That’s totally Daniel Craig enjoying a post-coitus cigarette with another dude in the above photo, taken from one of this week’s multitudinous home entertainment goodies, Love Is The Devil. We’ve also got Scarlett Johansson in the cray cray action flick Lucy, cute European boys coming to grips with their sexuality in Silent Youth, and… well, let’s just dive in shall we?
($34.99 Blu-ray, $29.99 DVD; Universal)
Scarlett Johansson turns super-brained superhuman when dosed with an experimental mind-expanding chemical in this gonzo action film from French director Luc Besson. Morgan Freeman appears as the science-y guy explaining what’s happening, not that it matters since it’s totally cray cray. Extras include a pair of making-of featurettes.
($24.99 DVD; Ariztical)
A pair of young, good-looking men in Berlin, Kirill and the supposedly straight Marlo, form a connection in this observational character drama.
(VOD)
One of John Waters’ top 10 films of 2014, this Sundance Film Festival pick reconstructs harrowing plane dramas based upon actual black box recordings.
($27.99 Blu-ray, $24.99 DVD; Strand)
A pre-Bond Daniel Craig played the rough trade, thieving gay lover of prickly painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) in director John Maybury’s underseen 1998 biopic, here re-mastered and presented on Blu-ray (with a Craig-centric cover). That full-frontal bath scene never looked better. Definitely worth a watch, and not just for that! Extras include a commentary.
($21.99 DVD; Paramount)
In William H. Macy’s directorial debut, Billy Crudup plays a father who, in the wake of his singer-songwriter son’s untimely demise, finds salvation through playing the boy’s music. Co-stars Macy and real life spouse Felicity Huffman alongside Selena Gomez (who also performs a song), Laurence Fishburne, and Anton Yelchin.
ALSO OUT:
Dick: The Documentary
The End of Cruising
White Bird In a Blizzard
The Zero Theorem
The Mule
Ladbrook
Love is the Devil is the best of the bunch on this list. It’s fantastic… highly recommended.
Cam
Lucy sounded like a good idea, but just got very stupid. She was too powerful and it just got kind of boring.
MarionPaige
Lucy makes you want to watch Limitless because nearly every review of Lucy mentions that movie. Lucy has some really great visuals, much better than Limitless.
A minor little point is the way Scarlett Johansson speaks after her brain kicks into high gear. She speaks in this very slow deliberate manner as if there is so much going on in her head that she is consciously trying not to be overwhelmed by it all. A lesser actor would probably had taken the opposite approach. BTW, i read that Limitless (Bradley Cooper) is being turned into a tv series.