On Demand Weekly

The Movies On Demand MOD November Preview of The Indies has arrived. Highlights of the new release schedule for November, 2011 include SARAH’S KEY, ANOTHER EARTH and THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE. People who missed these highly-regarded titles can catch them on demand in November.

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:

BELLFLOWER – Premieres November 1
R, Action
Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman

Weeks before DVD, Netflix and Redbox


SLEEPING BEAUTY – Premieres November 1
TV-MA, Drama
Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie

Before theatrical release


SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN – Premieres November 1
PG-13, Drama
Gianna Jun, Li Bingbing

Same day as DVD, Weeks before Netflix and Redbox


I MELT WITH YOU*** – Premieres November 4
R, Drama
Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven

Before theatrical release


ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART I – Premieres November 8
PG-13, Drama
Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler

Same day as DVD, Weeks before Netflix and Redbox


PETE SMALLS IS DEAD – Premieres November 11
TV-MA, Comedy
Mark Boone Junior, Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassell, Peter Dinklage, Rosie Perez, Tim Roth

Before theatrical release

On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: BEL AMI (Magnolia).

BEL AMI
By Amy Slotnick

Paris in the 1890’s was the Belle Epoque, and all about aristocrats in lush, satin dresses and top hats, dancing at arms length while teasing sexual innuendos from beneath their corsets. Or at least this is how it is portrayed in BEL AMI, the new period drama based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant.

This is the setting where we find Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson), who recently returned from serving the military and now longs to be part of the rich life. Though he is without any money or talent, he does have the good looks needed to propel him to at least get a job as a journalist. Never mind that he can’t really write and is lazy about doing work. He soon realizes he is exceptionally good at something even more valuable – seduction.

Each rich (and married) woman he encounters, becomes his for the taking. He makes his way into the bedrooms of three main characters played by Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas. One steamy sex scene after the other, results in each woman falling in love with him with Georges unwilling to return much emotion. When he learns Thurman’s husband is ill, he strategically puts himself at the deathbed’s side, ready to propose marriage the moment her husband croaks. As the marriage and story progresses Georges becomes darker, jealous and more heartless, but still lustful and vain.
 

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: WOMAN IN THE FIFTH (ATO).

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THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH

By Chris Claro

In a classic episode of THE ODD COUPLE, Felix and Oscar find themselves in court, fighting charges of ticket scalping. Once they have made their (hilarious) argument, the judge, played with wicked deadpan by Curt Conway, says “I’m going to take a minute to decide this case. Then I’m going to take another minute to see if I still want to be a judge.” I considered that scene as I endured THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH, wondering if this whole film critic thing was really for me.

Ponderous, pretentious, and seemingly endless, despite its mercifully brief running time, THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH, features Ethan Hawke (TRAINING DAY) as a failed novelist who moves to Paris to reconnect with his young daughter. Broke, friendless, and battling with his antagonistic ex, Hawke’s Tom Ricks is adrift. Hiring on to a mysterious position as a doorkeeper in what may be a drug den.

Ricks finds himself drawn to an exotic woman (Kristin Scott Thomas, THE ENGLISH PATIENT) who becomes his lover and his muse. But with the shadowy ingénue’s motives as opaque as her story, Ricks finds himself between two worlds and questioning his sanity.