Rubber: The AllRovi Review
For a film about a telekinetic killer tire, Rubber has a lot more going for it than just a ridiculous concept. Wunderkind filmmaker and house DJ Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr. Oizo) takes a rather thin setup and injects it with an ingenuity that is unexpected, hilarious, and refreshing. At one point you could say that the tire falls in love. Yes, Rubber goes there.
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staff picks
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While you won't be able to read about it in his recently-cancelled memoir, Billy Joel's historic concert tour of Russia in 1987 can still be seen on screen in "Billy Joel: Live From Leningrad, USSR."
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This week's release of "Rubber" brings to mind another film about an inanimate object that gets homicidal in its obsession with a woman -- "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats." Completed in 1977, it wasn't seen by audiences until 2003.
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Alain Tanner’s classic seriocomedy is one of the most original distillations of the post-1968 European zeitgeist, with its tale of eight radicals bravely, and often hilariously, swimming against the tide of conformity in 1970s Geneva.
