A BIT OF CRUMPET WITH MARK SEARBY
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Everybody, at some point in their life, has seen an Alfred Hitchcock movie. He made…
WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN DECEMBER
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN DECEMBER: WALLACE & GROMIT, TERRIFIER 3, SEINFELD, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Wallace & Gromit: The…
THE BRUTALIST
Every rare now and then, a performance comes along that is so organic and natural that even though one is familiar with the actor all memories of his other work recede. That’s how I felt watching Adrien Brody in The…
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: MY FAVORITE FILM OF THE YEAR
Biographical films are a minefield, but A Complete Unknown dodges every trap and emerges as my favorite movie of 2024. No one is more surprised than I, because I’ve never been a Bob Dylan fan… but Timothée Chalamet delivers a compelling…
MARIA
The overuse of the word “iconic” has rendered it practically meaningless, but if it ever applied to a public figure it would be opera star Maria Callas. Director Pablo Larrain, having focused on two other notable women of the…
DAY OF THE FIGHT
What ever happened to genre movies? Hollywood thrived on westerns, musicals, gangster stories, hospital dramas, whodunits and the like until television consumed almost every category. The Day of the Fight isn’t trying to rewrite the playbook. It’s a boxing picture, and…
EMILIA PÉREZ: UNIQUE AND AMAZING
Phrases like “game-changer” and “cutting-edge” can’t capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is. I daresay it wouldn’t or couldn’t have been made, or even conceived, just ten years ago. (Maybe five…) I am determined to praise and discuss it…
