High And Low: Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf***ers, D-I-V-O-R-C-E Can Be Entertaining
This week's new DVDs include a foible-packed comedy about a young divorcée getting her life back on track, and a popular…
High And Low: Wenders' 'Pina' Is Less Stodgy & Travis' 'For A Good Time, Call...' Less Stupid Than…
This week's High and Low celebrates the sublime and the obscene. But though the two movies I've spotlighted couldn't be more…
High and Low: Robert Pattinson and Dean Martin As Two Very Different Men-About-Town
Let's kick off the new year with lady-killers of two different generations: Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson retains his…
High and Low: 'Qatsi' Trilogy Is Hypnotic While Michael Caine Is Amusingly Idiotic In 'The Island'
Get out your passports, kids, because we're seeing the world. Director Godfrey Reggio's epic Qatsi Trilogy, filmed around the…
High And Low: New Box Sets Feature Coppola At His Most Obsessive & MST3K At Its Most Hilarious
Wherever you stand on the High & Low scale, meticulous attention to craft and detail separates the journeymen from the true…
High And Low: Yule Have A Blue Christmas With Desplechin & Deneuve, A Shticky One With Ernest
With the post-Thanksgiving and post–Black Friday hangover still lingering, it's a pretty slow week for new DVD releases. Since…
High & Low: Anime Gets Tragic in 'Grave of the Fireflies' While Alain Delon Captivates As A…
If you thought Japanese animation was all horny teens and laser guns and rocketships, prepare to have your mind blown by a tragic…
High & Low: Godard Savages Capitalism & Mel Brooks Satirizes Everything
Even Jean-Luc Godard, the bad boy of the French New Wave, loved a good car crash. And Mel Brooks loves sitting down with an…
High And Low: Early Fritz Lang, Late John Carpenter
This week's new DVD releases make it easy to put a little Highbrow dark chocolate in your Lowbrow crunchy peanut butter and enjoy…
High And Low: The Heights Of Hitchcock And An Overlooked Gem By 'Bridesmaids' Director Paul Feig
It's Hitchcock in the morning, Hitchcock in the evening, Hitchcock at supper time given the upcoming Hitchcock movie, the…
High and Low: Two Films About Threesomes ' 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' & 'Micki + Maude'
This week is about threesomes, in two movies that couldn't be more different. Although both are the products of legendary…
High and Low: Ex-Collaborators Anderson and Baumbach Sow Solo Quirk in 'Moonrise Kingdom'…
Onetime collaborators Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach each have a new DVD release this week. The two last worked together on…
High And Low: A Cat In Paris Is Purr Enchantment, Little Shop Of Horrors Serves Up Shock And…
This week gives us a chic, Oscar-nominated animated feature from France and a boisterous musical based on a low-budget cult…
High and Low: Altman's A Wedding Mines Matrimony For Laughs, Dante Plumbs Fear In The Hole…
This week's DVD releases include "lesser" but no less entertaining movies by two American mavericks working in their favorite…
High And Low: The Avengers Save Earth With Subtlety & Wit, Wong Kar-Wai's Characters Swoon With…
This week's Low(brow) choice may have been a box-office-record-smashing mass-appeal hit, but it's also a genre classic that…