The latest on streaming and Blu-ray, including 21 Bridges, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and a Criterion edition of Roma.
How we process movies in 2015; Top Ten Pixar Movies; Christopher McQuarrie on Minnelli and more; Dangers of auteur TV; Dorothy Arzner retrospective at UCLA.
A piece on the latest and greatest new on Blu-ray and new to Netflix, including "Joe," "Fury," "The Judge," and Criterion editions of "My Winnipeg" and "The Palm Beach Story."
In the British hit television series "Broadchurch," finally arriving stateside, death is far more than just a plot device. It is an event that shatters history. Rarely has the ripple effect of an unspeakable murder been more deftly and brilliantly captured than it is in this television event.
"Shutter Island," which opens Friday, is the fourth film Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have made together, and the most unexpected. It's not a biopic ("The Aviator") or a modern gangster movie ("The Departed") or a historical gangster movie ("Gangs of New York"). It securely occupies that most American of genres, the film noir -- the dark film, the film that takes place in the shadows of human nature.
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