Led by Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, “Training Day” comes to home video in a new 4K UHD combo-pack courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. Now over 20 years old, this critically acclaimed crime thriller still boils with the same edge-of-your-seat intensity. It remains director Antoine Fuqua’s best … Continue reading
Revisiting “Chinatown” for the first time in years was like digging up a decades-old time capsule and rediscovering everything inside as if it were the first time. I’ve always appreciated “Chinatown”, but perhaps not quite like I should have following my first watch back in the early 1990s. It wasn’t until a second viewing some … Continue reading
(CLICK HERE to read my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) Directed by Jonah Feingold, “At Midnight” can never quite break out of its rom-com mold. It employs nearly every genre trope in the book and ends exactly where and how you expect it to. But that’s not to say there isn’t some enjoyment to … Continue reading
“Mister Scarface” is very much a movie of its time. Inevitably some will read that as a criticism, and I understand why. Movies don’t always age well,. But it also seems that people’s ability (or in many cases willingness) to not only see past but admire a movie’s limitations, especially among today’s younger audiences, has … Continue reading
One of my very favorite movies of last year makes its way to home video courtesy of MUBI. South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook’s brilliant “Decision to Leave” may be the acclaimed filmmakers very best film to date. It’s his first film since 2016’s “The Handmaiden”, and what a return it is. And despite the inexplicable … Continue reading
(CLICK HERE to read my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) “Your Place or Mine” lives and breathes through the likability of its two stars, Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. Both have plenty of charm and they give us two best friends who are fairly easy to root for. They have decent chemistry, although it’s … Continue reading
Keith & the Movies 