September 16th, 2025 by Aaron Neuwirth
Coming in December: Return to Reason, four swirling surrealist dreams from Man Ray, set to an ethereal score by SQÜRL; Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Bombay’s teeming street life; Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, an eccentric 1980s pop-culture comedy touchstone directed by Tim Burton; and David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee’s ecstatic documentary capturing the transcendent power of song. Plus: His Girl Friday, directed by […]
August 15th, 2018 by Aaron Neuwirth
This November, the Criterion Collection will present Orson Welles’s elegiac second feature, The Magnificent Ambersons, in its first-ever Blu-ray release, an edition packed with supplemental features. Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis star in Billy Wilder’s gender-bending Some Like It Hot, a pinnacle of Hollywood comedy, appearing in a new 4K restoration. David Byrne explores the wild, wild […]
April 9th, 2013 by Aaron Neuwirth
If someone were to ask me what one of the quirkiest premises for a movie was, I would probably respond with the plot for This Must Be the Place, a comedy-drama, which stars Sean Penn as a retired rock star who goes on a mission to find a Nazi criminal. For those who just said, […]
June 19th, 2011 by Gerard Iribe
All good things must come to an end, so here is the final Blu-ray music review brought to you by Why So Blu and Eagle Rock Entertainment. It is the David Byrne concert documentary entitled Ride, Rise, Roar. Yes, that is the same David Byrne of Talking Heads fame. His solo performance has been given […]
