Home Theater: What to watch from your bunker.
Monday, March 14, 2016 at 1:33PM It's your bi-weekly blend of tasty new releases on DVD/Blu-Ray and the ever shifting entrees from streaming services. I'm totally depressed about the state of the world today as we head to another round of catastrophic primaries tomorrow but let's jump right in.
NEWISH ON DVD/BLURAY
• Alvin & Chipmunks 4 - a sure sign of the apocalypse
• The Big Short - about the financial apocalypse
• Brooklyn - wonderful escape from awfulness of everything
• Carol - masterpiece. hope it survives the fires
• Grease: Live! -nobody will be doing the handjive in hell
• In the Heart of the Sea - we are all Chris Hemsworth, deluding ourselves
• Macbeth -that damn spot will never come out, lady!
• The Peanuts Movie - tfw you're Charlie Brown
• Sisters - the sinkhole is a metaphor
• Victor Frankenstein - again?
• Game of Thrones S5 - everyone dies
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S1 - that bunker is looking smart right about now.
NEW TO STREAMING
• Netflix: Zac Efron in Charlie St Cloud, Tom Hanks in Larry Crowne and Daredevil S2 all on March 18th
• Amazon Prime: The Internet's Boyfriend and also Garrett Hedlund in Mojave (March 22nd) and the visceral gripping '71 (March 27th) about The Troubles starring Jack O'Connell. You should see that.
LAST CHANCE TO STREAM
You know how we do. We've freeze framed each movie somewhere random after the jump...
There's pain enough for everybody now.
COSMOPOLIS David Cronenberg's adaptation of the limo set Don DeLillo novel pulled up to mixed reviews but it's not without its memorable moments. Especially when amazing actresses (Juliette Binoche, Samatha Morton, Sarah Gardon) liven things up in short duets with Robert Pattinson (ends 3/18 Netflix).
-Did the right time ever come?
- [Shakes head] Nor the right person.
ELEGY It's a bit of a slow burn but Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, and Patricia Clarkson are legitimately terrific in this stinging romantic drama (ends 3/18 Netflix)
SIDE EFFECTS Um, Rooney. You've got, uhhh, blood all over your feet. Oh god. What did you just do?! Jude Law, Rooney Mara, CZJ and Channing Tatum star in this ludicrous but entertaining Steven Soderbergh thriller. (ends 3/18 Netflix)
They are so wrong. Godzilla should not be destroyed. He should be studied.
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS A whole bunch of Godzilla movies are leaving Amazon Prime on this day so if you have a hankering for giant nuclear radiation lizard monsters you should binge now. (ends 3/20 on Amazon Prime).
Related Reading: 10 Best Godzilla Fights.
[Moaning]
KEEP THE LIGHTS ON You don't wanna know what's happening to the bottom left of the frame right there. This movie is so sad... no strike that, miserable. Critics loved this gay relationship drama about a long term couple struggling with sex & drug addictions but I actually kinda hated this. That said writer/director Ira Sachs follow up was the sublime Love is Strange (top ten of 2014) and his new film Little Men won raves at Sundance and Berlinale soperhaps I'll give this another chance at some point. (ends 3/23 on Netflix)
Reader Comments (6)
Oh, wow, ELEGY was so good. May try to squeeze a rewatch in this week. I've been wondering about their reteaming in LEARNING TO DRIVE and wonder if it's worth paying for. Most reviews say "meh".
Clarkson was so great in Elegy. Not surprising of course, but still. And I kind of wish Samantha Morton's section of Cosmopolis was it's own film. Cosmopolis is okay, and I'd say Pattinson is good in it, but I wanted to watch Morton give her monologue for days.
I'd tell you to cheer up, but the idea of Trump new stories (and all that comes with that) from here till November is pretty distressing. So maybe it's as good a time as any to watch Carol and then Brooklyn and then Carol and then Brooklyn and then...
Fully prepared to be disappointed in my state tomorrow and furious at 90% of my dayjob coworkers. At least I get to see 2001 in 70MM in the evening?
Love Cosmopolis. It's the Odyssey in NYC, only reworked by Cronenberg. It's worth noting that the novel is even crazier, so Cronenberg actually toned down Don DeLillo's concept to have it make sense onscreen.
the big short is my version of the hateful eight for you Nathaniel, God, the editing alone was vomit inducing, the performances were laughable, and the screenplay would be okay if it didn't feel the need to move so fast and throw so much information in your face. and christ the repetition. WE GET IT. BANKERS WERE ASSHOLES IN THE 2000'S. SHUT THE FUCK UP STEVE CARRELL. the fact that it received any oscar noms makes me want to never pay attention to the oscars again.