with the squared circle is explored in the new documentary Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin’.
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One of the funniest and most original films of the 1990s makes its way to Blu-ray in a new special edition from The Criterion Collection that features enough extras to keep you busy all month.
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In the new live-action/CGI movie ‘The Smurfs,’ this combination may only work for young kids. In other words, it’s not quite as awful as I expected it to be.
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What I had heard about Bellflower, an indie movie labor-of-love shot on a shoestring budget, was a tad misleading: “It’s about two guys who build a flamethrower and a weaponized car so they can rule the world following the inevitable apocalypse.”
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Christopher Plummer is gaining a lot of Oscar buzz for his performance as a man who comes out as gay not long after his wife dies. Ewan MacGregor plays his son Oliver, and Beginnners, directed by Mike Mills, is his story.
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‘My Week With Marilyn’ is a frustrating lark of a film anchored by an impressive performance from Michelle Williams.
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In ‘Melancholia,’ Lars von Trier has created a deeply personal examination of the the extremes of depression. Is the end of the world real or metaphorical? Is the science behind it sound? These questions are ultimately irrelevant, as the movie forces the viewer to deal with fear on a personal level as well. This isn’t a film about the “global” end of the world. It’s a film about what the end of the world inside one person feels like.
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