This week on The Movie Gourmet – Cinequest is underway, and here’s my Cinequest 2023 coverage, including my Best of Cinequest. Plus, a new review of the Juliette Binoche workplace drama Between Two Worlds. This be the last week that you can find Christian Petzold’s Afire in theaters.
CURRENT MOVIES
- Oppenheimer: creator of a monster controlled by others. In theaters.
- Between Two Worlds: friendships on a really bad job. In theaters.
- Afire: the summer of his discontent. In arthouse theaters.
- Past Lives: a profound and refreshing romance. In theaters.
- Barbie: a marriage of the intelligent and the silly. In theaters.
- Theater Camp: show people in the making. In theaters.
- Asteroid City: deadpan, witty, whimsical…and who cares? In theaters.
- Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed: leading man in the closet. HBO Max.
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: just a whole lotta fun. In theaters.
- No Hard Feelings: an amusement with Jennifer Lawrence. In theaters and can be purchased on Amazon, Vudu YouTube..
WATCH AT HOME
The most eclectic watch-at-home recommendations you’ll find ANYWHERE:
- The Imposter: a jaw dropper. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Land Ho!: rowdy geezer roadtrip to Iceland. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Beast: finally unleashed … and untethered. Amazon (included with Prime), AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, redbox.
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: gentleness from ferocity. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, redbox.
- The Secret in Their Eyes: Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- NUTS!: the rise and fall of a testicular empire. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Stopover: PTSD takes more than an umbrella drink…Amazon, AppleTV.
ON TV
To my delight, Turner Classic Movies often schedules Richard Lester’s boisterous The Three Musketeers, but, on August 22, is airing it with The Four Musketeers, which was filmed in the same shoot and released the next year (1974). Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York and Frank Finlay swashbuckle away against Bad Guys Christopher Lee, Faye Dunaway and Charlton Heston. Geraldine Chaplin and Raquel Welch adorn the action. These movies are a hoot.