Aaron Eckhart is the glib, proudly obfuscating tobacco lobbyist in Jason Reitman’s wickedly witty adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s novel. He’s also our hero.
Category: Have You Seen…?
‘Waitress’ with Keri Russell on Hulu
Before it was a Broadway musical, ‘Waitress’ was a sweet romantic drama from filmmaker Adrienne Shelly, costarring Nathan Fillion.
Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Handmaiden’ on Amazon Prime
The director of ‘Oldboy’ delivers a sexy, savage, utterly compelling con thriller tangled up in national and sexual politics in 1930s Korea.
George Clooney is ‘Up in the Air’ on HBO Max
The Oscar-nominated drama from Jason Reitman taps into the anxieties of our precarious times and gives a voice to the victims of downsizing and those who have kept afloat be remaining completely untethered.
‘Dracula’ – the 1931 Spanish version on Criterion Channel
This little known alternate version, shot on the same sets as the Lugosi classic, features a different cast and a sexy style and is proclaimed by many fans as a superior version.
Al Pacino is ‘Danny Collins’ on HBO Max and Kanopy
Pacino plays a former rock star on a redemption tour in this low-key comic drama that gives the actor an opportunity to both play off and play down his knack for big, showy performances.
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Cronos’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel
The feature debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a magnificent mix of fantasy and horror, an alchemic twist on vampire lore and the costs of eternal life.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Empire of the Sun’ – Innocence in wartime on HBO Max
Christian Bale made his film debut as British schoolboy in a Japanese prison camp in World War II Shanghai in this superb war drama.
‘The Guilty’ – a rivetting Danish thriller on Hulu
Actor Jakob Cedergren carries this drama about an Emergency Services operator who receives a call from a woman in trouble and has to solve a mystery with only a phone.
David Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’ on Disney+
The true story of a man who drove a riding mower across to two state becomes a sweet celebration of small town values a G-rated, family friendly tale from America’s most subversive filmmaker.