Film Noir Classics III DVD Features Overlooked Restored Gems
This review of Film Noir Classics III originally appeared in shorter form on KSNT-NBC, KTKA-ABC, and KTMJ-FOX, Kansas First News. Martin Scorsese is the chair of The Film Foundation, who partnered...
View Article‘Letter Never Sent’ a Stirring Overlooked Movie
Sometimes, I watch movies and just marvel at the fact that everything has been done already. Watching the 1959 Soviet film Letter Never Sent (aka The Unsent Letter), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov and...
View Article‘Series 7: The Contenders’ Was ‘The Hunger Games’ Before It Was Cool
This weekend, The Hunger Games cleaned up at the box office ($155 mil ain’t bad) and scored pretty high with most critics as well. (My theory is that even though The Hunger Games has a 85% fresh...
View ArticleMartin Scorsese’s ‘Last Temptation’ an Overlooked Movie
A 15-year labor of love finally brought to the screen by director Martin Scorsese quite controversially in 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ looks radiant in a new Blu-ray from The Criterion...
View ArticleOverlooked Movie ‘Notes on a Scandal’ a Dark Treat
Judi Dench received her sixth Oscar nomination for the darkly funny oddball drama Notes on a Scandal in 2007, just as Fox Searchlight hoped she would when they released it during awards season. As an...
View Article‘Kicking and Screaming’ a Brutally Absurd PG Revenge Flick
Kicking and Screaming wasn’t really a big hit when it came out in 2005. Maybe its because its number-one goal was to showcase its star verbally and physically abusing kids. Kicking and Screaming may...
View Article‘Goon’ is the best sports movie no one’s seen
Maybe it’s a little early to call Goon overlooked, but considering the movie came out in January and has been available on-demand for even longer, the fact that the average moviegoer hasn’t heard of...
View Article¡Alambrista! an Overlooked Film About Illegal Immigration
Rarely does a movie come along that that tackles a polarizing issue in a seemingly unobtrusive way. What is so surprising about Robert M. Young‘s 1977 film ¡Alambrista! (The Illegal) is that it...
View ArticleOverlooked Movie Monday: Near Dark
With director Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty release date approaching and Halloween right on our heels, today’s Overlooked Movie takes a look at an early movie in Bigelow’s career, the underrated...
View Article‘Seven Psychopaths’ Deserves a Criterion-Like Treatment
One of the most underrated and overlooked movies of last year is now out on Blu-ray. Irish playwright-turned-filmmaker Martin McDonagh’s strange and clever dark comedy Seven Psychopaths sank like a...
View ArticleA Plea for Consideration: TV’s ‘Freaks and Geeks’
Note: A mutual friend of Eric’s and mine asked us on Twitter to convince a buddy of hers to watch Freaks and Geeks. As Eric noted, 140 characters doesn’t do the series justice, so I sent said Freaks...
View ArticleOverlooked Movie Monday: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
The trajectory of the Godzilla filmography is ongoing, shifting between nuclear metaphor and more standard daikaiju material–once defiled by an American studio and currently in the process of being...
View ArticleOverlooked Movie Monday: Mona Lisa
Today’s Overlooked Movie comes from Will Dawson, a longtime Scene-Stealers pal and author of the blog View From Across the Pond. It’s a tribute to the late Bob Hoskins, and the only film that earned...
View ArticleOverlooked Movie Monday: ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ (2004)
It’s really hard to say something new about a divisive film like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, especially when you’re writing about it ten years after its release. The fact is, that there are...
View ArticleTwo Challenging and Unforgettable Film Classics on new Criterion Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection – La Jetée | Sans Soleil Blu-ray (2012) Review Is French photographer, filmmaker, videographer, poet, journalist, multimedia/installation artist Chris Marker “the most famous...
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