Or visit all our Paste Movie Guides. Watch on Redbox Free On Demand. No high-suspense mystery here. What puts you on the edge of your seat in this film is how you get there. Hilariously acted and expertly filmed, His Girl Friday derives much of its comedic impact from the incredibly clever and lightning-fast banter of the characters. In fact, try to blink as little as possible. Battle Royale , like the immensely successful four-film crash course in crafting an action star who is really only a symbol of an action star, chronicles a government-sanctioned battle to the death between a group of teens on a weird, weapon-strewn island.
What the director can do with such a tenuous premise which The Hunger Games takes multiple films to do, and without a single ounce of levity is astounding—plus, he wrangled Beat Takeshi Kitano to play the President Snow-type character, which Kitano does to near-perfection. Metropolis never slows as it delivers a constant stream of iconic images. Metropolis , too, is a great reminder of just how difficult it is to judge an incomplete film. With that unknown excellence lurking in one of the most famous films of all time, it leaves us to wonder what else was lost in nitrate flames.
Nightbreed is an odd duck of a movie, stranded somewhere between legitimate horror film and dark fantasy story. Clive Barker directs, only a few years after Hellraiser , but here his ambition perhaps got the best of him. One thing that is spectacular throughout is the art direction, sets, costuming and makeup.
In our current climate, it feels strange to have a gay conversion therapy camp serve as the backdrop for a love affair between two young women. Luckily for our heroine Megan Natasha Lyonne , she finds that love with Graham Clea DuVall , another kid sent by her parents to be converted to heterosexuality. But Universal ultimately concluded that trying to force the issue could harm its bottom line, the person added.
Edgar"in as little as a week after they went on sale. Galen Smith, senior vice president of Redbox, said his company is still making a profit on the Warner discs it buys at retail and is prepared to continue with its current arrangement indefinitely. The company presumably would have taken the same approach with Universal, as Smith made clear that a wait longer than four weeks was not acceptable to Redbox.
If Universal had held its ground on the day window, it might have increased the pressure on Redbox to yield. Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger recently said his studio intended to implement a day delay soon as well.
An agreement with Sony Pictures, which lets Redbox rent discs the same day they go on sale, expires in September. Warner successfully persuaded Netflix to implement a day delay on renting its DVDs through the mail.
However, because it kept the day window with Redbox, Universal may not be able to persuade Netflix to accept a longer wait. Company Town. Film crew workers remain divided over new contract as voting begins. All Sections.
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