Drama Phil Bacharach
In an age of cinema jammed with reboots, remakes and raunch, it's a welcome revelation to come across the heartfelt Your Sister's Sister on Blu-ray and DVD, in which low-budget indie meets comedy of manners.
Comedy Rod Lott
If only Oklahoma Gazette classified ads were this intriguing:
"Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll
get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only
done this once before. Safety not guaranteed."
Comedy Rod Lott
In any other year but an election year, I’d like to think The Campaign
would have been a bigger hit. It's certainly funny; it's also certainly
too close to the truth: American politics is a game of money.
Comedy Rod Lott
If movies could be drug-tested, The Phynx would be in big
trouble. The 1970 comedy is not just an obscurity, but an oddity, like a
hallucinogenic brew mixed by Peter Max and Hanna-Barbera. Newly rescued
from Nowheresville by Warner Archive, the film is a spy spoof on the goofball level of Get Smart — in spirit, that is, not creatively.
Horror Rod Lott
After four previous films (when you factor in the American Quarantine versions), is there life left in Spain's zombie found-footage franchise? [REC] 3: Genesis responds with a festive "¡Si!"
Horror Rod Lott
While cleaning a widow’s basement, college student Kyle (Aaron Dean
Eisenberg) finds a dusty coffin. Smelling a big eBay sale, he takes it
home to clean it up and finds that’s it no ordinary box for bones, but a
padded that conceals an intricate system of gears and a built-in music
box, not to mention a key dated 1452.
Horror Rod Lott Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast
is unlike any film I’ve ever seen. Before that works you into frenzied
anticipation, please note that’s only because it has the most convoluted
DVD menu in history.
Drama Rod Lott
Please believe me when I say that my dislike for Magic Mike has nothing to do with being heterosexual. It has everything
to do with mediocre acting and a mess of a script. And I say this as
one of the civilized nation’s biggest Steven Soderbergh’s apologists who
will defend the goodness of Haywire and Contagion to the point of fisticuffs if we must.
In an intoxicating performance worthy of awards attention, Mary Elizabeth Winstead gets 'Smashed.'
Drama Rod Lott
In a short career largely dominated with genre films — from Final Destination 3 to this past summer’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter —
Mary Elizabeth Winstead always has exuded a certain something. But
nothing that ever suggested the level of performance she delivers in Smashed.