I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of February 26
It is one hell of a week in home entertainment, people. Oscar nominees aplenty! No reason to leave home even one time this week. Woot! Click the film title for…read more →
Archive For February, 2018
Fearless Oscar Predictions Here!
Rarely is the Oscar ticket quite so easy to fill out. This year’s set of nominees offers more clear-cut front runners across the board than most previous broadcasts, but the…read more →
The Screening Room: Funny Business, Serious Business
Some laughs and some gasps, but a trio of fine films to choose from this weekend: Annihilation, Game Night and In the Fade. Plus, we talk through the good, bad…read more →
The Fault in Our Selves
Annihilation by George Wolf Alex Garland’s work as both a writer (28 Days Later…, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go) and a writer/director (Ex Machina) has shown a visionary talent for…read more →
Give the Devil His Due
November by Christie Robb Imagine a world in which Bergman’s Seventh Seal made it with Burton’s Edward Scissorhands and you kinda get a sense of Rainer Sarnet’s November. Based on…read more →
Clowns Against Humanity
Game Night by Hope Madden Nobody does dry, self-deprecating humor as well as Jason Bateman. He’s such a natural as the put-upon husband/brother at the center of the Game Night…read more →
Grief in Three Acts
In the Fade by George Wolf Director Fatih Akin returns to an overtly political palette with In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts), and leans on a powerhouse lead performance from…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of February 20
I had a dream last night. It was about a poor wise man who changes the city. Yes, among the very worst and most embarrassing (for us as a people)…read more →
The Screening Room: Game Changer
It’s here! Black Panther has arrived, and we are thrilled to get to give a no-spoiler review of this amazing film, along with the other flicks to be seen in…read more →
Soccer Buddies
Early Man by Hope Madden There is something adorably British about Nick Parks’s latest plasticine adventure, Early Man. No I am not being condescending. It’s animated. It’s supposed to be…read more →