Wow, what a surprise, Gruncle and Nephew watched some bleak and emotionally draining cinema to kick off March Movie Month. At least the duo's playful buffoonery is able to keep things from getting too dark. For the first week of the new month, Gruncle and Nephew discuss Takashi Miike's samurai bloodfest "13 Assassins" (2010), Ingmar Bergman doing Ingmar Bergman with "Through a Glass Darkly" (1961), Takeshi Kitano's puzzle-like "Hanabi" (1997), and Jean-Jacques Beineix's cycle of deterioration in "Betty Blue" (1986). We have to start picking some more uplifting, less upsetting films...
