DVD Picks for the Week: Apr 24th & May 1st

Directed by: Oren Moverman

Written by: James Elroy & Oren Moverman

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster & Sigourney Weaver

Why should you skip it? Because it’s a bad movie. It tries really hard to ignore the plot of Officer Brown and his constant cases of assault as a police officer, and rather be a character piece which exists for us to glorify how great an actor Harrelson is — and he is — but I feel it fails on the most part. While characters are essential to films, and most times the part of the film that I dig the most, sometimes it’s not enough. A story is what keeps me engaged. Not every film can have a Daniel Plainview or Rooster Cogburn, some films need to reside within a much grander story which keeps us going, and this is neither that film where we get a Daniel Plainview nor the story that keeps us interested. Instead it feels like a paint by numbers movie which reminds of us all the news from the late 90s with the LAPD being constantly discovered to be bad.

The Rest

The Innkeepers

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: The Sacred Star of Milos Movie

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Complete Collection One

Marvel Anime: X-Men – Complete Series

I’m Dickens…He’s Fenster

Marvel Anime: Iron Men – Complete Series

Let the Bullets Fly

Dark Tide

The Wicker Tree

Joyful Noise

George Harrison: Living In The World Material World

New Year’s Eve

Suits: Season One

W.E.

Cinema Verite

Blu Ray

Camelot

The Red House

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

A Hollis Frampton Odyssey (Criterion Collection)

The Organizer (Criterion Collection)

Shogun Assassin (5-Film Collector’s Edition)

Men in Black

Men in Black II

Jeremiah Johnson

Clueless

Meet Joe Black

About A Boy

What’re you getting this week?

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