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Under the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden’
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden” Big blockbuster movies often seem to spawn lesser knockoffs in their wake. Such is the case with...
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is filmmaking in real time
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – Most journalists are used to working in real time and seeing the earth shift beneath their feet even as their stories are developing. Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow That’s what...
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Movie review: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ seeks complex story behind the headlines
Jessica Chastain If “Zero Dark Thirty” were merely an action thriller, it would be remarkable in that even though the whole world knows the deadly outcome, it’s still incredibly suspenseful. But as...
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Kathryn Bigelow identified with tough women behind bin Laden manhunt
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – Kathryn Bigelow is accustomed to moving with ease, grace and confidence through what is essentially a man’s world. In Hollywood, and especially in the realm of tough,...
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Under the Radar DVD of the Week: ’30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the...
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil” With Marlon Wayans’ freewheeling horror spoof “A Haunted House” now in theaters, the usual...
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Movie review: ‘Chasing Ice’ shows stark visual aspect of inconvenient truth
The 2006 Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” presented its arguments on the terrible realities of global warming in methodical, statistical and academic terms, following its professorial...
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Parsing the memorable mathematics of movies
Prisoner 24601 If you’ve recently experienced the extravagant big-screen adaption of the theatrical pop-opera “Les Miserables,” you’re likely to be walking around with a nagging numerical nugget...
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Under the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis’
This week, the oddest DVD on release lists is: “Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis” A running show-business joke for many decades has honed in on the French regard for Jerry Lewis as a comic genius,...
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Movie review: Documentary reveals profound failure of U.S. ‘war on drugs’
In the four-plus decades since President Nixon launched the so-called “war on drugs,” declaring illegal street drugs a national scourge, the U.S. has spent about $1 trillion on anti-drug campaigns and...
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Book serves up rousing, uncritical celebration of John Wayne’s legend
From a book authorized by John Wayne Enterprises, you certainly can’t expect a warts-and-all expose of a big, rambunctious, politically conservative movie icon who stomped on more than a few toes in...
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Blu-ray review: ‘End of Watch’ a heart-pounding cops-eye-view of life on...
Writer-director David Ayer’s “End of Watch” is even tougher and more realistically brutal than “Training Day,” his 2001 Antoine Fuqua-helmed screenplay about a thoroughly dirty narcotics cop working...
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‘Enlightened’— The Complete First Season
The first episode of the first season of “Enlightened” doesn’t begin promisingly for ambitious corporate executive Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern) when work pressures and her own self-destructive nature...
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DVD reviews: Warner Bros. adds to film noir collection –‘Scene of the...
Warner Bros. Archive Collection adds three new titles to its film noir series, the best of which is “Scene of the Crime” (1949), with Van Johnson cast in the role of a hard-boiled cop out to avenge the...
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Under the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed...
This week, the oddest DVD on release lists is: “The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series” A quirky comic creation that made its way from late-night to Saturday-morning...
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Fly Fishing Film Tour schedules stop in Oklahoma City
The schedule for the 2013 edition of the Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) has been released, and this year Oklahoma anglers will no longer have to journey to neighboring states to sample the newest works...
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Oscar-nominated ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ renews singer-songwriter’s career
BY GENE TRIPLETT His was an urban legend that spread from the dingy riverside bars of Detroit to the other side of the globe, where his songs became anthems for the anti-apartheid people of South...
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Under the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens’
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens” With Tudor England and medieval Europe’s bloody history of battles and political intrigue, cunning and...
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DVD/Blu-ray review: ‘Best of Warner Bros.’ 90th Anniversary Collections
Last year, Universal and Paramount celebrated their centennial years with a deluge of deluxe packagings, repackagings and restorations of their greatest screen hits on DVD and Blu-ray, but Warner...
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Lavish biography offers telling glimpse of early Hollywood royalty
Not only was she Hollywood’s first female matinee idol and the darling of audiences everywhere (dubbed “America’s Sweetheart”), Mary Pickford was also a savvy and ambitious movie mogul who helped...
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Movie review: ‘Identity Thief’ steals plot from old road-trip formula
Set a straight-laced family man off on a cross-country journey with a mercurial mischief maker and you have the thoroughly predictable template for “Identity Thief,” an R-rated, knockabout road picture...
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