This week on The Movie Gourmet – a new review of the charming dramedy Tokyo Cowboy, opening in the Bay Area at the Lark. The fall movies are beginning to cascade into theaters and VOD, and I hope to screening FOUR new movies in the next few days.
CURRENT MOVIES
- Thelma: too proud to be taken. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Perfect Days: intentional contentment. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango, Hulu (included).
- How to Come Alive: addicted to his own turmoil. In theaters.
- Didi: learning to get out of his own way. In theaters.
- Between the Temples: prodded out of his funk. In theaters.
- Hit Man: who knew self-invention could be so fun? Netflix.
- I Saw the TV Glow: brimming with originality. Back in some theaters and Amazon, AppleTV; Fandango.
- The Bikeriders: they ride, drink and fight, and yet we care. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango, Peacock (included).
- Ghostlight: a family saves itself, in iambic pentameter. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango (included).movie of Truman Capote’sresearch and wrting of In Cold Blood,
- Challengers: three people and their desire. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- La Chimera: six genres for the price of one. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
ON TV
On September 30, Turner Classic Movies presents Capote, the 2005 story of Truman Capote’s research and writing of In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman won his Oscar for playing Capote. Capote was the first time I noticed, Clifton Collins, Jr., who is great as the killer Perry Smith.