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‘Split<\/strong>‘ \u2013 2015’s ‘The Visit’ started M. Night Shyamalan on the path to redemption, but still proved divisive among viewers. His latest thriller was more widely hailed as a return-to-form for a filmmaker who’d let his career go off the rails for far too long. James McAvoy takes on a very show-offy role as a mentally ill man who allegedly has 23 separate personalities, at least one of whom likes to kidnap young girls. Anya Taylor-Joy from ‘The Witch’ is his latest victim. Although mental health advocates didn’t much care for Shyamalan’s portrayal or demonization of a serious issue, the movie had mostly positive reviews from critics and was a huge box office hit. Let’s see if Shyamalan can keep up the momentum with his next project. <\/p>\n‘The Founder<\/strong>‘ \u2013 Michael Keaton stars in a bio-pic about Ray Kroc, the shrewd businessman who purchased a small-time hamburger chain called McDonald’s and launched it into a worldwide fast food empire. Kroc’s tactics for doing so may not have exactly been fair to the original owners. Reportedly, the script for the film about him started out as an interesting deconstruction of the bio-pic genre that attracted the attention of the Coen brothers. Unfortunately, when they proved unavailable, the eventual product was watered down by the Weinstein Company and director John Lee Hancock (of ‘The Blind Side’ and ‘Saving Mr. Banks’). Audiences had little interest.<\/p>\n‘Sleepless<\/strong>‘ \u2013 Remade from a 2011 French film called ‘Nuit blanche’ (‘Sleepless Night’), Jamie Foxx plays an undercover cop who has a very bad night when his son is kidnapped by mobsters. Despite negligible advertising, the movie somehow did $20 million at the domestic box office, which was a lot better than expected (it far outgrossed Ben Affleck’s gangster flop ‘Live by Night’) but still a failure for something that cost $30 million to make. Reviews were overwhelmingly negative.<\/p>\nCatalog Titles<\/h2>\n
Beware Frank the Bunny! Richard Kelly’s surreal cult gem ‘Donnie Darko<\/strong>‘ was released in a pretty unimpressive Blu-ray back in 2010. Arrow Video attempts to rectify that with a new 4k restoration. Like the previous disc, both the original theatrical cut and the much-inferior Director’s Cut are included, along with three audio commentaries which all suggest that Kelly didn’t much understand the movie he made. Stick with the theatrical cut. <\/p>\nAssuming that Amazon’s release dates are all correct, also on Arrow’s docket this week are the 1961 Italian crime thriller ‘The Assassin<\/strong>‘ (starring Marcello Mastroianni), as well as a pair of giallo shockers with the fanciful titles ‘The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave<\/strong>‘ and ‘The Red Queen Kills Seven Times<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nThe Criterion Collection brings us George Stevens’ marvelous screwball comedy ‘Woman of the Year<\/strong>‘, which marked the first pairing (both professionally and romantically) of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. In addition to that, Criterion reteams with director Wim Wenders on his Oscar nominated musical documentary ‘Buena Vista Social Club<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nSony celebrates the 25th anniversary of Penny Marshall’s period baseball dramedy ‘A League of Their Own<\/strong>‘<\/p>\nDistributing for GKIDS, Universal offers Studio Ghibli’s animated romantic drama ‘Ocean Waves<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nKino digs up a couple more classics with the 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell to Arms<\/strong>‘ and the 1950 James Stewart Western ‘Broken Arrow<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nHoping to capitalize on the impending Hulu remake, Shout! Factory unearths the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian drama ‘The Handmaid’s Tale<\/strong>‘. Sadly, the story’s subject matter is relevant again in the current political climate. <\/p>\nThe latest piece of schlock to get the Collector’s Edition treatment from Scream Factory is the 1995 horror omnibus ‘Tales from the Hood<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nTelevision<\/h2>\n
The TV scene is a little slow this week, bringing only the respective second seasons of PBS’ ‘Home Fires<\/strong>‘ and Syfy’s ‘Killjoys<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nMy $.02<\/h2>\n
My top two titles of the week are ‘Donnie Darko’ and ‘Woman of the Year’. I’ll also put ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ on my wish list for later and will rent ‘Split’ at some point. <\/p>\n
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That adorable Easter Bunny has deposited his rainbow-colored eggs and hopped away back from whence he came. With the holiday weekend over, a much darker and scarier rabbit arrives via Blu-ray this week. Let’s take a look at that and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":84351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[67,6375,9524,666,2357,9525,2238,194,9360,9369,9366,9523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84347"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86087,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84347\/revisions\/86087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}