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NYFF Journal: The Irishman

Jason Gorber — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:22 +0000

With a running time of just under 3 ½ hours, I’m less time away from The Irishman writing this review than it took to watch the film, yet even in these moments following the first screening, it feels like if I’ve witnessed something truly special. In a year where numerous movies feel like the culmination...

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TIFF Journal: Joker

Jason Gorber — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:00:21 +0000

Midway through Joker, Joaquin Phoenix dances as he traipses down a New York staircase, and the soundtrack pounds to “Rock and Roll Part 2,” an anthem played at almost every sports arena for decades. The song’s performer, Gary Glitter, was charged multiple times in the 1980s and ’90s for child porn, abuse, and attempted rape....

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The Crazy Eighties: Angel Heart

Josh Zyber — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:00:04 +0000

From the kiddie gangster spoof Bugsy Malone to the school musical Fame to the acid trip extravagance of Pink Floyd: The Wall, British director Alan Parker had one of the most eclectic careers in filmmaking. His sleazy horror thriller Angel Heart may not have been much of a success in 1987, but thanks to one...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 9th, 2018 – Minty Fresh

Josh Zyber — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:00:01 +0000

Considering how frequently we hear dire news about the market for physical media dying, it sure doesn’t seem like the volume of new Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases has slowed down at all. Quite the opposite, actually. This week brings another huge batch of discs to sort through. Admittedly, not many of this week’s releases...

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Off the Shelf: Ronin

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:00:02 +0000

Although it wasn’t much of a box office smash back in 1998, John Frankenheimer’s action thriller Ronin eventually became a cult hit on video, largely due to its terrific car chases. The film has been released on Blu-ray twice to date – first by MGM in 2009 and then in 2017 as a remastered Special...

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‘The Comedian’ Review: Former King of Comedy Dies on Stage

Philip Brown — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:00:02 +0000

Remember in 2015 when Al Pacino made that embarrassing comedy ‘Danny Collins’ in which he played an aging rock star learning how to love again? No? Doesn’t surprise me. It was terrible. I wish I could forget it too. Anyhoo, now Robert De Niro has made an unofficial sequel about an aging comedian who learns...

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‘Hands of Stone’ Review: Head of Air

Philip Brown — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:00:09 +0000

‘Hands of Stone’, Hollywood’s latest uninspired boxing melodrama, is a big, long, sweeping affair. Robert De Niro has a supporting role, just in case anyone considers that a selling point anymore. What is it about boxing that seems to fascinate filmmakers to no end? I’m sure the one-two masterpiece whammy of ‘Rocky’ and ‘Raging Bull’...

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‘Dirty Grandpa’ Review: Bad De Niro, Very Bad De Niro

Philip Brown — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:00:00 +0000

‘Dirty Grandpa’ is a flat-out horrible movie. Stale, unfunny and offensive in unintentional ways, it’s the nadir of the contemporary R-rated comedy. The pain of sitting through this nonsense is made substantially worse by the fact that Robert De Niro, the Raging Bull himself, is somehow involved. Now, it’s certainly not uncommon for De Niro...

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‘Joy’ Review: Messy Tale of Mop Maven

Philip Brown — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:00:02 +0000

‘Joy’ is above all else an ambitious movie. It’s writer/director David O. Russell’s ode to the plight of independent women, the struggle of outsiders, the necessary pain of family, the battle to innovate, the corruptions of the business world, and a modern fable about the American dream. Plus, it has a dozen or so other...

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‘Heist’ (2015) Review: Why?

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:00:47 +0000

With a title as generic as ‘Heist’, you know you’re in for a rough watch (unless it’s David Mamet’s ‘Heist’, which sadly is not the case today). This is a film so tediously lame and formulaic that it should grace only the very bottom of truck stop DVD bins. One day it will. Somehow, the...

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‘The Intern’ Review: Interminable and Inconceivable

Philip Brown — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:00:51 +0000

Stale, safe and manipulative, ‘The Intern’ is the cinematic equivalent of an exhausted sigh from a collection of filmmakers and actors who just don’t seem to care about what they’re doing. It’s a movie that exists based on a lazy pitch that probably went something like this: “What if an old guy was an intern...

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The Trailer Park: Full of Laughter and Tears

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:00:37 +0000

A trio of legendary performers demonstrate they still have what it takes to make moviegoers laugh and cry. Now in their golden years, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro promise to make this a heartfelt summer to remember. ‘Manglehorn’ Even in his worst films, Al Pacino has always been a powerhouse actor, a...

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