It’s another dismal week for the smaller scale DVD releases and the big releases aren’t much to write home about either (the best of the lot is Hancock). Rather than skip the column altogether, I thought I’d go back and pick through the MYMHM columns since they started last June and reprint some of the [...]
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So you find yourself on an elevator with a drunk and lonely Audrey Tautou…
After a couple of bum weeks with little in the way of decent under-the-radar DVD releases, the calendar finally rallies in the middle of November. Besides the high profile WALL-E and Tropic Thunder, the coming Tuesday brings an armload of solid documentaries plus [...]
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There hasn’t been a lot of exciting activity in the Movies You May Have Missed DVD department the last couple of weeks. Eagle-eyed readers will note I skipped the column entirely last Saturday. Transsiberian anyone? No? I didn’t think so.
This week brings Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a good movie but it doesn’t quite meet [...]
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Anthony DeMarco in Jake’s Closet
Like the recent Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, writer/director Shelli Ryan’s feature debut Jake’s Closet takes a segment of the horror genre, in this case zombies, and uses it to explore the traumas of childhood. While not as literary or effective as the terrific Tomas Alfredson film, it [...]
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Brian Cox in Red
With another DVD new release Tuesday around the corner, here’s a look at some of films you may have missed when they played in theaters.
Red *** 1/2
This little low-budget number snuck in and out of theaters at the tail end of an exhausting summer season. It’s a simple, pulpy tale about a [...]
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There’s only one new DVD release that makes LiC’s list of Movies You May Have Missed this week and I haven’t seen it either.
Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)
The first French-language picture from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien (City of Sadness, Millenium Mambo, Three Times) is an homage to Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short The Red Balloon. Juliette [...]
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Anamaria Marinca in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Forget about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, there’s a solid crop of DVDs coming out this week that didn’t quite hog so much attention but deserved to. Needless to say, there isn’t a single flying refrigerator among them.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 [...]
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Gabe Nevins in Gus Van Sant’s moody Paranoid Park
This week’s Movies You May Have Missed features a solid line-up of three films that get 3 1/2 stars from LiC. Since these are all scheduled for DVD release on Tuesday, now is the time to readjust your Netflix queue.
Paranoid Park (2008) *** 1/2
Though I haven’t seen [...]
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Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies
This week you should really be renting Paul Newman movies, but if you simply must see something new, here’s our weekly look at the Movies You May Have Missed coming to DVD on Tuesday.
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008) ****
First up is one [...]
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A giant among children, Danny McBride teachesThe Foot Fist Way
It’s not the best week for undiscovered DVD releases, but this is definitely a Movie You May Have Missed.
The Foot Fist Way (2008) ***
Danny McBride made a pretty big splash this summer with high-profile appearances in both Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder, but he landed on [...]
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Young love: Michael Angarano and Olivia Thirlby in Snow Angels
Movies You May Have Missed is a little unusual this week in that it includes a failed summer tentpole film and a trio of classic French films in addition to the usual arthouse fare. So, put on your helmet and driving gloves and fasten your seatbelt, [...]
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Settling into its Saturday slot, it’s time for Movies You May Have Missed, the weekly look at upcoming DVDs of smaller movies that you may never have gotten around to seeing or that skipped your neighborhood entirely. There’s just one pick this week.
The Fall (2008) ***
Lee Pace (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, TV’s Pushing Daisies) [...]
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Rachel McAdams is the other woman and Chris Cooper
is the unfaithful husband in Married Life
It’s a solid week for Movies You May Have Missed. Here are a few more below-radar films that are coming to DVD on Tuesday.
Reprise (2006) ****
Here’s a great movie that I never got around to reviewing, but this is what I [...]
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“I want a pet monkey. A spider monkey…a pet.” - David Lynch in Lynch
It’s a slow weekend for news and I’m a long way off from having something more substantial to post so here’s an early look at some Movies You May Have Missed that are coming to DVD on Tuesday.
Lynch (2007) *** 1/2
Here’s what [...]
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With its first batch of Blu-ray DVDs set to hit store shelves, classic cinema and home video god The Criterion Collection has updated its FAQ to address a few consumer concerns.
The biggest issue for most folks will likely be whether to buy a standard DVD or wait for the Blu-ray. Criterion of course says you should buy now, [...]
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