DVD: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Pimp

New on DVD & BluRay this week are three films which awards season completists will need to see...

• Mr Holmes in which 76 year-old spry Sir Ian McKellen is aged up to play the world's most famous detective at 93 years of age as he mind begins to deteriorate. Mr Holmes was a leggy arthouse hit this summer but can that be converted into an awards run for Sir Ian? We shall see...
• Tangerine, one of the year's best films, follows Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) & Alexandra (Mya Taylor), best friends & hookers, as they search for Sin-Dee's boyfriend/pimp (James Ransone) who cheated on her "with real fish!" during her latest prison stint. It's the most unexpected and awesome Christmas comedy ever. It's already snagged multiple Gotham nominations but pray for Golden Globe, BFCA, Spirit nominations and top ten lists because this Sean Baker gem deserves them.
• Trainwreck, or The Coronation of Amy Schumer as 2015's It Girl. Expect Golden Globe Comedy nominations

Also out this week

• Star Wars Episodes I-VI Steel Book Collection
  The amount of times they've convinced people to buy the Star Wars films in different versions / formats is like Swindling Achievement of the Century right?
• Pay the Ghost in which Nicolas Cage collects another paycheck. He collects loads of them but they surely have less zeroes on them by now.
• Self/Less in which Ben Kingsley steals Ryan Reynolds body (I mean... who wouldn't?)
• We'll Never Have Paris a romantic comedy with Melanie Lynskey, Simon Helberg, Maggie Grace, and Zachary Quinto
• Two Men in Town a restoration of the 1973 French ex-con drama with Jean  Gabin, beautiful Alain Delon, and young Gerard Depardieu

Comments

[Glenn Dunks]

I'd be predicting a MR HOLMES make-up nomination in the grand tradition of films like HITCHCOCK and BARNEY'S VERSION. Ian will be harder, but I could see SAG going there and if SAG goes there then it's feasible for Oscar (unless you're Naomi Watts in ST VINCENT).

TANGERINE, absolutely one of the year's best.

The thing about Nicolas Cage is that surely - *surely* - he could be picking up far bigger pay checks than the ones he's getting for movies like PAY THE GHOST (ironic title, really). Wouldn't he get $20mil for a new NATIONAL TREASURE? I guess they maybe don't want one, but surely he could find better ways to pay back his tax debt (is it a tax debt? i can't remember) than these sort of movies which can't have big budgets. And it's not like they're earning money for him to make backend deals on. So strange. Mayby he's just biding his time until he's grandpa age for casting.

[Mareko]

I was so disappointed by Trainwreck. That ending...yikes! Pure crap, pure Apatow.

[Max]

Thanks so much for spotlighting what is new on DVD, especially those remote titles that we might never know are now available. I add what I can to my Netflix or streaming list.

Remember, for those of us who do not live in a major city or cannot get to the movie theater as often as we wish DVD's are our saving grace. Keep the updates on new DVD releases coming.

The Film Experience is an awesome site all the way around.
Thanks!

[ken s]

Wow, both the best movie of the year (Tangerine) and the worst, the absolute worst (Trainwreck)

[NATHANIEL R]

Max -- thank you so much. Sometimes it feels like typing into the void so it's always a relief to hear that someone appreciates something or has an opinion about whether it's a valuable column (whatever the column is)

Glenn -- good point on SAG + Mr Holmes.