The Weekender: ‘Hard’ Times

Movie of the Week

Danny Collins*
A delightful movie with endless charm. Al Pacino plays the aging rocker who finds his mojo again after receiving a long-lost note from John Lennon. Read my review at Central Track.

WIDE RELEASE
• Get Hard
• Home

LIMITED RELEASE
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter – Texas Theatre, Angelika Plano
• Serena – The Magnolia

Blu-ray Picks
 
• The Thin Blue Line [The Criterion Collection]
• Gates of Heaven/Vernon, Florida [The Criterion Collection]
Errol Morris is one of the greatest documentarians of all time. The Criterion Collection is releasing the three films that brought him the most acclaim: the quirky small-town shorts of Gates of Heaven and Vernon, Florida, and The Thin Blue Line, which actually got a man off Death Row in Texas. All have their charms, but The Thin Blue Line remains a game-changer.

NEW RELEASES
• Actress (88%)
• Antarctica: A Year on Ice* (84%)
• Digging Up the Marrow (53%)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (60%)
• Into the Woods (71%)
• Song One (33%)
• Unbroken (51%)

NEW TO BLU-RAY
• At War with the Army
• Best Seller
• The Beyond
• Blind Woman’s Curse
• Chattahoochee
• Convicts
• Cover Up
• The End of Violence
• Gone with the Pope
• The Sure Thing*
• Vincent & Theo

*recommended