Watch This Week’s Movies: May 8, 2013 video online. News and opinion video from The NYTimes including breaking news, investigative reporting, national and international coverage
Lots of recent theatrical films have made their way to DVD and Blu-ray this week, led by “Jack Reacher, 
From ”Gatsby” to ”Man of Steel” to ”The Wolverine” to ”Grown Ups 2”: Art suitable for framing — or shaming
Special effects date back to the dawn of film, but with today’s tools moviemakers can put pretty much anything on-screen — which has NPR film critic Bob Mondello thinking about how movie style affects movie substance.
Film festival favorites offer an alternative to the typical action-packed summer films.
Many movies treat female characters as little more than tools to advance male-dominated plots. See for yourself with a simple three-part test
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Roger Corman’s campy B movies, children’s shows like “Sesame Street” and “Inspector Gadget,” and inspirational monologues by celebrities — these are among the offerings on 30 channels that will soon require a paid monthly subscription on YouTube.
Filmmaker Sean Casey and the Vortex2 severe weather researchers put themselves in the center of “Tornado Alley.†Africa, Antarctica, frontier America and more star in this year’s Omnifest, the spring festival of giant-screen films at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
“Girls” Season 2 is heading to Blu-Ray, DVD and digital download, and Access Hollywood has exclusive details about the release, and a first look at a very funny deleted scene, set to feature on the package.
It’s a superhero kind of summer, even without Batman among the costume-clad characters hitting screens. The fun thing, unless you’re a studio, is not knowing which of these movies is going to be a blockbuster and which just a bust.