Fish Tank<\/a>‘ writer\/director Andrea Arnold delivers a nearly three-hour character study of a wayward teen girl who runs wild with a traveling crew of magazine sales scam artists led by Shia LaBeouf. The film has been praised for its performances (yes, even LaBeouf) and observant attention to characters on the fringes of society. However, a common complaint is that the story meanders badly and would play a lot better if trimmed of an hour off the running time.<\/p>\n‘In a Valley of Violence<\/strong>‘ \u2013 Normally known as a horror filmmaker, Ti West (‘The House of the Devil’, ‘The Innkeepers’) tries his hand at a Spaghetti Western homage. Ethan Hawke stars as a mystery man who seeks revenge after his dog is murdered. (Wait, isn’t that the plot of ‘John Wick’?) John Travolta is the town marshal whose son is the main target of that revenge. Both reviews and viewer word-of-mouth were heavily mixed.<\/p>\n‘The Dressmaker<\/strong>‘ \u2013 A different sort of Western homage finds Kate Winslet returning to a rural Australian town to exact revenge on the locals who did her wrong many years earlier by\u2026 introducing them to haute couture fashion? I can only hope this makes more sense on the screen than the plot summary reads. <\/p>\n‘Dog Eat Dog<\/strong>‘ \u2013 In his latest direct-to-video flop, Nicolas Cage stars with Willem Dafoe as a couple of numbskull criminals who get wrapped up in a baby-napping plot that goes terribly wrong. Once-respected filmmaker Paul Schrader’s career has been in the toilet almost as badly as Cage’s for a while now, so I suppose it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to see them hitching their wagons and going down together. (This is already their second DTV collaboration.)<\/p>\nCatalog Titles<\/h2>\n
How has the dopey ‘Underworld<\/strong>‘ franchise possibly lasted six<\/s>five movies? In preparation for the latest sequel that will hit theater screens in January, Sony has reissued the four previous entries. Oddly, only the first movie has been remastered for an Ultra HD 4k edition, while only the third (the one without Kate Beckinsale) gets one of those hideous Pop Art SteelBooks at Best Buy. <\/p>\nMy $.02<\/h2>\n
I’ll probably give ‘Snowden’ a chance when it hits HBO, but I don’t plan to spend any money this week. Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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