“You are asking me to extinguish myself,” Latif pleads with Uday Hussein. The eldest son of despot Saddam has just asked Latif to be his body double; the soldier is understandably reluctant.
Ben Wheatley’s deeply unsettling thriller/horror begins with a flaming domestic row between mordant Jay (Neil Maskell) and Shel (MyAnna Buring).
Another Underworld film, another double-dip.
[1] Steven Spielberg’s classic Jaws will finally be released in high definition Blu-ray on August 14th 2012.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 New movies The Adventures of Tintin The gist: Steven Spielberg’s first animated movie is a 3-D CGI adaptation of an 82-year-old Belgian comic strip about a young reporter who gets into adventures way more exciting than being chained to a desk writing movie capsules all day. PG The cast: Voices of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Toby …
# hivefivecallforcontenders If you’re planning to hit the road with your Blu-ray enabled laptop for the holidays, or you just built an HTPC with a Blu-ray drive in it, your next job (after picking the movies you want to watch) is to select the Blu-ray compatible player you want to watch your movies in. This week we want to know which one you turn to for the most control over playback, the best …
Unable to kill its DVD business by separating out into Qwikster, Netflix has seems to have stumbled on a new strategy to wean new customers off their shiny disc addiction: make it pretty much impossible to find a way to sign up for a subscription. When Netflix realized it had made a mistake separating out its DVD and streaming services under two names — Netflix and Qwikster — it claimed it …
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 (UPI) — “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is the top-selling DVD and No. 1 rental in the United States, Rentrak reported Thursday.