Feud: Capote vs. The Swans Review: A Dull Follow Up To Murphy’s Best Work
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans proves a character's downfall will always fail to impact an audience that never witnesses their rise to greatness.
Susan Sarandon
Blue Beetle Review: Summer Moviegoing Season Ends With A Superhero-Sized Bang
Blue Beetle closes out the summer moviegoing season with delightful, heartfelt, family-oriented superheroics.
CONTEST: Paid in Sweat Presents BULL DURHAM on 35mm at the Revue Cinema!
Let's play ball! Attend Paid in Sweat's 35th-anniversary screening of BULL DURHAM in 35mm at the Revue Cinema!
The Criterion Shelf: Film Plays Itself
Criterion Channel has assembled seventeen films that deal with films within films, here they are in my preferential order.
Black Hole Films Episode 96 – Bull Durham
Alice Moran joins Jeremy to watch BULL DURHAM and lets him pretend to know stuff about athletics from time to time while they revel in a film that celebrates the brutal reality of minor league sports.
TIFF 2016: My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea Review
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea TIFF 2016 review.
Loose Cannons Special #1: Interview with Go-Go Boys Director Hilla Medalia
We're celebrating the arrival of the Loose Cannons podcast on Dork Shelf with a very special interview. The Loose Cannons speak with filmmaker Hilla Medalia, the director of the documentary The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films.
Loose Cannons Episode #4 – Joe (1970)
The Loose Cannons finally hit a film they feel they can unreservedly recommend—John G. Avildsen’s proto-vigilante flick/thoughtful rumination on class and race in early 1970s America, Joe!
The Calling Review
Though certainly uninspired, some great performances help make the serial killer flick The Calling worthwhile.
Tammy Review
Melissa McCarthy’s first project as producer, writer, and star will most likely flop, but it’s not the abysmal failure than its curiously quiet dumping over the Fourth of July holiday in the States would suggest.
The Company You Keep Review
The Company You Keep, the latest thriller from actor and director Robert Redford is almost quaint in terms of how unpretentious it is despite subject material and a stacked cast of familiar faces that could have been so much more than this. But it's that smallness that makes it all that much better.
Snitch Review
While not as action packed as fans of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would expect given his recent output, the character based drama Snitch is still an admirable change of pace.
CONTEST: See SNITCH in 6 Cities!
Enter for a chance to win one of ten pairs of passes to see an advance screening of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in Snitch in Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, or Edmonton on Thursday, February 21st, courtesy of Dork Shelf and eOne Films!
This “Week” in DVD: 12/18/12
With films coming to home video two days this week (Tuesday and Friday) here's part one of our look at the latest releases including Beasts of the Southern Wild, Killer Joe, Total Recall, Premium Rush, and Arbitrage.
Arbitrage Review
Even when adding subplots involving a deadly cover-up, crooked cops, and a shaky marriage, it’s still hard to make a compelling film set against the backdrop of investment banking. Luckily, Arbitrage overcomes potentially dry material with some great performances and a solid cat and mouse story where the mouse is being chased by dozens of cats through several different houses.
