Home Movies/Out on Digital: Oct. 21
Sebastian Junger’s Restrepo was the signal documentary of America’s intervention in Afghanistan. With Korengal, the director revisits that same remote outpost, focusing this time on the recollections...
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Penny dreadfuls were the pulp fiction of Victorian Britain—cheap paperback novels, usually lurid and often gothic in theme. The name was well chosen for the Showtime series except for one thing:...
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Joe Medeiros had lots of fun making Mona Lisa is Missing—a snappy, bright investigation into the 1911 theft of the world’s most famous painting. The thief, Italian immigrant Vincenzo Peruggia, claimed...
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s novella gave us a word for masochism and inspired the Velvet Underground and Roman Polanski’s film about a theatrical production of Venus in Fur gone awry. Mathieu Amalric...
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George A. Romero is notorious for resuscitating the zombie legend to pop culture, but departed from the undead with this 1993 horror. Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Dark Half is a Castle Rock...
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Stephanie Szostak plays with the slightly shy charm of a Millennial Audrey Hepburn in a fetching performance as Ro, a young woman navigating life’s turns and pursuing her dreams. Karl Geary plays...
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To Kill a Man
A gang of thugs down the street from his home harasses Jorge; their ringleader shoots his son, is given a short prison sentence and returns with vengeance in mind. Chilean writer-director Alejandro Fe
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Miss Marple: Volume One
“Poirot” will probably be remembered as the classic Agatha Christie TV mystery, but another series set in the same era, “Miss Marple,” is as superb. The best iteration, a BBC production orig
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The Long Goodbye
One of Robert Altman’s standout films, The Long Goodbye (1973) was a contemporary adaptation of the Raymond Chandler story and a sly send-up of Hollywood in the Chandler era. Elliott Gould is unfo
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Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony
Edith Wharton is known for The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, novels of upperclass New York turned into films. But as writer-director Elizabeth Lennard shows in her informative documentary,
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Rope of Sand
Much of the Casablanca crew regrouped for Rope of Sand (1949). While the magic (and Humphrey Bogart) were missing, it’s a well-made effort in classic Hollywood style. Claude Rains is suavely duplici
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Frontera
When pampered millennials play militia trying to scare off Mexicans crossing the border, they accidently kill the wife of a former sheriff. Guess who gets blamed? Frontera dramatizes desperation and h
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Mas Negro Que La Noche
Although surprised to inherit Aunt Ofelia’s estate, Greta moves into the mossy old manor. Her snarky, shallow friends tag along. But since this is a horror movie, the house is creepy, in the path of
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Finding Fela!
The father of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, spun endless trance-and-dance grooves from the influences of James Brown and African syncopation. The continent’s most popular musician was also confrontational wh
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