Blu-ray Review: 20th Century Women
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Frances Ha (Blu-ray)
Noah Baumbach’s films are largely character studies, and Frances Ha’s Frances Halliday—portrayed and co-created by Greta Gerwig, who shares screenwriting credit—is a study in contradictions. A dancer whose career is coming to an end before it ever really took off. At twenty-seven, Frances is at that awkward, transitional period in life where she’s too old […]
Blu-ray Review: Arthur (2011)
A sleeper hit in 1981, Arthur grossed nearly $100 million in the U.S. alone, won two Oscars (for best song and supporting actor, John Gielgud) and nominations for star Dudley Moore and original screenplay. For the 2011 remake, Hobson the butler, now a nanny, switches genders from John Gielgud to Helen Mirren and Russell Brand […]
Blu-ray Review: No Strings Attached
Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 108 mins. | R No Strings Attached was originally titled Friends With Benefits, which was changed due to a forthcoming Justin Timberlake-Mila Kunis comedy bearing the same name and a near-identical premise: longtime friends decide to have a purely physical relationship; hence, “No Strings Attached.” If you saw last year’s […]