This week’s roundup includes reviews of the long-gestating “Top Gun” sequel, on 4K; and new Blu-ray releases: “The Good Boss,” with Javier Bardem, “The Last Romantic Lover” with Dayle Haddon, and the opera “La Traviata” with the incredible Nadine Sierra. 4K/UHD Release...
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This week’s roundup is highlighted by “Call Jane,” the politically relevant new drama about illegal abortions in America before “Roe vs. Wade,” which also alludes to what may start happening now that the Supreme Court has overturned it. In Theater/Streaming Releases of...
This week’s roundup includes several vintage titles, from “Hail Mary,” a 1985 masterpiece by Jean-Luc Godard (who died last month at age 91) at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan to a performance of “Three Tall Women,” Edward Albee’s masterly 1994 play—showcasing Martha...
This week’s roundup features the Blu-ray return of “Sex and Lucia,” the 2001 drama which made the magnificent Spanish actress Paz Vega an international star; the 4K/UHD debut of George Romero’s classic zombie flick, “Night of the Living Dead” (1968); and the...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films in theaters and/or streaming, including a tentative romance starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline, “The Good House”; a documentary about the rock group Chicago, “The Last Band on Stage”; and a sentimental...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of the Blu-ray releases of a trio of vintage films: French master Henri-Georges Clouzot’s anti-Nazi allegory, 1943’s “Le Corbeau,” from the Criterion Collection; 1940’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” from Warner Archive; and “The...
The latest Digital Week roundup leads off with the 4K release of Baz Luhrmann’s loopy “Elvis,” along with Blu-ray releases of Paul Newman’s memorable 1968 directorial debut, “Rachel Rachel,” and a violent Ukrainian war flick set during the 2014 Donbass conflict...
My latest Digital Week roundup includes two films now in theaters: “Breaking,” with John Boyega in a real-life tragedy about a desperate veteran who attempts to rob a bank; and French director Alain Resnais’ classic 1966 psychological study about Franco’s Spain, “La...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of a trio of vintage foreign films on Blu-ray, highlighted by the classic by French director Marcel Carné, 1938’s “Hôtel du Nord,” released this week by the Criterion Collection. Blu-ray Releases of the Week Hôtel du Nord...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films, including “Emily the Criminal,” which showcases a superb Aubrey Plaza, and “Le Temps perdu,” an Argentine documentary about the continuing pull of the masterly writing of French novelist Marcel Proust. In...
