Blu-rays of the Week Funny Games (Criterion) German enfant terrible Michael Haneke made this provocative, self-reflexive thriller in 1997, and its defects—obviousness, humorlessness, pointlessness—are still in glaring...
Digital Week
Digital Week – May 7th
Blu-ray of the Week All About Lily Chou-Chou (Film Movement Classics) Shunji Iwai’s often mesmerizing 2001 drama follows two boys who are huge fans of a superstar pop singer named Lily Chou-Chou: we see how music can...
Digital Week – April 30th
Blu-rays of the Week Dragged Across Concrete (Lionsgate) There are no good guys in S. Craig Zahler’s relentlessly grim and gratuitously brutal crime drama about a couple of rogue cops who get caught up in a bank robbery...
Digital Week – April 23rd
Blu-rays of the Week Diamonds of the Night (Criterion) In Jan Němec’s dazzling 1964 debut feature, two young men escape a train heading to a Nazi concentration camp during a tense and seemingly endless night. A mere 67...
Digital Week – April 16th
Blu-rays of the Week The Kid Who Would Be King (Fox) Writer-director Joe Cornish’s follow-up to his diverting 2011 mess Attack the Block is an enjoyable but overlong young adult tale about a 12-year-old missing his...
Digital Week – April 2nd
Blu-rays of the Week The Mule (Warner Bros) In Clint Eastwood’s most entertaining film in years, the octogenarian writer-director plays Earl Stone, a retiree with money problems who starts transporting drugs across...
Digital Week – March 26th
Blu-rays of the Week Aquaman (Warner Bros) Aquaman is the latest superhero to get his due onscreen, and James Wan’s overstuffed but entertaining movie runs headlong into crazily convoluted plotting about underwater...
Digital Week – March 19th
Blu-rays of the Week Spiderman—Into the Spider Verse (Sony) Winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Film, this enjoyable “alternative” Spiderman origin story follows a teenager who, after a bite by a radioactive spider...
Digital Week – March 12th
Blu-rays of the Week Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros) This sequel to J.K. Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter story (and maiden attempt at a screenplay) tracks a wizard, Newt Scamander (Eddie...
Digital Week – March 5th
Creed II (Warner Bros) In this sequel-to-cum-remake-of Creed I and Rocky IV, the son of Ivan Drago—the Russian from Rocky IV—faces off against Adonis Creed, who wants to avenge his father Apollo (who was killed in the...
Digital Week – February 26th
Blu-rays of the Week A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) Despite its acclaim, box office haul and awards, this is definitely the least of the four versions I’ve seen of the standard she-becomes-famous-while-he-goes-downhill...
Digital Week – February 19th
Blu-rays of the Week Backbeat (Shout Select) Iain Softley’s engaging 1994 biopic of Stu Sutcliffe—John Lennon’s best friend who never had real musical smarts and who got kicked out of the Beatles, died tragically of a...
