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God's Pocket [Blu-ray]
(John Slattery, 2014)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Shoestring Pictures Video: Ar row Video
Disc: Region: 'B' (as verified by the Oppo Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:28:27.041 Disc Size: 23,546,403,125 bytes Feature Size: 22,061,543,424 bytes Video Bitrate: 29.77 Mbps Chapters: 12 Case: Standard UK thick Blu-ray case Release date: January 12th, 2015
Video: Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio English 1735 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1735 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Subtitles: None
Extras: • Deleted Scenes (2:47) • Trailer (2:12)
Bitrate:
Description: A film by John Slattery, Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro and Eddie Marsan. Mickey (Philip Seymour-Hoffman) makes ends-meet by partaking in petty crime and gambling, with his friend Arthur (John Turturro), and then spending most of it in the local flea-pit bar before stumbling home to his long-suffering wife Jeanie (Christina Hendricks). When his mentally unstable step-son, Leon, is killed by a co-worker on a construction site - a crime that is quickly covered up and explained away as an 'accident', nobody in the depressed blue collar neighbourhood of God's Pocket is particularly sorry, except of course his own mother. Mickey tries to bury the bad news along with the body, but when Jeanie demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a struggle between a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please and a debt he can't pay. *** When Mickey's stepson Leon is killed in a construction "accident," Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when the boy's mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck between a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please, and a debt he can't pay
The Film: Actor-turned-film-maker John Slattery – the silver-fox ad director Roger Sterling from TV's Mad Men – makes a very accomplished directorial debut with a film featuring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances. It is a violent, deadpan seriocomic drama of wiseguys and stupid guys all up in each other's business; the story, tangled and clotted with its own loose ends, is set in a small east-coast town called God's Pocket in the early 80s, which Slattery represents with a subdued visual palette of chocolate browns, yellows and ochres. Excerpt from The Guardian located HERE
In one of his final film roles, a typically rumpled and sympathetic
Philip Seymour Hoffman anchors the black comedy “God’s Pocket.”
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. God's Pocket gets a fairly strong single-layered transfer to Blu-ray from Arrow Films. It has a high bitrate but the film appearance is less-impressive with many dark-lit scenes (bars, bedrooms etc.). The 1080P supports solid contrast exhibiting healthy black levels and occasional minor depth in the 2.39:1 frame. It's pristinely clean showcasing some hi-def detail in a few close-ups and there are really no flaws with the rendering. This Blu-ray probably looks like exactly the theatrical version of the film God's Pocket. Pretty tame visually but no complaints.
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Audio :The Arrow transfer is a DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround at 1735 kbps. The film has a modest amount of aggression but the appealing score by Nathan Larson (Margin Call, The Messenger, Lilya 4-ever) supports the film well via the lossless. There are no subtitles and my Oppo has identified it as being a region 'B'-locked.
Extras : Hardly anything - a couple of minutes of deleted scenes and a trailer. I guess there isn't much more to say.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze December 29th, 2014
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