“Last Chance Harvey”
*** RATING | The story nestled inside “Last Chance Harvey” is neither unfamiliar nor uncommon. Life is generally good, but the years chip away at onetime dreams; relationships fail or never quite happen; days are framed by a series of compromises, big and small. Dustin Hoffman’s Harvey is in danger of losing his job as a jingle writer and hurt when his daughter wants her stepfather to give her away. Emma Thompson’s Kate is a single, 40-ish survey taker at Heathrow Airport. In between meandering conversations, love begins to bloom. The usually verbal Hoffman makes great use of silence and restraint, patient in unexpected moments, standing back to allow Kate time to feel. PG-13. 1 hour, 40 minutes. Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post
“Push”
* 1/2 RATING | Dakota Fanning stars in this comic-book-inspired thriller about mind readers and mind benders, people with telekinetic powers given to them by the government in some demented effort to create walking, talking human weapons. It’s a confusing mash-up of every movie or TV show you’ve ever seen about telekinesis. Fanning plays Cassie, a 13- year-old “watcher,” somebody who can see the future and sketch it out on her note pad. She shows up at the Hong Kong door of a “mover” played by Chris Evans. He’s been expecting her. His dad, a watcher, told him to look for her 10 years ago. And here she is, perky, punky and ready to bring down the bad guys. PG-13. 1 hour, 48 minutes. Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel
“Knowing”
1/2 RATING | Nicolas Cage plays John Koestler, an MIT astrophysicist whose son comes home with a slip of paper he took from a newly opened time capsule. It’s covered with numbers. And Dad starts to see patterns in the number sequence 09112996. He breaks the code, sees other disasters in sync with other numbers. And then he finds the dates of disasters that haven’t happened yet.PG-13. 1 hour, 50 minutes. Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel
More Releases
Available today
onvideo.org
