This week on The Movie Gourmet – new reviews of The Secret Agent: ,one of the very best films of the year, now available on VOD, and Jodie Foster in A Private Life.
REMEMBRANCE
Bud Cort never matched his iconic performance in Hal Ashby’s subversive Harold and Maude.
CURRENT MOVIES
- The Secret Agent: we’re all back in 1977, and he’s running for his life. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- No Other Choice: keeping up with the Parks. In theaters
- A Private Life: a shrink and her own issues. In theaters.
- Hamnet: a grieving couple finally aligned. In theaters.
- It Was Just an Accident: trauma, justice and complications. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Mr. Nobody Against Putin: The first casualty of war is truth. Amazon, AppleTV.
- Train Dreams: quietly thinking and quietly feeling. Netflix.
- Marty Supreme: a portrait of chutzpah. In theaters.
- Sentimental Value: generational healing. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Jay Kelly: finding that the ship has sailed. Netflix.
- The Testament of Ann Lee: dreary, self-important and odd, In theaters.
ON TV
On February 17, Turner Class Movies airs Them!, one of the earliest movies with the premise that nuclear bomb tests can mutate animals into giant monsters. Here, the nightmarish threat is ants the size of trucks. It’s bad enough to have them wandering the New Mexico desert, but then they show up in the storm drain system underneath Los Angeles. Yikes! Despite the state of non-CGI special effects in 1954, the ants are suitably terrifying. The reliable James Whitmore stars. Look for future television superstars James Arness and Fess Parker.