Blu-ray/DVD: ‘The Avengers’
The Avengers (Disney), the Marvel comics superhero all-star team, is the most impressive example of synergy in the comic book movie industry to date. Unlike The X-Men, which arrived full formed in...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
Scarlett Johansson The recent spate of superhero movies all share the same peculiar dynamic. After being dropped from buildings, incinerated, and slammed with high-speed projectiles, their characters...
View ArticleVideophiled: ‘Her’ – Love in the Digital Age
Her (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, VOD, On Demand), the first film from Spike Jonze since his underrated take on Where the Wild Things Are, returns to the territory of his debut film Being John...
View ArticleVideophiled: Scarlett Johansson gets ‘Under the Skin’
Under the Skin (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, Cable VOD) isn’t a film that wants to make things easy for the viewer. The experience is not unlike that which I suppose its unnamed protagonist, an alien...
View ArticleBlu-ray: Ghost in the Shell 2017
The live-action Ghost in the Shell (2017) is both a big-screen adaptation of the long-running Japanese manga (comic book) by Shirow Masume and a remake of the landmark animated 1995 feature from Mamoru...
View ArticleReview: The Horse Whisperer
[Originally written for Film.com, 1998] Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and websites....
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