The Chicago Park District has unveiled their lineup for 2013’s Movies in the Park, featuring 195 screenings of everything from classic oldies to modern box office hits. Photo Credit: Getty Images
Mini-movies, essentially commercials for homes on the market have been successfully used to sell $3 million-plus homes in the city. More will be coming soon to YouTube and other websites.
Don’t forget the napkins when you watch a DVD in Brazil.
This month’s column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, “Monsieur Verdoux”; Laurence Olivier’s stunning “Richard III”; and the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler, “The Thief of Bagdad.” *
Movies in the Parks Park District releases full schedule
RESEARCHERS HAVE turned conventional DVDs into portable and cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries, and are now adapting their prototype into a workable medical device. A team led by Aman Russom of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has demonstrated proof-of-concept for the tool by testing for HIV.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Marion Cotillard’s beefy co-star in Rust and Bone , stars in a brooding rural crime saga from Belgium, playing a cattle farmer who deals in illegal growth hormones. Â Â Â Â
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Steven Soderbergh claims he is retiring from directing this year
Shenzhen, Guangdong (China Daily/ANN) – Short movies from China are to make their debut on TV overseas in September, with the broadcasting and online distribution rights for about 30 shorts bought by a British company.
Gerard Butler hits rock bottom – even after the execrable The Ugly Truth – as a Scottish former footballer who is divorced from his soppy wife (Jessica Biel) and longs to connect with his son. So he agrees to coach his child’s soccer (it’s set in small-town USA) team, whereupon a legion of mothers (Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones) hit on the smirking lunk