This week on The Movie Gourmet – a new review of the irresistible family psychological documentary Sam Now, which begin streaming on June 6. And I warn you away from 32 Sounds – check out the better movies below.
Note that the wonderful documentary about writer Bob Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb, Turn Every Page, is now widely available to stream.
CURRENT MOVIES
- BlackBerry: woulda, coulda, shoulda. In theaters.
- The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic: wow – laughs, thrills, love. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Being Mary Tyler Moore: you might just make it after all. HBO.
- Sam Now: a mystery solved…and more questions. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, beginning June 6.
- Turn Every Page: two masters, two obsessives. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, redbox.
- Dealing with Dad: two serious topics in an ok comedy. In theaters.
- Rodeo: roller coaster on two wheel. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu.
- Little Richard: I Am Everything: never denying his identity, but renouncing it. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Fanny: The Right to Rock: triple threat trailblazers. PBS.
- Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song: a reflective artist, a reflective movie. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, redbox.
- Jews of the Wild West: desperadoes, cowpunchers…and Jews. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Lost King: not all cranks are cranky. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Living: what is it to live? Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- A Dark, Dark Man: rounding up the usual suspects in Kazakhstan. MHz.
WATCH AT HOME
The most eclectic watch-at-home recommendations you’ll find ANYWHERE:
- Levinsky Park: refuge for refugees? Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube.
- The Speed Cubers: odd, and then profound. Netflix.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: 5 million orange-toothed critters and a Cajun octogenarian. Amazon, AppleTV.
- Satan & Adam: more than an odd couple. Amazon, AppleTV.
- The 11th Green: a thinking person’s paranoid conspiracy. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Wave: Everything you want in a disaster movie. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Magallanes: some wrongs cannot be righted. AppleTV.
ON TV
On June 7, TCM airs the 1933 submarine movie Hell Below. It’s a pretty contrived Robert Montgomery vehicle, but there are some elements worth fast-forwarding to. The comic relief is provided by Jimmy Durante, who plays the ship’s cook Ptomaine; Baby Boomers tend to remember Durante for his shtick on variety shows of the 1950s and 1960s – here’s the unadulterated Durante. Durante even boxes with a kangaroo!
Hell Below also features Walter Huston, who was a major star at the time and who, with his naturalistic acting style and relatability, I think would be a star today. Madge Evans plays the love interest, and Durante is joined by the bullfrog-voiced Eugene Pallette.
