The successful period thriller The Two Faces of January sets a dark-hearted and shadowy story in sunny Greece. The Two Faces of January is in theaters and also available streaming on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube, Google Play and Xbox Video.
Also in theaters:
- The poignant and compelling documentary Last Days in Vietnam with its story of folly, desperation and heroism.
- The startling documentary Art and Craft, about an art fraud of prolific scale by a diagnosed schizophrenic.
- The exceptionally well-acted dramedy The Skeleton Twins contains several inspired moments.
I also recommend The One I Love – a relationship romance, a dark comedy and a modern-day episode of The Twilight Zone rolled into one successful movie. It remains available streaming from Amazon Instant, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube, Google Play and Xbox Video.
My DVD/Stream of the Week is the funniest movie of the year, the Canadian comedy The Grand Seduction. It’s a MUST SEE howler. The Grand Seduction is available on DVD from Netflix and streaming from Amazon Instant, YouTube, Google Play and Xbox Video.
There’s a varied set of classics on Turner Classic Movies this week.
- On October 21, there’s the especially nasty noir Detour, in which poor Tom Neal is practically eaten alive by Ann Savage as perhaps the most venal and vicious of film noir’s femmes fatale.
- On the 22nd there’s one of my favorite manly adventure sagas, The Vikings from 1958; a one-eyed Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis bare their chests over Janet Leigh and swill mead with full-bearded Ernest Borgnine – it’s rip-roaring and silly and just a whole lot of fun.
- Then on October 23, TCM airs the chilly Nicole Kidman ghost story The Others from 2001.
