Michael Cimino’s confused neo-noir Desperate Hours receives a solid but barebones Blu-ray from MVD.
Terry Gilliam’s prescient and visionary 12 Monkeys gets a sterling UHD upgrade.
The omnipresent horror of what we so quickly understand to be happening diminishes the play’s proximity to pleasure more than it should.
The Chair too often downplays its potentially thorny political subject matter.
Time has been kind to 12 Monkeys, a compelling and unnerving genre exercise that boasts what may be Bruce Willis’s finest performance.
The tacky and loose means by which the platitudinous screenplay dances around what ails the football players is just one cog in a whirligig of pat representations.
Everything here is needlessly bloated to accommodate its status as an international, prestige production.
Craig William Macneill’s film is a sporadically frightening slow burn with a fatally overlong fuse.
This is an irritating table-setting episode in which the characters constantly explain how the pieces fit together.
All the central characters have moments here in which they, for all intents and purposes, might well be dead.
Those familiar with Les Blank’s malleable approach to documentary production will recognize that energy in its nascent form.
For a story so unconventional, it’s executed without director Alexandre Aja’s typical commitment to anarchic awe.
The film’s offbeat aesthetic largely flaunts for appeal, suffocating character and thematic ambition underneath its flashiness.
Life pours out of Treme and, like all good things, the series ends with equal parts rage and love in its bombastic heart.
The zombies twitch, leap, gnash, and destroy, but the film has all the thrill and surprise of a model U.N. summit.
Disney draws a big fat bullseye on the fast-growing infertile-couple demographic with this airless misfire.
Collaborator’s banter is playful and brazenly self-aware, but its ideas are more than a little stale.
HBO gives the superb second season of David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s post-Katrina drama an excellent transfer.
Festivals are strange and wonderful environments.
The show is as much a celebration of New Orleans’s spirit as it is a depiction of the struggle to keep that spirit afloat.