From the Big Screen:
“Queen & Slim” and “Dark Waters.” For more information on other releases this week, see the Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases.
This Week’s Best Bet
“Kansas City” (1996): Returning to the city of his birth for inspiration, legendary maverick director Robert Altman helms an evocative, bullet-riddled tribute to the music and movies of his youth in this Depression-era gangster flick as only he could make one. Blondie O’Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh) resorts to desperate measures when her low-level hood husband
Buzzin’ the ‘B’s:
In “Carol of the Bells” (2019), starring RJ Mitte, Lee Purcell, Andrea F. Friedman, Yuly Mireles, Donna Pescow and Donna Mills, a young man with a troubled past seeks out his biological mother, only to have his world turned upside down upon discovering that she’s developmentally disabled. Unable to work through this new discovery on his own, the man’s wife takes matters into her own hands, forcing her husband to face the truth and heal the past. From High Octane Pictures … In “Wakefield Project” (2019), starring Anthony Bewlz, Dennis Andres and Lindsay Seim, the little town of Wakefield, founded by a man whose post-mortem crimes stained the entire town, becomes the center of a temporary shift in atmospheric energies when unprecedented solar flares target North America. For 24 hours, the living find the dead walking among them. From High Octane Pictures.
Foreign Films:
Based on real events, French filmmaker François Ozon’s drama “By the Grace of God” (2018 — France) is a compelling and urgent account of a group of survivors who band together to expose and dismantle the French Catholic Church’s code of silence surrounding Pastoral abuse. The film tells the story of three adult men — Alexandre (Melvil Poupaud), François (Denis Ménochet) and Emmanuel (Swann Arlaud) —- who come together to expose the code of silence that continues to enable the priest who abused them as
For the Family:
In the animated family film “Playmobil the Movie” (2019), with the voices of Daniel Radcliffe, Jim Gaffigan, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Kenan Thompson and Meghan Trainor, a top-secret organization has caused citizens from different lands to vanish into thin air. When her younger brother Charlie also unexpectedly disappears into the magical, animated universe of Playmobil, unprepared Marla must team up with the dashing and charismatic secret agent Rex Dasher (Radcliffe) and the smooth-talking food truck driver Del (Gaffigan) to rescue them. Against unthinkable odds, the trio go on a fantastic journey across stunning new worlds as they gather clues for their rescue mission. As they venture through the mythical world of Playmobil, their journey leads to unlikely friendships and exhilarating challenges that must be overcome against all odds. Based on the global, multi-billion-dollar toyline. From Universal.
Special Interest:
All DVDs and Blu-rays are screened on a reference system consisting of an Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray Disc Player w/SACD & DVD-Audio, a Rotel RSX-972 Surround Sound Receiver, and Phase Technology 1.1 (front), 33.1 (center), and 50 (rear) speakers, and Power 10 subwoofer.