It’s a two and two week — two mainstream titles and two art titles (there’s a flood of art titles just now), and all in all, it looks like the art titles are the better deal, though it’s just possible that one of the mainstreamers will be a pleasant surprise. The other one? Far less likely. In fact, it’s so less likely that no one booked the lesser one after all. However, something else is!
Author: Ken Hanke
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Chernobyl Diaries
The Duck Hunter
Bernie
The Hindenburg
Mad Love / The Black Cat
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler May 30-June 5: Bernie and the Undefeated DD Huntsman UPDATED
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: The Strangest Serial Ever Made
I’d seen The Lost City once before, so I knew just how seriously deranged it was, but it had been a while. So this past weekend I decided to check it out a little — mostly to be sure it played OK, which is often a dicey proposition on these public domain titles. That’s really all I planned on doing. Honest. And I know that these things tend to become wearisome if you watch too much of one in one sitting. (The rule should be two episodes max.) Imagine my surprise when I ended up watching all four hours worth of barely coherent and totally unhinged nonsense.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler May 23-29: Best Exotic Chernobyl Men in Black
Only three movies come our way this week. Two of them look … well, pretty grim — or so it seems to me. The third is something else altogether — and something that does much to make up for the other two. Some may disagree.
Mississippi
The Man and the Monster
The Dictator
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Siberia, Monamour
The Young Victoria
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler May 16-22: Battleship Dictator of Life
So this week we get three mainstream releases, one art film, and one classic. Looking over the crop, I’d have to say that the classic is almost certainly the best of the lot. Unfortunately, it only has one showing.