‘Starship Troopers’ deserves another look, plus the week’s best films in L.A.
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Let’s get right to the best rep-house screenings around Los Angeles this week. ‘Ordinary People’ Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton in the movie “Ordinary People.” (Academy Museum) The Academy Museum will screen a new 35mm print of 1980’s “Ordinary People” on Sunday. The feature directing debut of Robert Redford, the film won four Oscars, including best picture and director. An intense drama about a family torn apart by grief, the film’s austere restraint makes it a haunting experience with powerful performances, in particular from Mary Tyler Moore, who turns her sunny star persona inside out. In his original review, Charles Champlin lauded Redford for making the film, noting, “As an intimate and demanding family drama (demanding on the creator and on the audience), it was both a brave choice and a wise one. … It was also an admirable choice, using the power and prerequisites of Redford’s stardom to bring into being the kind …

