This week’s MUST SEES are The Hunt – the best movie of 2013 so far – and the emotionally powerful Fruitvale Station. The Hunt is likely out for only one more week.
I haven’t yet see Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, which opens today with very positive buzz. You can read descriptions and view trailers of it and other upcoming films at Movies I’m Looking Forward To.
My other recommendations:
- Melissa McCarthy’s comic genius in the cop buddy comedy The Heat.
- Pedro Almodovar’s Spanish daffy sex comedy I’m So Excited.
- The magic documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay.
- The rock documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, essential for music fans.
- the satisfying shocker The Conjuring.
- The HBO documentary The Cheshire Murders, which us beyond the familiar police procedural.
Also out right now:
- The gross-out comedy This is the End, which has its moments.
- A stale intellectual argument from 1961 in Hannah Arendt.
- The VOD comedy Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship can’t sustain its main characters.
- the wretched crime thriller Only God Forgives is in the running for the year’s worst film.
This week, there’s no DVD/Stream of the Week – get out to see The Hunt and Fruitvale Station!
On August 7, Turner Classic Movies is showing the under appreciated 1954 film noir Pushover, with Fred MacMurray as a rogue cop trying to steal a criminal’s girlfriend and loot – and then escape from his pals on the force.