It's rerun endlessly on Laff, which is a free over-the-air station in a lot of markets.

Also, Tarzan the Ape Man. No Ghosts Can't Do It, but I consider my Amazon Prime subscription fee justified at last.

Fun fact: Bong Joon-ho turned this down because he thought the script was too "standardized" and the actors' schedules didn't allow him enough time to rewrite it. I'm sure if he had we'd be talking about some much more significant departures from the book.

Lynch overshoots. There's fifty minutes of deleted scenes out there for Blue Velvet and 75 minutes each for Wild at Heart and Inland Empire. There's also the extended version of Dune, though that's kind of a different situation.

Fandor's library of contemporary films is a lot deeper than Filmstruck's. I expect that will change if (as all indications suggest) Fandor moves towards more mainstream fare and their current content providers jump ship.

The late French critic Serge Daney, who wrote some of the smartest criticism on movies and media to come out of the 1980s, once wrote that the key factor in the development of cinema as an art was that it was, from the very beginning, shown in a dark room to a paying, seated audience who were also expected to keep…

The version of Elephant in the box set is on Blu (on the same disc as The Firm, which is also available outside the box). The DVD-only films are Baal, Psy-Warriors, and the six "Half Hour Stories," which were shot on SD video and wouldn't have benefited much from Blu-ray.

I don't have any problems with it on either my home or work PC, but it's unusable on my iPhone.

A lot of his early work was never released on anything except VHS (and forget about subtitles).

Season 3 finished up over a month ago and the next season is still eight months off if they follow their established pattern. Did this get lost in the mail?

Kids will want to see the original Odd Couple.

Will probably catch Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 with my parents on Mother's Day, which also happens to be my father's birthday. I also intend to see A Quiet Passion before it vanishes from theaters, assuming I can get to it in time. In terms of stuff already viewed, a few standouts, for reasons both good and bad:

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I have a pretty high tolerance for gore, extreme motion, and the "conventionally" nauseating stuff, but coincidentally enough I came pretty close to nausea just last week watching The Future Perfect—specifically a section near the end where the teenaged protagonist dispassionately describes an imagined scenario in…

Not really. They've said that they're "open" to releasing their movies in theaters, but they're not budging from putting them on Netflix at the same time, which is the entire problem—theaters aren't wild about playing something that people can already stream at at home.

This has been known for a pretty long while. It's also supposedly causing the budget to mushroom well past $100 mil: http://variety.com/2017/fil…

That's Amazon's model, though. Netflix's model is no either no theatrical release outside of a festival run or simultaneous streaming/theatrical (which in practice means an extremely limited theatrical run).

I got a certain amount of enjoyment from the first just from seeing Chow back in comedy mode, but other than that it's a predictably dumb Wong Jing comedy, except pitched even broader (at times it literally feels like a kids' movie, even though a lot of the other stuff is definitely not age-appropriate). As a…

He made The Last Tycoon with Chow Yun-fat, a decent period gangster drama somewhat indebted to The Bund. Then it bombed and he decided to go back to the well with From Vegas to Macau, a sequel/reboot of God of Gamblers that was initially diverting simply for giving Chow a chance to cut loose (nothing against Chow, but…

I don't know how to describe it, but I feel like some other category should be applied to a movie in a reconstructed form of a classical language that was mostly incomprehensible to native speakers of its modern form.