DVD
Edge of Darkness. The finest thriller ever made for the small screen finally comes to home video. So far ahead of its time that a quarter-century later it’s still on the cutting edge.
Movies
The Damned United. This fourth collaboration between actor Michael Sheen and screenwriter Peter Morgan is so good, it actually got me to care about soccer. Fine, football. Happy now?
The Informant! A tricky tone nailed from the outset in a different kind of whistleblower story.
Julia. A crime drama like no other you’ll see this year. Tilda Swinton gives a titanic performance as a hardcore self-destructive alcoholic making one bad decision after another.
A Serious Man. The Coen Brothers’ latest is part autobiography, part modern retelling of The Book of Job, and the best movie I’ve seen all year.
Vince Keenan is a contributor to the Noir City Sentinel, the journal published by the Film Noir Foundation. He writes about popular culture at his blog, VinceKeenan.com.
What a collection. I do/ did love Edge Of darkness though I haven't sen it since it was fisrt on telly.
EDGE OF DARKNESS was the only other network daytime soap-serial, along with DARK SHADOWS, to get syndicated repeats after its run. That says something about its staying power…though I gather it got more pedestrial after Henry Slesar left.
Todd: Edge of Darkness is a six-part BBC serial. Henry Slesar worked on Edge of Night.