The Weekender: Free Your Mind

Movie of the Week


Transcendence
Wally Pfister, the Oscar-winning cinematographer of Inception and Moneyball either nails his directorial debut, a cyber-thriller, with nail-biting precision. Or it just completely falls off the rails, wasting its talented cast. I hope it’s the former.

Also opening:
WIDE RELEASE
Bears
A Haunted House 2
Heaven is for Real

LIMITED RELEASE
Dom Hemingway – Angelika Dallas, Angelika Plano
The Railway Man – Angelika Plano, The Magnolia
Under the Skin – Angelika Dallas

Blu-ray Pick

Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity
Another week, another Billy Wilder classic. This is the film noir prototype, the very best example of its genre. Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck are simply magnificent as the frog and the scorpion, respectively. It’s dark, ugly but ultimately entertaining and rewarding. Hard to believe this came out 70 years ago.

New Releases
Better Living Through Chemistry (21%)
Black Nativity (49%)
Copperhead (22%)
Great Expectations (66%)
Interior: Leather Bar (57%)
The Invisible Woman (76%)
The Nut Job (11%)
Philomena (92%)
Ride Along (18%)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty* (49%)

TV
Anger Management (Vol. 3)
The Bletchley Circle (Season 2)
Ripper Street (Season 2)

New to Blu-ray
Alice (1988)
Breaking the Waves [The Criterion Collection]
Mallrats*
Reality Bites*
Rock Star
Touch of Evil*

*recommended

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