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Jun. 13.

Greenberg [Blu-ray] (2010)

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Greenberg [Blu-ray]

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Greenberg aims to recapture the raw flavor and psychological acuity of 1970s character portraits like Five Easy Pieces–but the character in question is completely of the moment. Neurotic and anxious Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) comes to L.A. to stay in his brother’s house, where he reconnects with old bandmates and falls, with painful awkwardness, into a relationship with his brother’s personal assistant, Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig, sweetheart of the “mumblecore” movement). But this movie is not about plot–it’s about human frailty and finding a moral or spiritual significance in caring for a dog or driving someone on an errand. Stiller sheds his usual bag of twitchy tricks and conveys the brittle spirit of a man defeated by his own intelligence. Gerwig has an odd, hapless charm; she makes aimlessness appealing. As a romance, the movie falters–while it’s obvious why Roger would be attracted to Florence’s youth and vulnerability, it’s less clear why Floren (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Our Family Wedding [Blu-ray] (2010)

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Our Family Wedding [Blu-ray]

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Can love really conquer all–including the biggest alpha dads in the universe? That’s what the adorable young couple in Our Family Wedding gets to find out. The couple, played winningly by Lance Gross (Marcus) and America Ferrera (Lucia), are so deeply in love that they never realized the possible backlash of their respective dads, Brad (the always-compelling Forrest Whitaker) and Miguel (standup comic Carlos Mencia). While similar, earlier films like Guess Who’s Coming Together played off black and white racial prejudices, Our Family Wedding tackles black and Latino prejudices, which make up the bulk of the plot and the dialogue (the film also takes on class differences; the African-American family is quite wealthy, while the Hispanic one is working class). Our Family Wedding is crisply directed by Rick Famuyiwa, at a mere 90 minutes, and he manages to pack a lot of Dad vs. Dad antagonism into the festivities, leavening the arch with some decent belly laughs (more…)

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Jun. 13.

City Island [Blu-ray] (2009)

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City Island [Blu-ray]

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City Island is chock-full of the simple pleasures to be gleaned from a warm, generous, and skillful script, performed with humor and charisma by a talented cast. Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia, Ocean’s Eleven) is a prison guard–or “corrections officer,” as he prefers–and has a family full of secrets: his son has some atypical desires and his daughter has been kicked out of school, while his wife Joyce (Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife) is powerfully attracted to the hunky young ex-con on parole that Vince has brought to stay with them. But Vince has some potent secrets of his own, including taking acting classes. He tells Joyce he’s playing poker, which leads her to believe he’s having an affair–and when she meets his acting partner (Emily Mortimer, Lovely and Amazing), she thinks her fears are confirmed. This plot could easily have been melodramatic or sentimental, but thanks to the relaxed and confident guiding hand of writer-director Raymond De Felitta and t (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Circle of Iron [Blu-ray] (1978)

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Circle of Iron [Blu-ray]

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Bruce Lee and James Coburn conceived the story for this unusual blend of fantasy, martial arts adventure, and Zen mysticism that should please cult-movie collectors and action aficionados with a taste for the offbeat. The bland but serviceable Jeff Cooper stars as a lone warrior who sets out to find the mysterious Book of All Knowledge. He faces numerous physical challenges on his journey, chief among them David Carradine in four roles (including a half-man, half-monkey), as well as numerous philosophical conundrums. While the dialogue by Sterling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night) and Stanley Mann (Eye of the Needle) occasionally teeters into self-parody, the action and pace rarely lags, and the fine supporting cast, which includes Christopher Lee, Eli Wallach, and Roddy McDowall, lends a degree of gravity to the proceedings. One wonders how the film would have played with Lee in the cast (it had been a pet project of his for years, but was completed year (more…)

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Jun. 13.

