‘1917’ Blu-ray review

Hank (Jeremy Gardner) and Abby (Brea Grant) have been dating for a decade and have fallen into something of a rut; one day Hank wakes up to discover that Abby has vanished. Plagued by memories of better times, Hank tries to assess where their relationship started to go wrong, but before he can, he finds himself stalked by a mysterious entity that attacks his house in the middle of each and every night.

By Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka

It's too little too late in this tedious biopic of Anglo-Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray and her antagonist Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

In 2010, Chilean writer-director Raúl Ruiz debuted his sumptuous, epic romance “Mysteries of Lisbon” at the Toronto International Film Festival. A month later, it debuted on French television in six 55-minute chapters (the feature version is significantly shorter, but four-and-a-half hours is still no walk in the park).

In a recent piece for The New Yorker, Bill Buford movingly recounts the kind of romantic apprenticeship most aspiring chefs imagine when they hear the word "stage": Having moved to Lyon to absorb French food culture, the American humbly offered himself as a student hoping to learn from the crusty character who made the town's best bread. A skill was passed from master to learner, a friendship developed, and a new evangelist for the region's traditions was born.

Carly Rae Jepsen — Photo: Natalie O’Moore

How soon is now, is now, and the neon painted landscape strokes to the club beat. That night was more than a sweaty crowded dance floor your friends dragged you to—criminally packed bodies bumping, tossed together—searching for one another.

When the film was released in 1983, “Flashdance” was pretty much panned by most critics. But as we’ve seen time after time, critics aren’t the ones buying tickets, and the musical drama would go on to become a massive hit at the box office, finishing the year as the #3 highest-grossing film in the US and earning more than $200 million worldwide.

Mike Hodges’ horror film Black Rainbow is getting a newly restored home release on the Blu-ray format courtesy of the folks over at Arrow Video.

Two sets of newcomers alight upon the New France settlement of Wobik at the start of Nat Geo's colonial-era drama Barkskins. "Here, you can be whoever you want," promises Rene Sel (Christian Cooke), a young-ish man who has signed up for three years of indentured servitude and what he hopes will be a wide-open future thereafter.

Primary Wave Music Publishing has finalized a multi-million dollar deal to acquire a majority stake in the pre-1964 music publishing catalog of soul music pioneer Ray Charles.

Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae are a quarreling couple out to solve a murder, but the first movie directed by Michael Showalter since "The Big Sick" is a crime comedy that aims lower than it thinks.

One plus one can occasionally equal too much.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Pollyanna McIntosh is best known these days for her recurring role as Jadis / Anne in The Walking Dead. Before that though, she was already well known in horror circuits for her role as a wild tribeswoman in both Offspring and The Woman.

British actor Ray Winstone has been left stranded on the Italian island of Sicily due to the Covid-19 lockdown across Europe.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Those who come to TNT's Snowpiercer as fans of either Bong Joon Ho's ambitious feature film or the original French graphic novel Le Transperceneige are likely to be at least somewhat disappointed by this tonally uneven, narratively confusing TV adaptation.

Based on the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and created for televsion by Evan Goldberg, Eric Kripke and Seth Rogen, The Boys offers a unique take on superheroes. Set in a world full of people with remarkable abilities, many of these individuals use their powers to gain celebrity-like status.