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Review: LAY THE FAVORITE Plays it Disappointingly Safe

Let me begin with a slight word of defense on behalf of Stephen Frears' Lay the Favorite: The movie isn't as scorn-worthy and unpleasant as most reviews will likely make it sound. It's a perfectly harmless, casually watchable, movie-of-the-week type...

Blu-ray Review: Two With Cusack, GROSSE POINTE BLANK Turns 15 and HIGH FIDELITY Goes Blu

[Correction: In the original post, I mistakenly added that High Fidelity was turning 15 this year. It's in fact celebrating 12 years since its debut.]It's some kind of curious emotion-response loop to feel nostalgia for two movies created for and...