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Cannes Journal: The Shining in 4k

Jason Gorber — Wed, 29 May 2019 17:00:30 +0000

For three years running, Warner Bros. has promoted a new restoration as part of the “Cannes Classics” series. These screenings take place in the Debussy, the second largest (and preferred) theater of the palais complex. With 900 seats, it’s a true temple to cinema, with particularly exceptional sound reproduction. The screenings are treated as premieres,...

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Now Streaming: Filmworker

Josh Zyber — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:00:19 +0000

Stanley Kubrick had a reputation as a demanding perfectionist, to put it lightly. Of all the people who worked with him over the decades, perhaps none experienced the true extent of the filmmaker’s obsessive compulsions more fully than Kubrick’s longtime personal assistant, Leon Vitali – the subject of the 2017 documentary Filmworker, now available on...

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Cannes Journal: ‘2001’ in 70mm

Jason Gorber — Mon, 14 May 2018 19:00:46 +0000

What can be said about one of the most wondrous films ever made? How about that one hated it the first time he saw it? Screened on VHS on a 20″ Trinitron, the only thing I knew about ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was that the people behind ‘Star Wars’ were obsessed with it. I’d learn...

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‘Operation Avalanche’ Review: A Space Mockery

Philip Brown — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:00:50 +0000

If nothing else, Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson is one clever SOB. The writer/director/star of the cult comedy web series ‘Nirvana the Band the Show’ and the rather brilliant school shooting flick ‘The Dirties’ already has a very clear and distinct voice early in his career, backed by deep affection for the medium. His latest film,...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 30th, 2014 – Monkey See, Monkey Buy

Josh Zyber — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:00:24 +0000

We hope that our readers had a nice Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends. Did you brave the Black Friday retail crowds this year? Sadly, the long weekend is now over and it’s time to get back to work. Fortunately, a few interesting new Blu-ray releases await us this week. New Releases ‘Dawn of the...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst Stephen King Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:00:07 +0000

With the author’s new novel ‘Doctor Sleep’ on bookstore shelves and a remake of ‘Carrie’ in movie theaters this weekend, this seems like a good time to do a Roundtable about the best and worst movies based on the writings of Stephen King. Either movies adapted from Stephen King novels, or movies for which Stephen...

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Netflix Watch: Room at the End of the House

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:00:32 +0000

Still slogging through my Netflix queue of recommendations, I continue my search for some spooky fun to celebrate this Halloween season. This week, I stumbled onto one horribly stupid teen thriller, but also discovered a surprisingly amusing documentary. ‘House at the End of the Street’ Jennifer Lawrence turns in a good performance as a very...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best Movie Opening Scenes

Josh Zyber — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:00:42 +0000

We went negative with last week’s Roundtable topic about worst movie endings. This week, let’s turn that around to talk about movies that had truly great opening scenes that really grabbed us right from the start. Shannon Nutt This week’s topic was an easy one for me. Nothing, and I mean nothing, tops the opening...

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Weekend Roundtable: Famous Last Films

Josh Zyber — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:00:21 +0000

Director Steven Soderbergh claims that he’s retiring and that this week’s release of ‘Side Effects’ will be his last theatrical feature. For today’s Roundtable, we look at other famous examples where a director or an actor’s final film (whether due to death or retirement) was a particularly fitting (or not fitting) way to go out....

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Blu-ray Highlights for October 23rd, 2012 – Four Score and Seven Vamps Ago

Josh Zyber — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:00:30 +0000

In this week’s Blu-ray releases, we learn that not all politicians are blood-sucking monsters – even if most of them are. Also, Tyler Perry puts on a dress (again) while Channing Tatum rips all his clothes off. New Releases With a title like ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter‘, you should know what you’re getting into. Nonetheless,...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Ghost Stories

Josh Zyber — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:00:21 +0000

Is August a particularly spooky time of year? Perhaps not, but Warner Bros. and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment have chosen to release the supernatural thriller ‘The Apparition’ now anyway. This got us to thinking about some of our favorite cinematic ghost stories. Won’t you share some of yours in this week’s Roundtable? Before anyone...

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Blu-ray Highlights for July 3rd, 2012 – Amber Waves, Purple Mountains and All That Jazz

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:00:21 +0000

It’s a holiday week here in the United States, but not a gift-giving holiday. The home video studios have cut back the Blu-ray release slate to a minimum. Even within that, however, are a handful of titles to keep your eyes on. New Releases The week only has one notable new release, the appropriately titled...

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