Director Swab handles this all with due dispatch and an ability that’s a hair or two above what you’d call mere competence. But a reckoning seems to be in the offing. It’s a hardscrabble life for sure, and Perlman’s character is still overseeing it. Playing a grownup criminal street urchin isn't a stretch for Pitt, and so he does that routine, with adult Peaches, now played by Dree Hemingway, with shaved head and a semi-goth strip-club get-up for working hours. Hell, maybe it’s really just the “ Bugsy Malone” variant of “ Where The Day Takes You.”Īt the halfway point, cute-as-a-button Oscar becomes Michael Pitt Oscar. Remember how The Catcher In The Rye opens with Holden Caulfield telling the therapist (or caseworker, who ever it is) that he doesn’t wanna bore him with any “ David Copperfield crap?” With Peaches, “Run with the Hunted” gets into Great Expectations crap, with Oscar joining a group of street urchins overseen by grizzly man Mark Boone, Jr., who is himself overseen by moderately smoother crime underboss Ron Perlman. Secreting himself in the back of a milk truck, he escapes to The Big City, where he’s briefly detained and then bounced into the street where he meets a new girl best friend, Peaches. “You see, Oscar, there comes a time when a man’s gotta step up.” Oscar, played in his boyhood incarnation by Mitchell Paulson, takes that directive a little too much to heart by killing the abusive father of his best friend Loux. Aren’t you glad you asked? The briefly happy kid is Oscar, who’s soon quizzed by his dad William Forsythe about the sermon he heard in church that day. Well, there’s a flashback, to blue sky and small town and seemingly idyllic childhood and someone reading in voiceover from Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. So what’s going on, you’re supposed to ask. You know they’re in a “gritty urban setting” because they’re suffused with red light. The best is a two-way tie between The Ghost of Peter Sellers and Tokyo Olympiad-two documentaries that are worth checking out.This picture written and directed by John Swab has a by-now standard issue low-budget genre film opening: two desperate characters in a car, driving by night to God knows where, one of them wounded, perhaps grievously. That said, while it should entertain kids, it isn’t the best release. In fact, it is bigger than the rest of the films combined. Trolls World Tour is easily the biggest release on this week’s list. VOD Releases: Trolls Begin a New Tour on VOD On the positive side, while there are not a lot of releases on this week’s list, the hit to miss ratio is better than most weeks. It is another slow week for limited releases and, like last week, the best film, House of Hummingbird, likely won’t find an audience in theaters due to its genre. Limited and Virtual Releases: Humming a Cheerful Tune The third contender for that title is Wonder Woman: The Complete Collection ( Blu-ray). However, I will admit Orange is the New Black: The Final Season ( DVD) will have a much wider appeal and it is the Pick of the Week. The release I’m looking forward to the most is O Maidens In Your Savage Season ( Blu-ray).
RUN WITH THE HUNTED TV
On the other hand, the TV on DVD season is starting in earnest and there are several intriguing titles worth checking out, both big and small. On the one hand, there are no first-run releases to talk about. It is a deceptively slow week on the home market. New on Disc: Orange is Back One Last Time
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