I chose to review the Criterion Collection version of The Game partially because I really don’t believe in a lot of the hocus-pocus digital magic over-priced Blu-ray cash-grabs, and I wanted to point at this edition and say “it didn’t affect my experience and it’s a waste of money.” It did. And it’s not. As is the case in many things, I was plain wrong.
As far as modern filmmaking goes, there aren’t many who have better utilized the medium like Sirk.
"The search for truth requires a method." So says Rene Descartes in one of Roberto Rossellini's seldom seen television projects.
It is a testament to film’s great storytelling that a movie about a boxer makes the big final fight second fiddle to the story of a man and his daughter.
The stuff of which dreams are made. But the dream ends, as all dreams do.
Honestly, Ant-Man has more things I liked than any comic book movie since...Batman Begins maybe?
You will see light in the darkness / you will make some sense of this / and when you've made your secret journey / you will find the love you miss.
Don't Look Now (★★★★½) is one of the rarest types of films. Not only is it an unnerving thriller saturated with supernatural themes concerning grief, deceptive appearances, ESP, and acceptance of death, but it is also one of the few films to improve on its excellent source material, the 1971 short story of the same title by Daphne du Maurier.
Pure Flix, the studio behind God's Not Dead and Do You Believe? has set a release date for God's Not Dead 2: He is Surely Alive. The studio also released the first publicity photo for the film, starring Melissa Joan Hart and Jesse Metcalfe.
The studio is celebrating the DVD release of Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police, which arrives July 14th. Based on Andy Summers' memoir, One Train Later, the documentary recounts the band's rise to stardom and provides an inside look at preparations for its 2007 reunion tour.
