The drop-dead perfect final lines from Billy Wilder‘s Double Indemnity (45), a remastered version of which Universal Home Video is releasing on 8.22. It looks improved — richer, crisper tones and fewer speckles than on the old cruddy version that Uni issued in ’98 — but so many scenes are shot in shadowy darkness it can’t possibly gleam like shiny silver. Great audio commentaries and retrospective doc, though.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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