On Demand Weekly

The Movies On Demand MOD January Preview of The Indies has arrived. Highlights of the new release schedule for January, 2012 include PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES, DIRTY GIRL, HELL AND BACK AGAIN, THE OTHER F WORD and more. People who missed these highly-regarded titles can catch them on demand in January.

Almost every indie new release listed comes to Movies On Demand either before or the same day as DVD.

Enjoy On Demanding this month!


Indie Titles:

THE GUARD – Premieres January 3
R, Comedy
Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle

Same day as DVD


PERFECT SENSE – Premieres January 6
TV-MA, Drama
Ewan McGregor, Eva Green

Before theatrical release


BENEATH THE DARKNESS – Premieres January 6
PG-13, Thriller
Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller

Same day as theatrical release


THERE BE DRAGONS – Premieres January 10
PG-13, Drama
Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley

Same day as DVD, Weeks before Netflix & Redbox


HIGHER GROUND – Premieres January 10
R, Drama
Vera Farmiga, John Hawkes

Same day as DVD


DIRTY GIRL – Premieres January 17
R, Comedy
Juno Temple, Jeremy Dozier

Same day as DVD

On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand and from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: THE OTHER F WORD (Oscilloscope Labs).

THE OTHER F WORD

By Chris Claro

Punk rock has always been about rebellion: sticking it to the man, telling society to go to hell, making sure that people just don’t understand, man! At its core, punk is anti-authoritarian, anti-government, anti-establishment, not the environs for such bourgeois pursuits as parenthood – “Father knows best? Father knows nothing!”

But even punks grow up, despite their attempts to the contrary. And no matter how hard they may have moshed or how badly they courted attention with choices in hair, ink, and accessories, punks age just as the rest of us do, and with age often comes the desire for something more fulfilling, something more than where to go eat after a gig. That something, as many of us squares know, is fatherhood.

THE OTHER F WORD, produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, is a rollicking doc about what happens when punks become parents. Though it sounds like the idea for a bad pilot starring Michael Rappaport and Jason Lee, THE OTHER F WORD is funny, insightful, and even touching, as it plays up the ironic dichotomy of post-40 punkers who need to maintain their bad-ass stage cred even though most of them are toast-making homebodies who find it increasingly difficult to go on tour.

Blaugrund traces the rise of punk in southern California, through the recollections of everyone from Flea to Art Alexakis to Mark Hoppus.