High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewChris Cooper Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View

TIFF Journal: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Jason Gorber — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:00:16 +0000

Fred Rogers is an extraordinary subject for a movie, as proven by Morgan Neville’s phenomenal 2018 documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?. Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood takes a different tack, placing Rogers almost at the sidelines of his own story. Generations of children grew up to the sights of a lanky...

The post TIFF Journal: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

‘Live by Night’ Review: Sleep by Cinema

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:00:48 +0000

On a purely technical level, ‘Live by Night’ is probably the finest “film de Ben Affleck” to date. The period gangster melodrama is filled with beauty shots and carefully crafted costumes and eye-grabbing locations and bursts of grand violence. It’s also his sloppiest film as a storyteller, struggling to cram as much of Dennis Lehane’s...

The post ‘Live by Night’ Review: Sleep by Cinema appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

‘Demolition’ Review: Good Grief

Philip Brown — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:00:49 +0000

Grief and movies don’t tend to go particularly well together. That’s not to say that the depressingly universal emotion is unworthy of cinematic study. However, more often than not, grief is treated in one of two ways in movies. Either it’s depicted as a lot of sullen starring into the blackness – often by a...

The post ‘Demolition’ Review: Good Grief appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

New to VUDU: Week of November 20th, 2011

Josh Zyber — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:00:11 +0000

VUDU had a slow start to November. The streaming service didn’t add too many notable titles during the first two weeks of the month. Fortunately, things pick up a bit this week, which sees several interesting new additions. The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week: ‘Amigo’ (11/22) ‘Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted...

The post New to VUDU: Week of November 20th, 2011 appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

Now Playing: Wocka Wocka! ‘The Muppets’ Are Back!

Luke Hickman — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:00:14 +0000

The Muppets have always been an eclectic little group of characters whose comedy requires an acquired taste. Given my strong review for their new movie, simply titled ‘The Muppets’, you could easily jump to the conclusion that I am and have always been part of that fan base. In reality, it’s the opposite. Aside from...

The post Now Playing: Wocka Wocka! ‘The Muppets’ Are Back! appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.