Film Review: Brendan Gleeson And Don Cheadle Buddy Up In The Dark Irish Comedy The Guard Dark Irish Comedy Finds Humor In Murder, Drugs, Blackmail And Hookers The term “black comedy” has become a bit shopworn of late, covering a wide variety of films from mildly edgy dramedies to movies [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 01, 2011 Read More
I Like To Watch (Instantly): Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction Notable Tarantino Classics From The Netflix Watch Instantly World Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut is a one-of-a-kind violent, profane, macho epic. When a discreetly-planned robbery gets botched, newcomer Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), professional [...] Ardee Napolitano \ Aug 25, 2011 Read More Reservoir Dogs
Film Review: The Mentally Ill Hit The Road In German Road Trip Dramedy Vincent Wants To Sea European Road Pic Travels Familiar Path, But Snaps A Pretty Picture A foreign accent, an eccentric cast, some gorgeous scenery and a lighthearted joie de vivre attitude about dark subjects: These are a few [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 25, 2011 Read More
Film Review: No Budget Sci-Fi Indie Another Earth Gets Sober, Speculative And Very Sad Admirable, No-Budget Sci Fi Gets Sucked In By The Gravitational Pull Of Sad Teenagers And Planet-Sized Metaphors At its best, science fiction places a mirror in front of humanity. It takes a far-fetched premise and uses that to create metaphors [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 18, 2011 Read More “Wow. It’s like a screen saver come to life.”
I Like To Watch (Instantly): Heartbreaker, Welcome Notable Romantic French Titles From The Netflix Watch Instantly World Romain Duris ( The Beat That My Heart Skipped ) and Vanessa Paradis ( The Girl on the Bridge ) star in director [...] Ardee Napolitano \ Aug 18, 2011 Read More Heartbreaker
Film Review: Bank Robbery Goes Boom In 30 Minutes Or Less Simple, Slapstick-Heavy Comedy Delivers Laughs Fast-Food-Style Recall, if you can, the moment in Robert Altman’s The Player when a bunch of crass movie studio executives sit around decrying the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 11, 2011 Read More
I Like To Watch (Instantly): Lovely, Still And Bonneville Acting-Powerhouse Sentimental Dramas From The Netflix Watch Instantly World Lovely, Still follows the life of eighty-something grocery store employee Robert (Martin Landau) as he strives to get through another Christmas by himself. [...] Ardee Napolitano \ Aug 11, 2011 Read More Burstyn and Landau see eye-to-eye
I Like To Watch (Instantly): Eat Drink Man Woman, The Road Home Notable Romantic Chinese Titles From The Netflix Watch Instantly World Long before Brokeback Mountain , Chinese director Ang Lee was making films that explore traditional society's norms and depict how people break away [...] Ardee Napolitano \ Aug 11, 2011 Read More Eat Drink Man Woman
Film Review: Director Wayne Wang Adds Historic Levels Of Sentiment To Snow Flower And The Secret Fan Wayne Wang Directs Chinese (Soap) Opera Having helmed the feature film version of The Joy Luck Club , director Wayne Wang knows a thing or two about making sentimental [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 04, 2011 Read More
I Like To Watch (Instantly): Big, Stripes Notable 1980S Comedy Titles From The Netflix Watch Instantly World A less flabby Tom Hanks stars in this lighthearted comedy about Josh Baskin, an unappreciative teenager turned into a 30-year-old man by a [...] Ardee Napolitano \ Jul 28, 2011 Read More