DVD Releases: 05/18/10
A nice mix this week: Extraordinary Measures — Harrison Ford and The Man Furry Vengeance Couldn’t Destroy star in this medical melodrama that seems awfully similar to the 1992 Nolte/Sarandon vehicle Lorenzo’s Oil.
DVD Releases: 05/04/10
Three notable films this week, just not all for the same reasons: Tokyo Sonata, one of 2009′s finest films (domestic or international) is about a family out of sync. From director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, best known for thrillers like Cure and Pulse/Kairo, this very quiet and intricate domestic drama is powerful and affecting. Nine should [...]
DVD Releases: 04/27/10
Big week, for the fun and serious: The big story this week is not the usual releases, but that Netflix has obtained Andrei Konchalovsky’s Runaway Train, a powerful film based on an Akira Kurosawa story. With Jon Voight playing the best role of his career, mining the depths of brutal existentialism while teaching young Eric [...]
DVD Releases: 04/20/10
Still so tired from the Dallas International Film Festival; here are your DVD releases for the week: Mammoth, directed by Lukas Moodysson, starring Michelle Williams, is about a butterfly effect of events around the world, involving a successful businessman, his surgeon wife and their Filipino nanny. The Lovely Bones, the much-derided Peter Jackson adaptation of [...]
