The reset that follows Nicolas Brody’s death in Iran at the end of season three may save Homeland from ignominy.
This is a Hollywood-delivered chronicle of the immigrant experience that earns its justification through good will and tact.
And the jury’s still very much out over whether Shawn Levy is an inept comedy director masquerading as an opportunistically dramatic one, or vice versa.
The story wisely focuses on the cast’s worn-in and jazzy repartee and expresses a perfectly modulated sense of self-awareness.
The latest collaboration between director Jaume Collet-Serra and star Liam Neeson is made with far more care and visual detail than you might expect.
As an adaptation of Davis Sedaris’s short essay from his acclaimed 1997 compilation, Naked, it’s a letdown, as it doesn’t exude the pop of the author’s trademark humor.
The film comes to Blu-ray armed with a superb A/V transfer and a solid packing of extras from Universal.
This is an unbelievably silly movie, with a script that must eventually come to terms with the fact that it’s just another globetrotting spy caper.
Stoking one’s cynicism over this category is the very real probability that Jonah Hill will be an Oscar nominee.
Fable-like, if not exactly fabulous, Midnight in Paris gets shoved onto shelves in a barebones edition from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Part of its charm derives from how its concept takes audiences, like its main character, by surprise.
Scarlett Johansson is so comfortable on stage that it’s hard to believe that this is her Broadway debut.
Eventually the interviews open out beyond these rigidly structured segments, seeping over into the territory of the characters’ daily lives.