Many gangland parodies fall flat, but not Jonathan Demme’s marvelous combo of high spirits and murder. Mafia spouse Angela de Marco’s story is goofy comedy with an edge of economic reality: how does one newly-impoverished New Yawk dame make a living for her orphaned son, while avoiding the adulterous attentions of the Big Boss who had her husband iced? Michelle Pfeiffer came into her own, Dean Stockwell has his best adult role and Matthew Modine is uniquely charming as an amorous FBI agent. The tonal balance is abetted by a supporting performances that go every which way: Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Oliver Platt and a slew of Demme regulars. Plus a music score by David Byrne. The disc features three new video interviews.
Married to the Mob
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1988 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 104 min. / Street Date September 27, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell,...
Married to the Mob
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1988 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 104 min. / Street Date September 27, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
IFC Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the road trip comedy Furlough, starring Tessa Thompson and Melissa Leo, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Directed by Laurie Collyer, the film stars Thompson as a woman who cares for her aging mother while working at a jail. She gets assigned to accompany a rowdy prisoner (Leo) on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother, but the duo's trip goes haywire.
Whoopi Goldberg plays Thompson's onscreen mother, and Anna Paquin, Edgar Ramirez and La La Anthony are also among the cast of the completed movie.
Barry Strugatz wrote the script. Leo and...
Directed by Laurie Collyer, the film stars Thompson as a woman who cares for her aging mother while working at a jail. She gets assigned to accompany a rowdy prisoner (Leo) on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother, but the duo's trip goes haywire.
Whoopi Goldberg plays Thompson's onscreen mother, and Anna Paquin, Edgar Ramirez and La La Anthony are also among the cast of the completed movie.
Barry Strugatz wrote the script. Leo and...
- 12/5/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
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Our monthly round up of horror DVDs and Blu-rays, led by the wonderful and terrifying Audition...
So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
The director of the equally subtle Frankenhooker cut his teeth with his 1982 cult favourite Basket Case, which told the tale of the Bradley brothers, bemulleted Duane (Kevin van Hentenryck), the ostensibly ’normal...
- 3/15/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
From Other Worlds
Belladonna Prods.
NEW YORK -- A tired sci-fi spoof that fails to deliver on its promise of satirical comedy, this feature debut from Barry Strugatz (screenwriter of "Married to the Mob" and "She-Devil") is mainly notable for its authentic Brooklyn locations. Starring Cara Buono as a bored housewife who suspects that she's come into a close encounter with aliens, "From Other Worlds" squanders the cleverness of its concept with a lackluster execution. The film is currently being shown at New York's Cinema Village.
After Joanne imagines that she's been abducted by aliens thanks to some mysterious visions and a strange mark on her body, she attends a support group for fellow U.F.O. fanatics. There she meets Abraham (Isaach De Bankole), an African immigrant who has the same mark. Bonding together, they find themselves attempting to save the world after sharing an encounter with a helpful alien who instructs them to steal an apparently highly destructive Egyptian scroll from the Brooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, Joanne's aggrieved husband (David Lansbury) becomes increasingly suspicious that she's having an affair.
Strugatz's script has a few clever moments poking fun at the alien contact subculture, but is ultimately undone by its lack of subtlety and degeneration into broad sci-fi comedy. Not helping matters are the amateurish direction and the charmless performances, with even such normally reliable supporting players as Melissa Leo and Marcia Jean Kurtz floundering in their overly broad characterizations.
NEW YORK -- A tired sci-fi spoof that fails to deliver on its promise of satirical comedy, this feature debut from Barry Strugatz (screenwriter of "Married to the Mob" and "She-Devil") is mainly notable for its authentic Brooklyn locations. Starring Cara Buono as a bored housewife who suspects that she's come into a close encounter with aliens, "From Other Worlds" squanders the cleverness of its concept with a lackluster execution. The film is currently being shown at New York's Cinema Village.
After Joanne imagines that she's been abducted by aliens thanks to some mysterious visions and a strange mark on her body, she attends a support group for fellow U.F.O. fanatics. There she meets Abraham (Isaach De Bankole), an African immigrant who has the same mark. Bonding together, they find themselves attempting to save the world after sharing an encounter with a helpful alien who instructs them to steal an apparently highly destructive Egyptian scroll from the Brooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, Joanne's aggrieved husband (David Lansbury) becomes increasingly suspicious that she's having an affair.
Strugatz's script has a few clever moments poking fun at the alien contact subculture, but is ultimately undone by its lack of subtlety and degeneration into broad sci-fi comedy. Not helping matters are the amateurish direction and the charmless performances, with even such normally reliable supporting players as Melissa Leo and Marcia Jean Kurtz floundering in their overly broad characterizations.
- 1/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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