A blind gay boy in love, a comedian in crisis, and a little orphan named Annie make up this week in home entertainment.
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($32.99 Blu-ray, $27.99 DVD; Strand)
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A major hit on the LGBT film festival circuit finally arrives on home video. Brazilian teenager Leo has been blind since birth, but when a new student, Gabriel, shows up at his school and becomes a friend, his eyes are truly opened to something new and special. A genuinely sweet gay coming-of-age romance tale. Extras include a behind the scenes featurette, deleted scenes, cast and crew interview and the short film that helped launch the feature.
($38.99 Blu-ray, $30.99 DVD; Sony)
The evergreen Annie musical gets a 21st Century, multi-cultural redux starring Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Cameron Diaz. We can leave it at that, right? Extras include a commentary, featurettes, bloopers, deleted “Something Was Missing” performance by Jamie Foxx, music video and more.
($39.99 Blu-ray, $29.99 DVD; Paramount)
Chris Rock’s latest outing as writer/director is meta, satirical, and at times cutting — and far more accessible and funny than Birdman. Rock plays Andre Allen, a comedic actor whose struggle to stay sober — and disdain for his signature hit film franchise — has somehow deprived him of the ability to be funny. When he’s interviewed by a New York Times reporter (Rosario Dawson) about his hot mess of a dramatic slave movie and upcoming marriage to a reality TV star, for a full day and night, everything comes to a head. Great cameos from the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, and Whoopi Goldberg add to the fun and poignancy. Extras include a commentary, featurettes, deleted scenes, outtakes and more.
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Ronbo
Sounds like a good week to re-watch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. When is the LP out?
Ronbo
Sing it … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNbp0u8WjA
Bob LaBlah
Thank you, Queerty. I just watch the complete movie “The Way He Looks”. It was pretty good too. Many postings of the movie have been deleted by youtube but if you keep clicking you will get the one that missed the ax.
ingyaom
Wasn’t “Annie” supposed to have been one of the worst films of last year (and it’s not gay), so what’s it doing here?
Billy Budd
I am proud of The Way He Looks, a Brazilian movie. My native country.
Blackceo
@ingyaom:
They don’t just put gay films in there. Top Five isn’t gay either.
The Way He Looks was so good. I loved it.
martinbakman
@Bob LaBlah: I purchased a legal copy of The Way He Looks. It’s a great movie.
Not really interested in Annie.
Bob LaBlah
@martinbakman: Once upon a time I used to go the “legal” purchase route but once I retired (over-the-road truck driver, seriously) I now had the time to actually go see movies in the theatre and buy what I thought I wanted to have. One day talking to a Ms. Know-it-all (that I had ignored for YEARS) in a bar I found out how damn near EVERYTHING I had bought was FREE online. All I had to do was just like I did yesterday, which was go on youtube, put the title in the search bar and sit back and wait.
She also told me to google search porn titles because if it was ever MADE, there was 99.5% chance it was on a free porn site. All I had to do was adjust to the quality of the video and viola, instant free porn too. What gets me about the title “The Way He Looks” is how the one in Vietnamese (I assume that was the asian language that keep popping up in the subtitles) was overlooked by the censors but the American versions all got deleted. Things that make you go hmmmmm.