I Am Love [Blu-ray] (2010)

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I Am Love [Blu-ray]

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This movie is like eating bonbons in a hothouse. For some films, walking the fine line between sublime and silly becomes an entertainment in itself, and such is the case with I Am Love, Luca Guadagnino’s lush drama set within an Italian business dynasty in Milan. We see much of the film from the perspective of an outsider who has nevertheless fitted herself into this aristocratic world for many years: Emma, the Russian-born wife of the textile company’s new CEO. She’s played by Tilda Swinton, whose customarily penetrating work is enhanced by her speaking Russian and Italian (how does she do it?). The Russian heritage might be a tip-off–Emma could have a touch of Anna Karenina about her–because she embarks on a grand affair with a much younger man. The many levels of melodrama play out against gorgeous exteriors and wildly overdressed interiors, as though Guadagnino looked back through Italian film heritage and decided it was time for someone to out-do the o (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Hans Werner Henze: Ondine – featuring the Royal Ballet [Blu-ray] (2009)

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Hans Werner Henze: Ondine - featuring the Royal Ballet [Blu-ray]

Miyako Yoshida dances the title role originally created for Margot Fonteyn in the hauntingly beautiful underwater world of Ondine, vividly brought to life by The Royal Ballet. Frederick Ashton’s shimmering choreography, Lila de Nobili’s impressionistic designs and Hans Werner Henze’s specially commissioned, vibrant and inventive score, memorably combine to evoke the many moods and colours of the sea. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.

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Jun. 13.

Casino Jack and the United States of Money [Blu-ray] (2010)

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Casino Jack and the United States of Money [Blu-ray]

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As he proved in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney knows how to transform creative bookkeeping into compelling drama without dumbing things down. In his follow-up to Gonzo, a portrait of rabble-rouser Hunter S. Thompson, Gibney takes on disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff (Stanley Tucci provides his voice in readings). Gibney begins with the Mob-style murder of a one-time associate before backtracking to Abramoff’s days as chairman of the College Republicans, where he rubbed shoulders with Karl Rove and Ralph Reed–and impressed Ronald Reagan. Even as a student, however, there were signs of trouble as he laundered money through charities, a pattern he would repeat throughout the decades, always on the lookout for new loopholes. Gibney proceeds through his dealings with the Contras, an Angolan dictator, Saipan sweatshops, and Indian casinos (the debacle in Angola led him to produce the right-wing shoot-’em-up Red Scorpion (more…)

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Jun. 13.

My Name is Khan [Blu-ray] (2010)

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Jun. 13.

Repo! The Genetic Opera [Blu-ray] (2008)

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Repo! The Genetic Opera [Blu-ray]

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Likening Repo! The Genetic Opera to its predecessors, Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show, conveys this film’s high camp and operatic bursts of song, but does little to describe how absolutely bizarre Repo! is. Like Rocky Horror, Repo! was written for stage performance by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, who stars as a Graverobber, dolled up in vampiric makeup to resemble Rocky Horror’s iconic tranny, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Hiring newbie director, Darren Lynn Bousman, fresh out of film school to shoot this mutant movie, Smith and Zdunich clearly focused on writing comedy into extremely gruesome slasher scenes, which works with mixed results. Stills of comic strips contextualize each scene, telling the story of biotech corporation Geneco’s repossessions of organs that they implanted into various patients to save human lives during a long history of operations. Organs, here, were bought on credit, and as the economy nosedives, citizens of (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Repo Men [Blu-ray] (2010)

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Repo Men [Blu-ray]

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In the future, artificial internal organs will be widely available, but their high cost will lead to a thriving, if bloody, repossession business–at least that’s the idea in Repo Men, whose title characters must carry scalpels, and not scruples. When clients default–and, at 19 percent interest rates, it happens all the time–it’s up to Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker), the two most swashbuckling field operatives at the Union company, to reclaim the merchandise. The film’s reviewers largely seemed to miss the wicked humor that underlies Repo Men’s kooky futuristic world, as Remy’s domestic situation is portrayed with typical backyard barbecues and typical nagging wife who wants hubby to ask his boss about that promotion, already. Everything’s amusingly typical, that is, except for the fact that Remy regularly charges into people’s apartments and grabs their kidneys. It would be nice to report that director Miguel Sapochnik was able to maintain the (more…)

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