New on DVD: Acquaint yourself with cringe comedy 'Friendship'
Published in Entertainment News
A sketch comedian making a feature-length outing tops the DVD releases for the week of Aug. 5.
"Friendship": Tim Robinson, the namesake of Netflix's off-kilter “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson," stars as a man who strikes up a friendship with his neighbor (Paul Rudd) and from there, things get awkward.
"Paul Rudd and Jason Segel dissected the nature of adult male friendships in 2009's 'I Love You, Man,' and Rudd is back exploring similar terrain in 'Friendship,' which plays like a cracked mirror version of the former film," writes Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips in his review. "The igniting agent here is Tim Robinson, the sketch comedy oddball who has made his Netflix series 'I Think You Should Leave' an uproariously funny piece of outsider art. Robinson, in his first feature film starring role, brings such an absurd, wild-card presence that he turns 'Friendship' into its own demented, extended 'I Think You Should Leave' sketch, stretched to feature length and ramped up for maximum awkwardness."
NEW ON DVD AUG. 5
"Barron's Cove": A man with a violent past kidnaps the child (son of a powerful area politician) he believes is responsible for his own kid's death in this thriller.
"Neighborhood Watch": Jack Quaid and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star in this offbeat crime thriller in which a man thinks he witnesses a woman being abducted off the street and looks to his neighbor for help when the police turn him away.
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World": Newly restored and remastered 4K Ultra HD release of filmmaker Peter Weir's high-seas epic following the exploits of Russell Crowe's Captain "Lucky Jack" Aubrey as the English fight the French during the Napoleonic Wars.
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