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Under Attack
Eric's Corner
Though it's been a while since I had a
recommendation for people asking for comedies in Reckless' New Release
section lately, I laughed pretty much non-stop through Olympus Has Fallen.
It's not supposed to be a comedy-- it's deadly serious tone is one of
its funniest aspects-- and there are no jokes, but the movie plays like
someone let Tommy Wiseau direct a Michael Bay movie.
It might not be something I can explain, but scene after scene is packed with so much hilariously over-the-top (but straight faced) ridiculousness that I could barely catch my breath. The bespectacled nebbish revealing himself as the villain by showing he's far too evil to need glasses... The most energetic screaming recitation of The Pledge of Allegiance ever filmed... The symbolic emasculation of one of America's most virile monuments scored by earnest, tragic music... just to name a few.
Not everyone shares my sense of humor, and there are plenty of guns, knives, crashes, punches, and beat-the-clock countdowns to ensure the film will work as the action movie it was intended to be, but the end result made me think Gerard Butler was the second choice to star in Olympus Has Fallen...
Sadly, Leslie Nielsen is no longer with us.
It might not be something I can explain, but scene after scene is packed with so much hilariously over-the-top (but straight faced) ridiculousness that I could barely catch my breath. The bespectacled nebbish revealing himself as the villain by showing he's far too evil to need glasses... The most energetic screaming recitation of The Pledge of Allegiance ever filmed... The symbolic emasculation of one of America's most virile monuments scored by earnest, tragic music... just to name a few.
Not everyone shares my sense of humor, and there are plenty of guns, knives, crashes, punches, and beat-the-clock countdowns to ensure the film will work as the action movie it was intended to be, but the end result made me think Gerard Butler was the second choice to star in Olympus Has Fallen...
Sadly, Leslie Nielsen is no longer with us.
In the Real World
The story of three brothers from Detroit who began a band that would become a phenomenon decades layer, the documentary A Band Called Death explores the band's formation, dissolution, and eventual resurgence. In a community that expected them to play soul, Bobby, David, and Danis Hackney began playing rock and roll in the early seventies as
Death,
recording fast, energetic music that pre-dated the punk movement but
never found success due to their unwillingness to compromise. Years
later, unearthed by record collectors, Death became an underground
obsession, leading fans to track down the remaining members and recover
their long lost music.After the success of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) find his new leading lady in The Girl. Hitch and Alma Reville (Imelda Staunton) discover Tippi Hedron (Sienna Miller), a model working in television commercials, and plan to make her the next Grace Kelly. Filming The Birds, Hitch and Hedron's working relationship starts to suffer, as the director constantly wants more than the young actress is willing to give, but she's bound to him by contract, and war with Hitch could end her career.
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal is a documentary about revolutionary journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of shooting a police officer in 1981. Including the Manufacturing Guilt documentary, covering the bias surrounding Mumia's conviction, Long Distance Revolutionary focuses on Mumia's upbringing, his relationship to the social climate in Philadelphia in the 1970s, and the journalism career that took him from print to time on NPR, as well as the journalistic and activist work he continues to do from prison.
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) has to keep the peace in Japan after Emperor Hirohito's surrender in Emperor, but, in the wake of World War II, he must first handle the possibilities of war tribunals. He appoints an officer (Matthew Fox) with a love of Japanese culture and a relationship with a Japanese woman (Eriko Hatsune) to find the Emperor and learn who was responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and if they should be tried as war criminals... but convicting the imperial leadership could cause the Japanese people to rise up against the Americans.
Documentary director Brett Morgen's Crossfire Hurricane explores the early days of The Rolling Stones. Combining new interviews from the band members with archival footage from the beginning of their career, the film follows the Stones from their start in obscure London blues clubs in early 1960s to their rise to stardom.
Dramatic
6-year-old Maisie has to cope with her parents' divorce in What Maisie Knew,
and, though she may be too young to understand the particulars of the
adult world, she begins to gain an understanding of her parents. Her
father (Steve Coogan) is a writer with very little time for her, and her mother (Julianne Moore)
is a self-obsessed rock star with no sense of responsibility-- unless
they're using Maisie as a tool to wound one another, neither of them are
likely to notice she's around. She has a better relationship with
Margo, her nanny-turned-young-stepmother, and Lincoln (Alexander Skarsgård),
her mother's young husband, and Maisie becomes more aware of when she's
being used, when she's being lied to, and who really loves her. On DVD
and Blu Ray.Robert Redford directs and stars in The Company You Keep as Jim Grant, former 1960s radical who lives his life in hiding, wanted for bank robbery and murder over thirty years ago. When a hotshot young reporter (Shia LaBeouf) sees Jim as a fame-making story, his cover is blown, and the FBI starts hunting him again. The path to Jim is paved with his former 60s activist colleagues (including Susan Sarandon, Stephen Root, and Nick Nolte), but if he's racing to find the one person (Julie Christie) who can clear his name before he loses everything. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Comedic
An ensemble romantic comedy, The Big Wedding centers around Don (Robert De Niro) as he prepares for his son's wedding. It's a big event, and his girlfriend (Susan Sarandon) is going to have to deal with Don's ex-wife (Diane Keaton) and mother to their children as their son (Ben Barnes) is about to marry his fiance (Amanda Seyfried). Along with the arrival of Don's other children (Katherine Heigl and Topher Grace), Don has to contend with old feelings for his ex during an already overstuffed event. With Robin Williams. On DVD and Blu Ray.Beth (Brooke Shields) concocts a plan to save the just-out-of-business mobile mammogram unit in her small Texas town in The Hot Flashes: she starts a basketball team. Gathering a team of middle-aged women, including a tough girl biker (Camryn Manheim), a multiple divorcee socialite (Virginia Madsen), a closeted lesbian car saleswoman (Daryl Hannah), and the town's mayor (Wanda Sykes), Beth plans a fundraising game against the local, champion, high school girls' team. They haven't played basketball in a while, and they have to make it through a lot of comedic training to get ready for them game, but if they can stay ahead of their rivals (Andrea Frankle), the women might be able to raise money and prove their worth to the town.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Girls Season 2 |
Aspiring writer Hannah is still trying to make her way through modern New York, taking care of Adam after the events of season 1, but still exploring other options. |  |
Enlightened Season 2 |
Amy (Laura Dern) is still relegated to data processing in the company's basement, but her new worldview in the 2nd and final season keeps driving her to rebel against the people upstairs. |
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Southland Season 5 |
In the final season, the Los Angeles police cope with some of the most dangerous streets in the country, closing their last cases and setting out on their final patrols. |  |
Once Upon a Time Season 2 |
Emma is still coming to terms with the town of Storybrooke, where an evil queen has banished fairytale characters into the real world, when devious schemer Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) sets his plans in motion. |
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The Mindy Project Season 2 |
The situation/workplace comedy puts Mindy Kaling in an Ob/Gyn office and sees her through personal and professional misadventures. |  |
Parade's End | British aristocrat Christopher is serving as a World War I officer while his high society wife squanders their estate, and his attentions are drawn to a suffragette (Judi Dench). |
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Wild Kratts
Lost at Sea |
The Kratt brothers are deep undersea, trying to understand the language of the dolphins and learning the secret of the blowfish's survival. | |||
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