Tech: New Blu – ray explores secret ‘Avengers’ shawarma scene
The Avengers did more than just rule the box office last year. They also proved to be a boost for America’s shawarma eateries.
The Avengers did more than just rule the box office last year. They also proved to be a boost for America’s shawarma eateries.
This month’s column looks at the international blockbuster “Les Misérables”; Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty”; Fritz Lang’s “Ministry of Fear”; “Life and Death of Colonel Blimp”; a Bea Lillie comedy, “On Approval”; and the documentary “Hands on a Hardbody.”
Raucous parties in Jamaica are often filmed, and the footage is sold to Jamaicans abroad who are nostalgic for the sights, sounds and thumping bass lines of home.
David O Russell’s Oscar-winning comedy stands out from the Hollywood crowd by having a polished and punchy screenplay, rather than acres of self-indulgent improv, and a hero (Bradley Cooper) who has genuine mental-health issues, rather than simply being an arrested adolescent.
BORN TO RACE Directed by Alex Ranarivelo Starring Joseph Cross, John Pyper-Ferguson, Brando Eaton Distributed by Speedy Video Distributors
Two late masterpieces from Luis Buñuel — “Tristana†(1970) and “That Obscure Object of Desire†(1977) — come to Blu – ray in restored versions.
The online Google Play store has rolled out access to movies to rent or buy for users in India and Mexico.Â
Frustrated Alma is going through ch-ch-changes in the parochial hinterlands of Norway.
London looks positively post-apocalypse in this damning look at Thatcher’s Britain, and the C4 series is a little dated.
