Now we’re talkin’ – it’s late September and once again we have some fine movie choices in the theaters:
- Meet the Patels, a heartwarming crowd-pleaser – a documentary that’s funnier than most fictional comedies.
- 99 Homes, a riveting psychological drama about the foreclosure crisis with searing performances by Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon.
- The excellent true life crime drama Black Mass with Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton and a brilliant cast.
- Going Clear: The Prison of Belief, documentarian Alex Gibney’s devastating expose of Scientology, originally shown on HBO and now in theaters.
My DVD/Stream of the Week is the hilariously dark Argentine comedy Wild Tales. It’s available on DVD from Netflix and streaming from Amazon Instant Video, iTunes, Vudu and Xbox Video.
On September 28, Turner Classic Movies brings us that paragon of madcap comedies, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); Cary Grant leads a cast that is perfect, right down to Jack Carson as Officer O’Hara, the new cop on the beat.