With few Colombian films available on video in North America, there’s a huge unfamiliarity with the country’s history and culture up here, making it a little tough to fully grasp the political and cultural references in Carlos Mayolo’s political critique that’s housed within a supernatural container…
After the ridiculous hype and controversies transformed Seth Rogan’s comedy of two bumbling morons ‘requested’ by the CIA to assassinate North Korea’s Dear Leader #3, Kim Jong-un, into a symbol of free artistic speech, what finally arrives on video…
Not unlike The Train (1966), the original director of this adaptation of Thomas Gaddis’ 1955 book about lifer Robert Stroud involved a director being replaced by John Frankenheimer, and as Twilight Time commentators Nick Redman, Julie Kirgo, and Paul Seydor note in unison, the choice of Michael Crichton…
More than 20 years after the release of Frank and Eleanor Perry’s adaptation of John Cheever’s short story, Burt Lancaster was asked by an audience member during the taping of a Phil Donahue talk show of his thoughts on the film. The imposing actor paused for a moment, long enough for a smile to emerge, and he responded by saying he knew the film wasn’t going to be a box office, and yet it remained a special film…
Dan Gilroy’s tale of Lou Bloom, a sleazy after hours cameraman who races to traumatic scenes to shoot gory footage of dead / dying victims of car crashes, gunplay, or home invasions has some trouble settling into a specific tone; it never matures into a suspense drama, action film, or black comedy, but what grounds Nightcrawler is Jake Gyllenhaal, who dropped serious pounds and looks like a starving, wide-eyed rodent…
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