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Category Archives: Weekly Movie Recommendations
DVD of the Week: Kaboom
And now for some sexy silliness. Director Gregg Araki created the brilliant and searing Mysterious Skin, but here he’s just having fun. In the first hour of Kaboom, I lost track of how many characters had sex with each other … Continue reading
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DVD of the Week: Kings of Pastry
This documentary chronicles the physically grueling and emotionally draining three-day competition for the MOF, the highest designation for French pastry chefs. Amid impossibly towering sugar sculptures and delectable cream puffs and layer cakes, we see the essential cores of competition … Continue reading
Movies to See Right Now
The searing drama Incendies is the year’s best film so far. Upon their mother’s death, a young man and woman learn for the first time of their father and their brother and journey from Quebec to the Middle East to … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: Diabolique
The headmaster of a provincial boarding school is so cruel, even sadistic, that everyone wants him dead, especially his wife and his mistress. When he goes missing, the police drain the murky pool where the killers dumped the body, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Criterion, Diabolique, French, Henri-Georges Clouzot, movie recommendations, Movies, suspense, thriller
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Movies to See Right Now
Don’t miss Cave of Forgotten Dreams while it can be seen in 3D; Werner Herzog explores the amazing 30,000 year old Chauvet cave paintings. In the fine French drama Queen to Play, a working class woman discovers a passion for … Continue reading
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Tagged Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Hail! The Conquering Hero, Hanna, In a Better World, Incendies, Meek’s Cutoff, movie recommendations, Movies, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Queen to Play, Rififi, Source Code, The Princess of Montpensier, The Robber
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DVD of the Week: Hail! The Conquering Hero
This brilliantly funny movie is one of Preston Sturges’ less well known great comedies. Eddie Bracken plays a would-be soldier discharged for hay fever – but his hometown mistakenly think that he is sent home a war hero. Hilarity ensues. … Continue reading
Movies to See Right Now
Don’t miss Source Code, a gripping scifi thriller with intelligence and heart, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga and Michelle Monaghan. Poetry is a troubling, uncomfortable and profound film with a great performance by Koran actress Jeong-hie Yun. In a Better … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: Moguls And Movie Stars
Moguls And Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood is a 7-part series from Turner Classic Movies , which originally broadcast the series last fall. Most histories of cinema emphasize the technical and creative evolutions of film. Instead, Moguls traces the … Continue reading
Movies to See Right Now
The Must See film is Source Code, a gripping scifi thriller with intelligence and heart, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga and Michelle Monaghan. Carancho is an Argentine love story nestled into a dark and violent noirish thriller, starring Ricardo Darin … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: Somewhere
This is Sofia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) story of an A-list movie star (Steven Dorff) living at the Chateau Marmont with his expensive toys, booze and drugs and an inexhaustible supply of beautiful, sexually available women. Without any purpose or … Continue reading
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